Raising the drinking age is one prime example. So is raising the driving age. All they have done is raised the age of adulthood, of the point where people make excuses for their immaturity and bad choices. ("OK so I screwed up... I'm only 25 - give me a break!")
Worse, they have lessened the overall years of Americans' driving experience, the one sure factor that improves overall road safety: a first-time 40-year-old driver is as dangerous as a first-time 20-year-old. Every unit of time subtracted from one's lifetime driving record can only increase the frequency of accidents and deaths. (The gun lobby knows this, which is why children should be immersed in firearm safety and trained to shoot "early on", not later in life.)
One may dissect this reasoning surely, but the point is that MADD has no interest in good solutions. Much like Jesse Jackson and his ilk, they exploit emotionalism and use the politics of victimhood to further their absurd and repugnant agendas. MADD's attempts to legislate and enforce nanny-state liberalism has done nothing but perpetuate their own existence and political power.
My guess is that such was their intention all along.
(Perhaps some forum member will be so kind as to post grusome photos of burn victims and decapitation, in hopes that our empathy will dissuade all reasoning.... That often works with voters and politicians. Not with me.)
Excellent post.