I agree. and some people can function better then your average driver at .08. its not for the law to tax people on... when you start adding fines and penalaties and felonies for "you could have hurt someone" crimes, you can take that as far as you want.

From : [www.lewrockwell.com]

But there's a more fundamental point. What precisely is being criminalized? Not bad driving. Not destruction of property. Not the taking of human life or reckless endangerment. The crime is having the wrong substance in your blood. Yet it is possible, in fact, to have this substance in your blood, even while driving, and not commit anything like what has been traditionally called a crime.

What have we done by permitting government to criminalize the content of our blood instead of actions themselves? We have given it power to make the application of the law arbitrary, capricious, and contingent on the judgment of cops and cop technicians. Indeed, without the government's "Breathalyzer," there is no way to tell for sure if we are breaking the law.

Sure, we can do informal calculations in our head, based on our weight and the amount of alcohol we have had over some period of time. But at best these will be estimates. We have to wait for the government to administer a test to tell us whether or not we are criminals. That's not the way law is supposed to work. Indeed, this is a form of tyranny.

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Otherwise why not outlaw emotions, as that causes people to drink, causing some people to get hurt... causing people to die.
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The idea, is that as much as it sucks for people to get hurt, I would rather loose my legs or my life to a drunk driver then take away someone else's freedoms. If an individual does not damage person or property, then they are not a criminal.

OTHERWISE what you end up with are laws that make criminals... that fine people and provide income to the state because we as a people would rather let the government handle things for us. then you end up with too many laws... where you can be taxed or fined for doing anything, as it is now.

and as a side note, as a 29 year old, I can count on one hand how many times I have had alcohol.

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Sounds like Rip Torn is an authentic Celebrity Jalopnik.

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Now if someone is hurt by a drunk driver, diffrent story, but DUI, seatbelt laws, cell phone, driving while "distracted"... may as well just fine you when you leave the house because stictically you are going to break a law.

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Letting out a mighty beer fart, he'd point to it and, addressing the approaching trooper, would feign ignorance of its origin, thinking it was the result of some cross-country shortcut that his pickled brain had quickly forgotten.

Aww, Rip, you're shenanigans have tickled our funny bones for decades. Don't ever change buddy.

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(Full disclosure: I do think the DUIs are a douchebag move, but man... He's Rip friggin' Torn!)

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FAIL.

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I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

Rip Torn

. . . or impounded.

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Never mind, he looks like Jack Nicholson.

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