Give them an inch...

[Father Time]

I'll declare a huge bias in this issue, having lost a loved one because some bastard was drunk while driving. In my (emotional) opinion, anyone who drinks and drives should be shot. A quick and painless death - which is much more humane than what they do to others.

Did you know that alcohol related fatalities increased after they passed the 0.08 laws? Or that this increase occurred after a few consecutive years of an actual decline in fatalities?

Did you know that correlations on their own cannot prove anything?

 

[Father Time]

I'll declare a huge bias in this issue, having lost a loved one because some bastard was drunk while driving. In my (emotional) opinion, anyone who drinks and drives should be shot. A quick and painless death - which is much more humane than what they do to others.

Did you know that alcohol related fatalities increased after they passed the 0.08 laws? Or that this increase occurred after a few consecutive years of an actual decline in fatalities?

Did you mistake me for someone who gives a damn? As far as I am concerned, you get behind a wheel having had one beer, you should go to prison for life.

Now that's just stupid.

 

[Care4all]

...they will take a mile.

A campaign to create a new category of driving while intoxicated is being promoted at the Capitol as one way to curb growing problems in Texas’ system of punishing drunken drivers.Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, among the supporters of the change, said the idea behind a new offense of “driving while ability impaired” — DWAI — would cover drivers whose blood-alcohol content is between 0.05 and 0.07.
That would be less than the 0.08 level required before police can charge a motorist with drunken driving.
A first-offense DWI is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine, plus potential driver’s license restrictions. No specific penalty has been proposed for DWAI.
Though Acevedo said he does not support lowering the DWI limit below 0.08, “the new offense would give prosecutors and judges and juries another tool to use” in thwarting impaired drivers across the state.

Austin chief pushes for new drunk driving charge

Just what we need, more ways for the government to come after people. Another reason to harass people at roadblocks, and more money for cities. On top of that, if history is anything to judge by, it will actually kill more people.

Forum: Lower DUI Threshold More Dangerous? | Radley Balko | Cato Institute: Daily Commentary

I 180 days in jail if they don't pay the $2000 fine, costs tax payers about $25,000 bucks for the jail time? sheesh

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Most people who run someone down say they're not drunk...

Maybe that is because most accidents are not caused by drunks.

Just saying.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

I'll declare a huge bias in this issue, having lost a loved one because some bastard was drunk while driving. In my (emotional) opinion, anyone who drinks and drives should be shot. A quick and painless death - which is much more humane than what they do to others.

Did you know that alcohol related fatalities increased after they passed the 0.08 laws? Or that this increase occurred after a few consecutive years of an actual decline in fatalities?

Did you know that correlations on their own cannot prove anything?

I know that, but the people who touted the .08 limit claimed it would save lives. No way am I going to try and claim changing the limit caused more accidents, but it is a fact that it did not accomplish what it was claimed it would. Honest people would look at all the facts and question why anyone really wants to lower it more.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

...they will take a mile.

A campaign to create a new category of driving while intoxicated is being promoted at the Capitol as one way to curb growing problems in Texas’ system of punishing drunken drivers.Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, among the supporters of the change, said the idea behind a new offense of “driving while ability impaired” — DWAI — would cover drivers whose blood-alcohol content is between 0.05 and 0.07.
That would be less than the 0.08 level required before police can charge a motorist with drunken driving.
A first-offense DWI is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine, plus potential driver’s license restrictions. No specific penalty has been proposed for DWAI.
Though Acevedo said he does not support lowering the DWI limit below 0.08, “the new offense would give prosecutors and judges and juries another tool to use” in thwarting impaired drivers across the state.

Austin chief pushes for new drunk driving charge

Just what we need, more ways for the government to come after people. Another reason to harass people at roadblocks, and more money for cities. On top of that, if history is anything to judge by, it will actually kill more people.

Forum: Lower DUI Threshold More Dangerous? | Radley Balko | Cato Institute: Daily Commentary

I 180 days in jail if they don't pay the $2000 fine, costs tax payers about $25,000 bucks for the jail time? sheesh

Keep posting like that an people will say you want drunk drivers to kill people.

 

[Ravi]

I'll declare a huge bias in this issue, having lost a loved one because some bastard was drunk while driving. In my (emotional) opinion, anyone who drinks and drives should be shot. A quick and painless death - which is much more humane than what they do to others.

Did you know that alcohol related fatalities increased after they passed the 0.08 laws? Or that this increase occurred after a few consecutive years of an actual decline in fatalities?

Makes sense. If they are going to bust you for such a low level, why not just get plastered?

Texass...no surprise.

 

[chanel]

Kind of warped logic ravi, but you've got a point. .05 could be one beer. Might as well have six.