No more wiggle room

Reading the story about Mr. Barton, who killed a mother and her teenage daughter, brought back memories of the night my son was killed by a drunk driver. As I sat there reliving that tragic night my thoughts turned to all the times I had seen news story that talked about how someone was killed by a drunk driver. Or how a drunk driver killed themselves and how sickening it was to hear of such preventable tragedies. Never In my life did I think that I would be one of those news stories. But I was and I want to stop it from happening to someone else. So By now we all know that drunk driving is wrong and that it is against
the law. Knowing that, don’t you think that everyone who gets caught driving drunk intentionally decided to do so. There should be no excuse for driving
drunk. If you plan to have a drink then you should plan for another way to get home other than driving. We often hear someone say “I drove because I didn’t
want to leave my car there” that’s not an excuse for killing someone. Or those that say I’m ok and then cause the same type of tragedy the Mr. Barton did or wind up killing themselves.

"Driving drunk is an intensely selfish act; a driver endangers others because alternatives are less convenient." Kansas city star.com

 There are no DWI accidents they are all crashes that

could have been prevented. When you drink then drive you do so knowingly putting yourself and others in danger. The problem is that were given permission to
drink and drive as long were not over the limit of BAC .08. Then it is left to us to decide if we are ok to drive. The issue with that is that we tend to give
ourselves too much credit because we don’t want to see ourselves as criminals. If anything should be done is that those that drink should not drive no matter how
much they had. That way, there is no chance that someone may be driving impaired. The alcohol industry my say that are prohibitionist but that is not
true all we are asking is that anyone that drinks should not be driving. The wiggle room of being .02 through .08 should just be removed. And those that say we are affecting the economics of the alcohol industry are placing their bottom-line a head of the lives of the citizens of this state. If you think about it, a person that knows they will be driven home is more likely to enjoy
themselves more and spend more money doing so then one who has to contemplate when to stop. The transportation industry will benefit, they will have more
riders. They can work out a deal with the bars and restaurants to attract customers, then to get them home safely. It also will cut back on the time an officer
spends filling out a DWI report which is an outrageously long process. I think we should explore this further with our lawmakers and see what happens.  What do you think?