The Answer to the problem of Drunk Driving, etc.
Copyright 1987-2005 © Bruce Alm.
The answer to the problem of drunk driving, etc. could be this:
A permit for the purchase and consumption of alcohol beverages.
This would not only be a major assault on the problem of drunk driving,
but would also have an effect on virtually all other crimes such as these;
Murder, rape, assault, burglary, robbery, suicide, vandalism, wife beating,
child beating, child molestation, the spread of aids, animal cruelty, etc.,
the list is endless.
If this proposition was made law, there could be a major reduction in all
these areas of concern, even though the emphasis concerning alcohol abuse
seems to be drunk driving in particular.
There could also be many other positive results;
Families healed, better work performance, booze
money spent on products that would help the economy
(we’ve all heard of the guy who spends half his check
in the bar every payday,)
this could also spare many health problems, etc.
This new law could go something like this;
Any person found guilty of any crime where drinking
was a factor would lose the right to purchase
and/or consume alcohol beverages.
For a first misdemeanor, a three year revocation,
a second misdemeanor, a ten year revocation,
a third misdemeanor, a lifetime revocation.
Any felony crime, an automatic lifetime revocation.
Anyone caught drinking alcohol without a permit
would receive a possible $1000 fine and/or jail sentence.
Those who would supply alcohol to people without a drinking
permit (and possibly make money at it,) would also lose his/her
right to purchase alcohol beverages, even for themselves.
What wife or husband would buy an alcoholic spouse a bottle?
What friend would give a problem drinker a drink at the possible
cost of a thousand bucks and the loss of their own privilege?
This could be a total discouragement to these would-be pushers.
This permit doesn’t seem as though it would be a problem to put into effect.
It could simply be a large X, or whatever, on the back of any driver license
in any state, to show who has been revoked, and cannot purchase alcohol.
Most people of drinking age have a driver’s license, but one area that could
be a problem might be New York city, where many people don’t drive.
This problem could be resolved, however, by a license-type I.D.
specifically for the purchase of alcohol beverages.
(Most, if not all states have these already
for the purpose of identification.)
This would be a small price to pay for the saved lives
of thousands of Americans each and every year.
After this, it would simply be a matter of drinking establishments
checking I.D.s at the time of purchase. In the case of crowded bars,
they could simply check I.D.s at the door, as they do now.
Would this be a violation of rights?
There can be no argument here since they already check I.D.s
of people who look as though they may not be old enough to drink.
This could be a good saying, "If a person who doesn’t know how to drive
shouldn’t have a license to drive, a person who doesn’t know how to drink
shouldn’t have a license to drink."
Here are some other pluses to this idea:
A good percentage of people in correctional institutions are there
because of alcohol related offences. Because of this, court, penal,
and other law enforcement costs could drop dramatically.
The need for A.A., Al-Anon, MADD, SADD, RADD, etc.,
could be reduced significantly.
What the alcoholic fears most, is the temptation to have that first drink,
usually a spur of the moment type thing. without the ability to do this,
he/she is fairly safe. To start drinking again would almost have to be
planned in advance. and to maintain steady drinking would
seem to be extremely difficult, in most cases.
Even though A.A. members as a group don’t become involved
in political movements, it seems as individuals, they would all
be in favor of a situation like this. Any person who wants to
quit drinking, even if never having been in trouble with the law,
could simply turn in their license, for the non-drinking type.
A woman from MAAD, on NBC’s Today Show, said: One out of every
ten Americans has a drinking problem, and that 10% consumes 60%
of all alcoholic beverages sold in the U.S.." If this is true, there could be
financial problems for breweries, liquor stores, bars, rehab centers, etc., as
well as lawyers, massive amounts of tax revenue "down the drain," and so on.
But it doesn’t seem as though anyone would have a valid argument
against a proposal such as this for financial reasons. To do so would be
morally wrong, and could be likened to a drug-pusher attitude.
Even with the problems this new law could present,
it still could, in one sense, be considered the simple solution
to the number one drug problem in the U.S. and elsewhere.
alcoholism.
P.S.
What ever happened to the skid row drunk?
Click the skull to send an email.
Before sending email about drunk driving, please note:
There is no correlation in the above article to the advocacy of prohibition,
which was as much of a worthless fiasco as the "war on drugs" is today,
for all the same reasons.
The email criticism, has mostly been "prohibition didn't work,"
even though the word "prohibition" has not been mentioned until now.
The argument would therefore have to be more compared as to whether or not
there should be a law for people to have a driver's license to drive,
rather than as to whether motor vehicles should be legal, or illegal.
These are separate issues altogether,
and no connection should be made between the two.
Below is a photograph of my friend Lynnette Snell.
Lynnette's family has one of the best dwi websites to be found.
So visit the Snell family farm, and plan on spending some time.
Everyone is always welcome.
Click Lynnette's picture below,
and you will find yourself at the Snell Farm,
in the beautiful heart of Montana.
Photo copyright: Marshall Nioce.
The Snell family has proposed DUI legislation to the state of Montana.
See The DUI Bill Explained. for a summation of this proposed bill.
To see the full DWI Bill initiative in detail, click: The DWI Bill initiative.
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