I agree. I don’t drink, but .08 is too low for the legal limit.
I don’t recall the source (and am too lazy to look for it at the moment), but I remember reading something a while back that said most alcohol-related auto accidents involve a driver with at least 0.15% BAC.
I disagree. I never, ever drink and drive. If I have one beer, somebody else gets my keys. But I’ve used one of those online BAC calculators to figure out how much it would take to get me over the limit. Five beers in two hours would put me at .07, still legal to drive. I know how I feel after five beers in two hours. There’s no way I, or anybody else should be behind the wheel at that level.
That is what I have long thought. You are giving police records to basically responsible people. MADD and greedy local governments went too far. Raise it back to 1.0.
No concept of risk (magnitude x probability) and proportionality or consistency (fairness) apply. It's just like global warming, everyone knows they need to say “XYZ” on this topic. Then some Anne Frank story (the touchy feely teary eye story) is thrown around in case you do decide to think.
I have an idea. We should crucify those with a DWI on the side of the highway. Yeah, yeah, anyone have any more absurd ideas that show you're even tougher?
This small business person said, I can survive Obamacare, I can't survive MADD. In their humble opinion they ( MADD ) are a 501(c)(3) and have to continue to deliver the goods to their consituency, ergo lets drop it to .08, and someday it will be .06.
They also said you want a recession? Drop the number again, then people will stop going to resturants and buying even one beer or wine and then they will start having dinner parties @ home ( with drinks ) with not as much scrutiny by police like they do around bars/resturants and accident rates will increase and tons of wait-staff and cooks will be unemployed.. They then noted how many are employed by the food business, it was huge.
It is so un-PC for me to even post this, but this was one Opinion, ( not mine ) none the less, it is an interesting perspective, I had never heard...
I don’t drink either and agree - and I hear reports of some wanting it lower.