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Originally Posted by ForLoveOnly
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That's just horrible. I don't understand why people continue to drive while intoxicated when there's so many other options; if you can afford a few drinks going out, you should be able to afford to buy a ride home if you have to. The inconvenience is worth avoiding something so tragic like this, that definitely does happen from time to time. There seems to be too many of these kinds of things happening. Just a few weeks ago there was that story of the mother of 6 dying also from a drunk driver. It's so frustrating that you seem to always hear of the innocent person dying while the murderer doesn't (that's what they are, murderers); though I'm sure there's got to be those times when the opposite happens, maybe it's just not reported so much.
Life is just so difficult enough. Happiness is such a precious and fleeting thing. Why do people have to do such stupid things to ruin things for other people? Something that can be avoided so easily. It's so senseless and horrible.
The sentences really do need to be more severe for such things however. I'd say life in prison at the least, though I feel that the death sentence is warranted since a life was taken. Although it wasn't exactly intentional, the circumstances were such that you're really taking quite a risk with other people's lives operating a fast-moving vehicle while mentally impaired. Maybe some of these accidents can be avoided if the sentences were harsher. If people can't be motivated to protect other people's lives by not being a danger to them, maybe they can be motivated by the possibility that they might face life in prison if they kill another person while driving under the influence.
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