Ending the problem of drinking and driving.

Each year, thousands of Americans (and others) are killed/maimed by drunk drivers. And yet, as a country, we do nothing about it that actually works.

Most recently here locally, this is one of the results of this nation's obvious indifference to our plight.

In this instance, according to the accompanying the article from the Vancouver, WA Police Department, one pedestrian died at the scene and another died a few days later.

The DUI driver was charged with DUI, Vehicular Homicide, Vehicular Assault, and Reckless Driving'

He'll get a few years and a fine, if that. Run someone over/hit another car and kill someone with your car? It's "vehicular manslaughter."

Pull up next to them and use a gun? It's murder.

The outcomes are the same.

To me, there's no difference. Also, to me, I support making it illegal to drive after you've drank ANY alcohol... and you should be tried for attempted murder if you do.

We message everyone: "Do not drink and drive," and then we make it legal to do the very thing we tell people NOT to do. And thousands die every year as victims of DUI drivers while we continue to do nothing about it.

Obviously the sentences are not nearly enough to provide a deterrent.

Make the BAC 0.00. ANYTHING over that level would be considered DUI.

1. ONE DUI without accident? Lose your driver's license for life. Confiscate and sell the driver's vehicle. Take proceeds and put them into a DUI victims fund. 364 days in jail.

2. DUI WITH accident? See above. Five years in prison, DUI driver must pay ALL costs, reimbursing insurance as well, even if that requires seizure and sale of all assets.

3. DUI WITH injury? Both 1 and 2, increase sentence to 20 years.

4. DUI WITH death(s)? Both 1 and 2 and life in prison.

As a country, we either want to END DUI or we don't.

At this point?

It's pretty clear we don't.

Has the left become a death cult?

Is it OK in their view to murder/assault those who disagree with them politically?

Leftists celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination for weeks. Many of the more obviously sicker leftists are STILL celebrating the slaughter of Kirk to this DAY.

Message: it's perfectly OK to spill the blood of those who don't agree with US.

Many on the left have assigned their version of sainthood to Tyler Robinson, who's on trial for destroying Charlie Kirk's life because Kirk allegedly said things he (and the vast majority of the left) felt were "hateful."

This puts the majority of the left into an awkward position.

They cheerfully support the murder of a man based on what he has said which THEY view as hateful.

The awkwardness comes into play simply because the vast majority of today's left, not just in this country, but around the world, live on hatred themselves.

The left will attack, verbally and all too often physically, those who do not align with their view. And they will even either slaughter or make a serious effort to slaughter those they do not agree with or approve of.

Insurance executives, presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices... American citizens by illegal aliens... children...

All are on the left's approved target list.

We've seen that with the Kirk assassination. We've seen it with efforts to murder the president. We've seen it with efforts to murder Justice Kavanaugh. We've seen it with the mass shooting that nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise. We've seen with leftist support of terrorists in politics; Congress... the Senate AND House... The election of political thugs as a result of the community short memory... (NYC comes to mind)

We've seen it with the slaughter of babies as the Clancy trials show and others have also done... Most recently this August in North Dakota where a mom (Kalley Erhart) murdered a 3-year-old and an 8-month-old, while her 1-year-old survived.

None of the fringe-left women supporting Clancy have demanded justice for her victims. Nope. The focus is all on poor, confessed perpetrator, admitted murderer Lindsay.

The left is increasingly pushing an envelope to justify their determined efforts to spill the blood of those opposed to their world view.

How much political violence do we need? Where and how is the line drawn? How do we put a stop to it?

The same can obviously be extended to islamic violence. Europe is the template. Flashes of that cult attempting to ignore or Constitution are already taking place.

We all know this. But what, and when, do we act?

Or do we simply stand here while the tarantula wasp (tarantula hawk) crawls all over us, looking for the place to sting and the site to plant the egg that will eventually eat us alive?

My concern isn't for me so much as it is for our children and our children's children.

Do we put an end to this insanity now, in its infancy? Or do we wake up one morning and realize, sadly, that it's too late?

I don't have the answers. But these and other questions need to be answered... and soon.