QUOTE: In 2006, there were 1,721 drivers involved in fatal accidents on Tennessee roads, according to federal statistics. Of those, 337 drivers, or 22 percent, tested for blood-alcohol contents at the legal limit of 0.08 percent or higher.
Again MADD trying to imply anyone driving with .08 or above CAUSED the accident. Simply not true. Providing statistics with no supporting facts is just another unique way these neo-prohibitionist mothers hoodwink legislators.
As a counterpoint the fact that at least one of the drivers involved in the accident was suffering from impaired judgement and reactions may have contributed to the severity of the accident. If you are not in full possession of your facilities while driving you may not be able to take an appropriate defensive action against getting hit or hitting someone that had turned in front of you.
I, for one, would prefer that the drivers on the road be capable of responding to road hazards. It keeps my insurance premiums down.
The Tennessee Senate is basically trying to “pick fly **** out of pepper” by stratifying the level of being drunk. Drunk is drunk is drunk. It’s like trying to assess of being dead. Does it matter if someone’s been dead for a minute? an hour? a week? Of course not. Forget this slightly, moderately, or severely drunk crap. We need to get these people off the road, not tweak ineffective laws. AND……..nobody wants to step up to the plate and enact any legislation to apply a serious consequence to DWI………like losing your car.
Dread, you always take an extreme position on DUI topics. You state “Drunk is drunk”.
Since alcohol affects every individual differently, define drunk from one person to the next. You fail to recognize that in your posts. The federal government forced states into lowering BAC to current .08 by withholding highway funds to appease groups like MADD with their tear jerking stories. Remember it was .10 before that and .12 before that. The lower the number, the more revenue it generates.
The only reason you feel the way you do is because you’ve fallen victim to a well orchestrated media campaign pushed by MADD and NHTSA, which by the way is being run by MADD members.
I recommend you do some research. If you bothered, it would show that sober inattentive drivers kill more people annually than driver with alcohol in their bloodstreams. Should we take the vehicles away from these killers too? An accident is an accident. A death is a death.
Unless prohibition is your goal, alcohol is not a problem.
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QUOTE: In 2006, there were 1,721 drivers involved in fatal accidents on Tennessee roads, according to federal statistics. Of those, 337 drivers, or 22 percent, tested for blood-alcohol contents at the legal limit of 0.08 percent or higher.
Again MADD trying to imply anyone driving with .08 or above CAUSED the accident. Simply not true. Providing statistics with no supporting facts is just another unique way these neo-prohibitionist mothers hoodwink legislators.
As a counterpoint the fact that at least one of the drivers involved in the accident was suffering from impaired judgement and reactions may have contributed to the severity of the accident. If you are not in full possession of your facilities while driving you may not be able to take an appropriate defensive action against getting hit or hitting someone that had turned in front of you.
I, for one, would prefer that the drivers on the road be capable of responding to road hazards. It keeps my insurance premiums down.
The Tennessee Senate is basically trying to “pick fly **** out of pepper” by stratifying the level of being drunk. Drunk is drunk is drunk. It’s like trying to assess of being dead. Does it matter if someone’s been dead for a minute? an hour? a week? Of course not. Forget this slightly, moderately, or severely drunk crap. We need to get these people off the road, not tweak ineffective laws. AND……..nobody wants to step up to the plate and enact any legislation to apply a serious consequence to DWI………like losing your car.
Dread, you always take an extreme position on DUI topics. You state “Drunk is drunk”.
Since alcohol affects every individual differently, define drunk from one person to the next. You fail to recognize that in your posts. The federal government forced states into lowering BAC to current .08 by withholding highway funds to appease groups like MADD with their tear jerking stories. Remember it was .10 before that and .12 before that. The lower the number, the more revenue it generates.
The only reason you feel the way you do is because you’ve fallen victim to a well orchestrated media campaign pushed by MADD and NHTSA, which by the way is being run by MADD members.
I recommend you do some research. If you bothered, it would show that sober inattentive drivers kill more people annually than driver with alcohol in their bloodstreams. Should we take the vehicles away from these killers too? An accident is an accident. A death is a death.
Unless prohibition is your goal, alcohol is not a problem.