Actually, the ways to deal with DUI are rather simple:
- Make
it illegal to drink any amount and drive. Simply stated, reduce the BAC
level to 0.0.
- Impound
the vehicle. If convicted, auction the vehicle off, paid for or not.
- 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?
