A classmate of mine, George Aguillon, recently posted about a DWI incident that involved a 2 year old boy to suffer and live in a vegetable like state. Prohibition didn't work the first time, and it won't work again. What has to happen is make it irreparably bad to get a DWI. Something like 7 years in a farm/prison where the guilty must provide for themselves at their own expense, IE, grow their own food, make their own clothes, build their own housing, etc. Any additional income goes to victims of DWI's. I bet after 7 years of back breaking labor like that, they will never drink again. as to those that say punish the providers, what happens when someone buys from a liquor store in January, and gets sloshed in Feb. How is that liquor store guilty? This all starts with personal responsibility. If you can't drink responsibly, then you do not need to be a part of civilized society.
What is very misleading about tougher DWI laws is that you are not effectively helping the problem. It is rare that a Drunk Driving Fatality is caused by a serial habitual offender. It is the once in a while stories that make the news. If these politicians would do a little research they would see that time effective change is how we treat the disease. We would produce better results if we take a treatment approach early on as opposed to the adversarial, Probation and then "lock them all up" approach. Politicians keep talking and the problem keeps growing. No change and no differences made. Hot air and lost lives and yet the drunks are still drunks and the problem is still alcoholism.
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