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Originally Posted by **********
Just that statement alone is completely untrue, and I can prove it. I really enjoy pounding down a few too many beers, but there is no way in hell I would drive home. I *always* leave my car downtown and take a taxi home. Getting caught driving home means losing your license, paying a heavy fine, restrictions on travel, and all kinds of things.
If you drink and drive and think that the law is meaningless that does nothing to reduce drunk driving, you are wrong.
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Mark...you are one of the vast majority of people.
And like most people you don't drink too much and drive.
And you also live in a city with taxi service readily available.
The majority of towns don't have taxis everywhere.
The last place I lived before Vegas was the upstate of South Carolina.
I never even SAW a taxi in that town.
But the point I'm making is: you could have 2 beers and a shot over the course of a couple of hours. And depending on your physiology and activity level (you'd probably be sitting on a bar stool unless you're a dancing machine kind of guy) you would STILL blow a DUI and not even have a buzz when you drove.
That doesn't "save lives". It just makes the city more money and ruins your life with that DUI.
It's the small percentage of hardcore drunks whom the law is aimed at. The ones who get behind the wheel every day in a state of black-out drunk. The ones who do indeed plow into crowds of people.
And I say again...those guys NEVER are deterred by the law. I've seen them with my own two eyes. And you read about them every day.
Those DUI laws are a money making machine for local govt's. Just like motorcycle cops hiding on local streets that have ridiculous 25 mph speed limits and handing out tickets to soccer moms doing 35 mph all day long.
They aren't "saving lives", they are collecting money for the city and the insurance companies.