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From: cwc@mhuxd.UUCP (Chip Christ)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: re: drinking drivers
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 09:32:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 09:32:56 1984
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Eliminating laws that punish drunk drivers, whether or not they are
involved in accidents, is plain stupid.  Personally, I feel in less
danger from idiots with guns than I do from drunk drivers, although
I wouldn't care to encounter either.  Punishing someone who has wiped
out a member of my family might satisfy my base urge for revenge, but
it sure wouldn't do the departed (or me, really) any damn good.  Sure,
the law and it's implementation are imperfect, so what?  Can you name
anything conceived by human-kind that is perfect?  All I know is that
since the State of New Jersey started its hard line enforcement, all
indications are that there are a lot less drunks on the road.  Tough
shit that you don't feel free to get blotto after work if you have to
drive home, or that the bars are loosing revenue.

					Chip

p.s.	No, I am not a tea-totaler (sp?), and yes, I have driven
	after drinking, before I woke up to the fact that neither
	my life nor anyone else's is worth it.