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To: Luke21
We don’t punish our murderers, but give draconian penalties for drunk driving. Our punishments don’t fit the crime. We are filling up prisons with men who have a problem, and are otherwise decent men. Do you really want that?

If someone took a loaded gun out into the street and started firing at random, we would lock them up. Well, a drunk driver is no different. Drunk drivers kill innocent people at random. My wife and children are out on that street. I have no sympathy for anyone who drives while truly impaired, I'm talking about .12 or higher, not the typical .08. If you are .12 and driving, you are a killer just looking for a target of opportunity. You made the bad choice to drive and the people around you made a bad choice allowing it to happen. Bad things should happen to bad people, not innocent victims.

23 posted on 10/11/2010 7:46:10 AM PDT by CMAC51
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To: CMAC51

“If someone took a loaded gun out into the street and started firing at random, we would lock them up”

If only that were true.


26 posted on 10/11/2010 7:48:40 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: CMAC51

This argument is whether to lower the BAC level to jail even more people for drinking moderately, not about taking guns into the street and shooting them. You have been conditioned to hysteria.


47 posted on 10/11/2010 8:35:16 AM PDT by Luke21
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