What do you think about our DUI law?
Q.I have a really great writing teacher that says that the USA's DUI limit law is ridiculous and should be raised. He uses ancedotes such as his friends getting pulled over but could walk in a straight line and touch his nose. Personally, I think he is wrong because I feel so many people can barely drive SOBER, to raise the DUI limit is encourging more people to DUI. What do you think? He also says that police only lowered it so they can catch more people to meet quota. I told him, he should not attack the law, but attack the person enfocing it. You? He is a writing teacher teaching SAT class.
A.Think about it -- ask class members if they know of anyone who has had a relative or personal friend murdered by a drunk driver or driver under the Influence. It is those stories of loss (and the memory of those special people murdered by Drivers under the Influence) that will sway the argument to make the laws even tougher. The law is not stict enough. If you consume alcohol and drive you put innocent lives at risk. No question. I have worked in emergency medicine and was an EMT years ago. I got to pull a baby's face off a windshield thanks to a drunk driver. That will make you change your mind. To that moron that said the laws are unfair, I hope no loved one of yours ever has to suffer from someone with just a .05 blood alcohol level that got a little sleepy, or had slowed reaction times. The laws themselves are unduly harse with no rehabilitation offered to the offenders. The current severe penalties are a recent phenomenon which came about from lobbying efforts of MADD. Something needed to be done, that's for sure. But making someone a felon, putting them in overcrowded facilities, letting them out, they can't get a job, get caught again ... that's ridiculous. I'll end by saying, it was while the men were away fighting WWI that the women banded together to gain the right to vote and the rallying cry was the call to outlaw alchohol. That didn't work then and the current harse laws won't work now. It would be better if a driver who is caught the first time has to have the breath lock attached to their vehicle.
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