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So, explain to me how this new law will make me feel safer when I constantly read about the habitual drunk with 8 prior DUI's just got arrested again? I'm most understanding and I also did a DUI. 6 months loss of license and fines. Ok, I digress, simple answer is, you get arrested AGAIN for DUI and you still are on a prior conviction, JAIL!!!! Oh..Wait....Liberal theory has other ideas to help the ones who can't be helped while screwing the rest of us.
If you drink don't drive if you drive don't drink. what's so hard about that? I'm in the minority I don't even drink at all and not because I am not recovery or anything I have just seen too many lives ruined by alcohol and haven't been drunk since high school. But truly why do people need to drink and get behind the wheel of a car even if you are below a .08 BAC you can be impaired and you are putting other people at risk.
If you drink don't drive if you drive don't drink. what's so hard about that? I'm in the minority I don't even drink at all and not because I am not recovery or anything I have just seen too many lives ruined by alcohol and haven't been drunk since high school. But truly why do people need to drink and get behind the wheel of a car even if you are below a .08 BAC you can be impaired and you are putting other people at risk.
If you don't drink at all then how would you know that a person could be impaired enough with a BAC under .08 to be pulled over and arrested for DUI?
My wife did a rolling stop in our neighborhood that is still very new(meaning almost no traffic), and received a couple hundred dollar ticket. Truly shocking at the government overreach that so many are willing to bend over for.
Aw, geez, my neighbor shot his wife and received 20 to life. Truly shocking at the government overreach that so many are willing to bend over for.
Personally, when it comes to drinking and driving, it's 8 hours bottle to throttle or 12 if I'm packing. So I have a hard time seeing the reasoning of those who want to be able to drink and then control a ton of metal moving at 60 mph.
That said, it ought to be a State's choice without any Federal pressure.
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My wife did a rolling stop in our neighborhood that is still very new(meaning almost no traffic), and received a couple hundred dollar ticket. Truly shocking at the government overreach that so many are willing to bend over for.
Well, the problem with that defense is that she was making the decision for an action that could affect others, she was putting others at risk because she thought she knew better.
A and B. A: How many accidents can one count where the offender states that they didn't see the other person? Is that not what the person does who decides not to stop at the stop sign, to proceed without the full stop because they see no others in the vicinity?
B: There is a stop light at the ranch road and exit from my community that I approach at night. When I get there, it is often red, so I come to stop before I start my procedures to turn right on red. Those procedures are stretched out at night and I really hope the light turns green before I make the turn. For even though it is at night and I should see the headlights of ranch road traffic at a distance, I want to give extra detection time for what is not apparent at night, such as someone riding on a bike without lights, someone in a car who has not turned their lights on. I really hope the light will turn green before I make my turn because then I have another layer of legal protection if indeed there is someone out there without their lights on.
One might say I am over thinking the situation, but in this world of the invincibles who don't believe in lights, a little extra caution is wise with such heavy machinery.......and I'd rather hold on to my money than have to give it to some idiot.
Driving a car is really not some simple matter.
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