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Next they'll put a breathalyzer on your gun, your beer bottle, and your pecker, to make sure you're not too drunk to use those.
It is a large chunk of momentum for sure. However, the portion of auto fatalities which are alcohol related has been decreasing (as a percentage) and now falling asleep/tired driving is right up there with DUI. End of the day, you will never have zero cases of DUI. Not so long as drinking is legal and driving is legal. It's ridiculous to think it can get down to that level.
Ikari said:And in the end, I'm not willing to accept these sorts of infringements upon our rights; these aggressive style Big Brother searches before we can use our property or drive on the roads that we pay for. Drinking and driving can be dangerous, but the government is more so. I'd much rather take my chances with a few drunks on the road than begin to authorize horrible abuses of power and constant monitoring of the People by government goons.
It's too bad they haven't come up with an idiocy detector. A working one would eliminate 99% of all traffic accidents and make the highway patrol redundant.
No, a smart man would use an air compressor.
Did he sit in the car fuming (becomming mad at the world) or did the use his brain and think that he should act as a responsible adult ?
A smart man would take a 20 minute walk and think about things at the same time.
Terrible idea. On a purely practical level, breathalyzer systems are easily bypassed by cunning drunks, so there would be minimal benefit,
Psychoclown said:while all of us would have to endure the cost of installing these on a universal level. On a theoritical level, what ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? This proposal forces me to submit to a search everytime I want to use my property, and as a bonus, I have to pay for the priveligde! No thanks.
Psychoclown said:I know I've said this before, but I think the pendelum has swung too far on the issue of drunk driving. Legal limits are too low.
Psychoclown said:Penalties in many states are too high. And too many intrusive policies are pushed through under the guise of fighting drunk driving. All that said, someone who is truly drunk has no business behind the wheel and should be punished severely, but we've flown past the point of diminishing returns and continue to go even further for ever shrinking benefits.
1984 big brother intrussion into our lifes. No thankyou.
You lack understanding of what these instruments do
The bottom line is that at some point the lives saved are simply more important than a person's right to be reckless.
No, that would be a douchebag.
Wow aren't you jumpy?Maybe the one lacking understanding is you, Caine. Lack of understanding towards the People, lack of understanding towards rights and liberties and the necessities it takes to maintain them. Some of us don't want to be babysat by the government. Have its goons always looking over our shoulders, putting electronic devices on our property so we can only use it if we do what the government says.
Free is risky, free is not safe; never has been and never will be. I'd rather take my chances with the drunks on the road than an overbearing, controlling, tyrannical government.
Or a cunning patriot, depending on your point of view.
The bottom line is that at some point safety is simple not worth slavery.
No, a smart man would use an air compressor.
So... violating probation is a "cunning patriot"...
Gotcha.
Breathalyzers could presumably be designed to check temperature and CO2 content before giving a pass.
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"Slavery"? Give me a break. Is it slavery for the government to take away your god-given right to drive on the left side of the road too? :roll:
A breathalyzer would just be something you have to do in order to start your car. Considering that you're driving on government-funded roads and you're in close proximity to other motorists/passengers, you absolutely should have to conform to acceptable standards of safety. And if breathalyzers could reduce the number of drunk-driving fatalities without triggering lots of false positives, they absolutely would be worth the cost.
I don't think you can get the gas ratio so easily.
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