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The soccer moms and other well-intentioned nit-wits have been played by power hungry politicians, lawyers and the judicial establishment. Those three groups have used the "useful idiots" to empower and enrich them and their professions. Take a look at the public reaction to some of the labels they have wrongly painted on to their victums..."drunk driver"..."gun-nut"..."deadbeat dad"..."cigarette smoker (okay, that one is accurate, but they may as well be calling them baby killers)." They start with a problem, crank up the fines and penalties, then broaden the amount of people tarred and feathered by making anyone who drives home after one glass of wine at dinner a potential manslaughter suspect. Anyone who owns a gun is a right wing malitia nut. Anyone who gets laid off from their job and gets behind on payments is a deadbeat dad. Anyone who smokes is trying to give cancer to everyone around him. No one wants to be involved in anything that puts you in the political cross hairs. If you're not a member one of one of the political whipping-groups, you may well be in the future.

I happen to agree with you. Don't have time to get into it in any detail, but FWIW my first wife was a c-5 quadraplegic due to a drunk driver. I utterly oppose these new draconian laws. They are about money, power, control, and vengance, not justice.