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Old 08-28-2015, 07:49 AM
 
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Where was the roadblock?
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Old 08-28-2015, 08:13 AM
 
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Where was the roadblock?
In Georgia
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Old 08-28-2015, 08:18 AM
 
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The legal driving limit in Sweden is .02. If you break the law more than once, your name, your face and your car goes into a database so police can stop you at anytime.
That is, for the lack of a better word, stupid.
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Old 08-28-2015, 08:46 AM
 
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Sweden has extremely stupid and strict laws for other things also. Im not sure how comparing ours to theirs serves any purpose. Should we be thankful we're not in Sweden? What was the purpose of bringing them up? Im not going to "appreciate" our insane drinking laws because a random country in Europe has worse ones. Ironically, all of those countries you listed have drinking cultures where people regularly get **** faced as in cant even walk out of the bar and are sleeping in the restroom or on the sidewalk outside. I dont remember the last time seeing grown people drinking like a college frat party. I've been to a couple of them.
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Old 08-28-2015, 10:58 AM
 
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That is, for the lack of a better word, stupid.
No it is NOT stupid. They don't have many driving accidents that are drinking related. I had a car totaled by a drunk driver when it was parked in front of my house (not in Texas, but in Illinois). I have seen too many kids killed by drunk drivers.

HPD: Drunk driver killed child, homeless man; injured 3

Suspected drunk driver to face charges in deadly head-on crash in northeast Houston | abc13.com

drunk driving death | abc13.com

Teen charged in December crash that killed two Katy ISD students | News - Home

If you drink, don't drive, period.
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Old 08-28-2015, 11:00 AM
 
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Sweden has extremely stupid and strict laws for other things also. Im not sure how comparing ours to theirs serves any purpose. Should we be thankful we're not in Sweden? What was the purpose of bringing them up? Im not going to "appreciate" our insane drinking laws because a random country in Europe has worse ones. Ironically, all of those countries you listed have drinking cultures where people regularly get **** faced as in cant even walk out of the bar and are sleeping in the restroom or on the sidewalk outside. I dont remember the last time seeing grown people drinking like a college frat party. I've been to a couple of them.
No we should be stricter on drunk driving. If our laws were stricter, there would be less accidents and less people killed.
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Old 08-28-2015, 11:10 AM
 
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Yeah cops being able to pull you over before a crime is commited is not a police state or going into dangerous territory lol.
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Old 08-28-2015, 11:10 AM
 
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European countries have stricter DWI laws b/c:

1) (generalizing) there are far more pedestrians and cyclists in big cities, compared with big cities in the US, and driving requires more attention and care as a result.
2) there are more alternatives to driving (walking, cycling, decent public transport), so there's less of an excuse to drink and drive except for people living in rural areas (and interestingly, at least once council has tried to make "slightly" drunk driving legal: Irish council approves motion to allow rural drink-driving | World news | The Guardian)

I wouldn't support making European laws more-lenient, or US laws more-strict. Different environments, different challenges, different solutions.
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Old 08-28-2015, 12:32 PM
 
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No it is NOT stupid. They don't have many driving accidents that are drinking related. I had a car totaled by a drunk driver when it was parked in front of my house (not in Texas, but in Illinois). I have seen too many kids killed by drunk drivers.

HPD: Drunk driver killed child, homeless man; injured 3

Suspected drunk driver to face charges in deadly head-on crash in northeast Houston | abc13.com

drunk driving death | abc13.com

Teen charged in December crash that killed two Katy ISD students | News - Home

If you drink, don't drive, period.
We could seriously reduce a lot more deaths by limiting the speed on every road to 30 mph.

We could eliminate a bunch of serious injuries and even death by eliminating high school football.

Sorry, if I don't want to trade everything for a little safety.

A limit of .1 works just fine.
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Old 08-28-2015, 12:54 PM
 
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Weird that she linked a story about a teen killing two people. You realize that stricter laws wouldnt have changed that right. We should just make 21 the age to get a license so it wont happen again.
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