A few thoughts on DUI, crime, drug manufacture or sale and illegal aliens:

 Actually, the ways to deal with DUI are rather simple:

1. Make it illegal to drink any amount and drive. Simply stated, reduce the BAC level to 0.0.
2. Impound the vehicle. If convicted, auction the vehicle off, paid for or not.
3. Permanently suspend the driving privilege. For life.

The responsibility for DUI begins and ends with the driver.

Knowing these are the penalties for ANY DUI conviction would sharply reduce DUI, and end any ambivalence on the part of drivers: "Did I drink too much to drive?"

Drinking and driving at all is automatically too much.

We either want to end this problem or we don't.

And that philosophy could be applied to any criminal issue confronting us: Use a weapon in a crime, gun, knife, baseball bat?

Life in prison. No parole.

We need to make the illegal use of weapons so expensive in terms of prison time to the offender that they'd never think of using a weapon illegally for any purpose.

Illegal drugs?

Anyone involved in the manufacture, importation or distribution of any illegal drug?

Life in prison. No parole.

200,000 deaths attributed to fentanyl over the past two years. The outrage that SHOULD be evident is strangely muted. Locking people up for life that have imported or manufactured the tools for those deaths should be job one.

Illegal aliens?

Immediate deportation. End the illegal alien destination resort we've built here that brings them here by the millions. If they want to appeal deportation, they may, from outside the US.

Any illegal is automatically banned from legal residence or citizenship, ever.

Illegals are to be denied ownership of property, businesses, and/or licenses.

Illegal alien criminals serve their sentences in prisons and then are immediately deported.

Proof of citizenship or legal status needs to be required to attend schools at any level, or to get medical assistance, save to make the patient stable and then deport them.

End the bastardization of the 14th Amendment which was never meant to confer automatic citizenship to illegal aliens of the children they deliberately come here to have.

We take expensive, time-consuming and by no means guaranteed efforts to stop DUI's. PSA's abound about drinking and driving... but we effectively say it's OK to drink, just don't drink too much.

I'm pretty sure that idea is small comfort to the dead and crippled that result from such a wink, wink; nod, nod concept.

As a nation, we either want to end these issues or, at least, dramatically curtail them or we don't.

We keep doing the same things, over and over, achieving the same dismal results.

It's long since passed time to do something that will work. Doing the same things, over and over, while expecting a different outcome is insane.

How much longer do we put up with it?

When is enough, enough?