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Originally Posted by arock10
I know people who have ended up in prison from too many DUIs. Think that stopped them
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I don't know anyone who has had that happen to them. But I bet you're right.
And yeah, going to jail DOES stop them.
But the law never DETERRED them. Just like it doesn't deter anyone from doing anything.
If it did, then we would live in a perfect world.
A murderer doesn't stop murdering because of the "law". He just tried to not get caught.
My point was that the DUI laws, by and large...are a huge source of revenue for cities and traffic lawyers. Hauling people up for blowing a .08 on their way home from dinner is bullshit. It didn't save any lives, it didn't stop any "alcohol related" accidents. It's become it's very own industry.
The real habitual drunk drivers? They are still going to drive no matter if they change the law to the death penalty for drinking one swig of beer.
That's all I'm saying.
Our govt. has slowly, over the years, just gotten too powerful and too overreaching for MY taste.
They have figured out that they can pretty much do anything they want. And we won't do a thing about it.
The hundreds of millions of dollars they rake in off of people and the lives they ruin through DUI laws VS the very small number of people actually driving drunk (statistically speaking) seems to me to be like using a nuclear bomb to swat a fly.