
Originally Posted by
C27H40O3
Actually, i dont believe in locking up folks for what they might do. The BAC limit used to be 0.15 until sometime in the 70's. It got progressively lower since then. the human body has not changed. cars have gotten safer since then. not more dangerous. what has changed to necessitate bringing the number down? Nothing that I can see. except lobbying. Mothers against drunk driving gives donations to lawmakers, and awards to cops and police departments and it has corrupted the system. The organization itself has been corrupted so much so that the original "mother" who started it has left in disgust, saying that rather than being against drunk driving, they actually have become a pro-abstinence organization, desiring to stamp out drinking all together.
They actually argue against logic that since .08 so negligibly affects folks driving ability, that we should have more checkpoint to catch folks. They completely miss the fact that if .08 doesnt have a tangible effect on driving, then we are needlessly criminalizing a generation of folks.
Because many law abiding citizens can get caught up in that bureaucratic swamp and get denied. You got stressed with your mother twenty years ago as a teenager, maybe your father or someone else just died. You get checked into a hospital psych ward to get your thoughts together. Thats all it takes. no guns for the rest of your life.