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- Yet, the Democrats have been peeing in their pants over the number of causalities in Iraq.
Posted by Speakinup21 at 07:29 PM : Jan 04, 2009
Both Dems and Repubs get drunk the same way, stay drunk for the same reasons and drive drunk because neither one has a lick of sense when they are drunk (on the job or off it). (most of both sides come to work drunk or get that way on the job) - Reply to this comment
- I realize that defence attorney have to defend the criminal. Just hope their not on the road when the drunk driver decides to come down that road the wrong way and head-on into them. Would they still defend them and say its not their fault.
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- 7 1/2 years ago I was awakened with a call from the hospital with news that my 18 year old son, Cameron, had been in a serious accident. I rushed to the hospital to find that he had been killed by a drunk driver. Was it murder? Well, the driver made the choice to go to a bar, the choice to use a fake ID, the choice to drink until she was drunk, the choice to get back in her car and drive, the choice to drive at 82 mph in a 45 mph zone, and the choice to run a red light. She made those choices - and when she hit my son''s car and killed him, she could not have been more efficient if she had shot him in the head with a gun. Was it murder? My son''s death was the result of the choices she made. It makes no difference what one''s weapon of choice might be - a gun, a knife, a car - if you make the choice to use a weapon and someone dies, it is murder. Don''t insult me or my son by saying otherwise.
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- I agree that it is murder if someone is drunk and caused a death in an accident. I had a friend whom died because of a drunk driver. That person only saw a year in jail. It''s not right the drunk drivers get so little time in prison. However in your report I noticed that Kathleen Rice went after the drunk drivers only if the victims had money.
Is this kind of justice just for the rich? Why not make a federal law that states that if you cause the death of another threw any kind of drunk driving, cell phone use or any other deliberate distractions that you should spend the rest of your life in prison?
Drunk drivers are the worst and should be punished as so. - Reply to this comment
- Why are only drivers that kill while intoxicated charged with murder? It seems you can drive recklessly but are given a free pass to murder as long as you are sober.
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Posted by Raymo853 at 07:19 PM : Jan 04, 2009
In my hometown, a drunk individual (with repeat reckless driving and a revoked license) killed two young men on an angry rampage. This loaded gun is in prison now and charged with two murders, justice that is bitter for the grieving parents. - Reply to this comment
- Drinking and driving is BAD and bad things happen when people do it. But people make mistakes. With all the great minds in this country you would think we could come up with something other than prison time for FIRST time offenders (other offenders should get the death pentalty because they wasted thier chance). If the first time offenders get sent to prison then not only do the families of the one who died have to grieve they have to pay to house this drunk driver. Why not make them work, why not make them take meds. that make them sick if they touch any alochol all at this drunk drivers expense. Let me tell you should my child ever die I would want that person responsible to die, it would not matter weather they were sober or not. I think the pentalties should be sever for drunk driving but I think the drunk driver going to prison and me having to pay for that is nuts at least for first time offenders, lets come up with a more creative puinshment for these first time offenders, and if it cost then they have to pay.
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- Yes we should punish people who drink and drive, we need to also think of the families of the drunk driver. My father was a drunk driver and hurt a young lady very badly. He was sentenced to 10 years. I was 14 at the time, and along with his 10 year sentence came a sentence of 10 years of me without my father at my football games, wrestling matches, graduation, etc. Yes he did wrong, but I have yet to realize what i did to lose my father for so long. He is now dead, and I just wander what that extra ten years would have brought. I love you Dad!
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- 7 1/2 years ago I was awakened with a call from the hospital with news that my 18 year old son, Cameron, had been in a serious accident. I rushed to the hospital to find that he had been killed by a drunk driver. Was it murder? Well, the driver made the choice to go to a bar, the choice to use a fake ID, the choice to drink until she was drunk, the choice to get back in her car and drive, the choice to drive at 82 mph in a 45 mph zone, and the choice to run a red light. She made those choices - and when she hit my son''s car and killed him, she could not have been more efficient if she had shot him in the head with a gun. Was it murder? My son''s death was the result of the choices she made. It makes no difference what one''s weapon of choice might be - a gun, a knife, a car - if you make the choice to use a weapon and someone dies, it is murder. Don''t insult me or my son by saying otherwise.
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- Why are only drivers that kill while intoxicated charged with murder? It seems you can drive recklessly but are given a free pass to murder as long as you are sober.
Posted by Raymo853 at 07:19 PM : Jan 04, 2009
Because to drive intoxicated is worse than wreckless. A drunk will never figure out that he/she is on the wrong side of the road. The driver that kills while sober but by accident may have had a momentary distraction (a Hornet stinging one in the face can certainly cause one to drive ''wrecklessly'') - Reply to this comment
- The high incidence of this crime reflects directly upon our morals. Legislation will not prevent it. Your report indicated statistically the death rate as almost constant. (prior ten years) The answer to this crime is found in automotive design. Breathylizer or alcohol detectors in ALL vehicles is the intelligent solution.
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