True. And while it is aterrible thing to have a drunk person run into someone and kill them, I don’t believe in harsh punishments for people that have not hurt anyone. This is supposed to be a free country, but by using the logic that a number of people here have used, you might as well lock anyone up who buys a drink, because they MIGHT drive drunk and hurt someone. And, applying the same standards to everyone isn’t right,either,IMHO, some people can drive safely with a lot more alcohol in them than others.Pretty harsh punishment if he hasn’t hurt anyone else.
So you would be okay with a guy drunk as a skunk walking around shooting a weapon as long as he doesn’t hit someone? Who was caught doing it 7 times ( and actually out there doing it countless times without getting caught).....
Don’t worry, they are only putting another brick in the foundation for “jailing” gun owners for buying to much ammunition because some bullets kill and injure people!
No biggie, it isn’t like the left marches on towards tyranny or anything.
And that could even make more sense.
Since alcohol impairs one's judgement, an argument could be made that a drunk person can't make a reasonable decision about driving, while a sober person can make a reasonable decision about having a drink in the first place.
I'm not advocating this, but the argument could be made.
You won't find much support here for your point of view on this. 30+ years of intensive indoctrination in favor of enforcing pre-crime laws has pretty much left a giant blind spot in the nation's psyche about such things.This blind spot has grown to such an extreme that in many jurisdictions, if you are driving and make a determination that you are impaired, and you pull off the road into a parking lot or something, to sleep it off, you can still be arrested. The nanny state doesn't care that you showed enough judgement to attempt to do the right thing. You're actually better off just trying to make it the rest of the way home because our legal system is largely run by the criminally insane.
Personally, I think it is stupid to the extreme to drink and drive, but I don't see it as criminal in and of itself unless there some actual victim. The penalty for causing actual harm, either property or personal should be pretty darn high IMO, because stupidity should be punished, but given the number of Obama voters there are out there, apparently stupidity itself is not (yet) a crime.