Posted on 01/27/2018 7:20:45 AM PST by JP1201
Yes. Ban booze!
What could possibly go wrong.
works for me. Self driving cars will solve the issue. Can we wait?
Somebody should give them a rundown on Prohibition. It failed almost 100 years ago and it would fail today. Anyone can go to the internet these days and find recipes for making alcohol.
I think they tried this. Didn’t work out to well
Rank stupidity abounds.
You can’t make the world “idiot proof”.
Another way to do this is redefine DUI to be deaths caused when BAC of the perp is above 1%. There will be zero of those events.
Just like with guns they want to blame the object rather than the actual offender. If you want to reduce drunk driving then get serious about sentencing offenders. How about this
1st offense - 6 months in jail, no exceptions
2nd offense - 2 years in prison, no exceptions
3rd offense - life in prison, no exceptions
I’m guessing people would think twice about getting behind the wheel if any of these sentences were on the table.
These people just won't quit. MADD is a prohibitionist group now. They used to educate people on the dangers of drunken-driving. Now they're just another leftist group promoting their pet cause.
Right after they cure cancer and the common cold.....oh, and globull warming....next up, ban guns to obtain a zero death-by-gun rate....
I guy they don’t know much about history.
Does anyone EVER learn anything from history???? Is it just hubris or stupidity that convinces every generation that it can do “it” better?
I guess they don’t know much about history.
Given what happened during Prohibition, that will NEVER happen. For one thing, it would require another Constituional amendment, and we know how hard it is to get another Amendment on the books....
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Would it?
All it would take would be congress amending the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 and it’s over.
THe CSA of 1970 exempted alcohol and tobacco from the definition of controlled substances... Tobacco and alcohol are exempted from drug scheduling, despite their detrimental impacts on individual health and society as a whole, due solely to economic reasons.
No constitutional amendment needed.
Man, they are just getting pot legalized and now they want to take away alcohol?
What does the NAS say about smoking pot and driving, and your lungs?
Prohibitions are back. Are we seeing a pendulum swing in American values? #me too, now this? I know as a man I am not allowed to say this but #me too. But I some how survived it. But I was raised to be emotionally tougher. I grew up as part of the sticks and stone society.
Didn’t we already try this once before?
I think I have a solution. It’s a wee bit technical. If there was a way to measure how intoxicated you were through your skin, you build a sensor into the steering wheel to detect alcohol. Over a certain percentage and the car doesn’t start.
You cannot fool it by wearing gloves. When you buy the car, you scan your fingerprint which the scanner uses every time you start the car.
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