Should DUI laws be eliminated?
How can you commit a crime against yourself? It is true that Drinking and Driving is dangerous. But unless you damage another's life or property what crime are you committing? Just because you MAY do harm to life or property is not justification for arrest, detainment, and imprisonment. Its...
How can you commit a crime against yourself?
It is true that Drinking and Driving is dangerous. But unless you damage another's life or property what crime are you committing?
Just because you MAY do harm to life or property is not justification for arrest, detainment, and imprisonment.
Its time we did away with DUI laws.
There is no link to DUI laws decreasing drunk driving.
Make no mistake I am not condoning driving under the influence.
@Nobody. Why is your situation better? You are saying its perfectly OK to prosecute another for crimes he has not committed..............WTF?
Drunk drivers kill millions,Its a safety issue.
That’s very stupid. So you should only be punished if you actually kill someone…. wow, you must be a right winger, right? What about laws to prevent such behavior? I guess you’re not in favor.
Btw, suicide is also illegal… which completely goes against your entire point. You have absolutely zero legal reasoning, and zero common sense reasoning on your side in this one
I agree but then again I’m not in the preempting team…
No. Each state makes those laws. Anyone who cannot see the obvious menace that drunk drivers create is simply not looking.
NO… because 9 times out of 10 they don’t hurt just themselves… They ended up killing someone or themselves.. Somewhere along the line they will hurt people …
edit.."no link to DUI laws decreasing drunk driving."
and that makes it right to drive while drunk how?
NO I want you to quit drinking and driving before you run a bus load of children off the road!!!
I got a DUI back in 1997. I hit a guy on a motorcycle and a helicopter came for him, he was in a coma for 3 days. I was charged with DUI with bodily injury and I totally deserved it. Yes, there should be laws against drinking and driving. I’m so happy he lived. I could have been someone’s B itch.
Criminal law
Main article: Strict liability (criminal)
The concept of strict liability is also found in criminal law, though the same or similar concept may appear in contexts where the term itself is not used. Strict liability often applies to vehicular traffic offenses. In a speeding case, for example, whether the defendant knew he or she was exceeding the posted speed limit is irrelevant. The prosecutor would need only prove that the defendant was indeed operating the vehicle in excess of the speed limit.
Strict liability laws can also prevent defendants from raising diminished mental capacity defenses – since intent does not need to be proven.
No.
Being that there is no foreseeable or likely negative outcome from DUI ,I’d have to agree.
I mean it’s not as though there is any statistical data to support that DUI leads to injury or accident.
The DUI laws are intended to protect other people’s life and property. The problem isn’t with the DUI laws themselves, the problem is with the enforcement of them.
You can put all the DUI laws you want and reduce the blood alcohol point to whatever you want but it doesn’t matter if you never punish the individual who violates them. Locally it’s your 5 FIFTH offense before anything mandatory happens to you. That means you have to be CAUGHT and charged 5 times before anything happens to you. No wonder the recidivism rate is so high.
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No, and I’m pretty damn liberal on drug policy (I’m for legalizing a good number of drugs for recreational use).
We have these laws for the same reason we have laws against speeding, and that is risk mitigation. Better that the offender gets a fine and/or gets his/her license suspended (or revoked if a repeat offender) to learn his lesson than to wait until someone gets hurt or killed.
Should Smoking in Public building laws be eliminated?
it is true that smoking in public buildings MAY be dangerous. But unless you damage another’s life or property what crime are you committing?
Just because you MAY do harm to life or property is not justification for arrest, detainment, and imprisonment.
Its time we did away with smoking in public building laws.
Yes we should. Of course it would have to accompany a new law where if convicted of murder while driving drunk you would get the Death Penalty with NO appeals.
-while there is no link to DUI laws decreasing drunk driving, I bet there are MANY links to DUI’s INCREASING state revenue and growing our legal, enforcement and penal system.
hmm? create a crime and then charge the "criminal" in order to pay the costs?
Yeah, well I’d ask my grandparents what they think except they were killed by a drunk driver at 3 PM on a California road many years ago. You may do harm? More than one-third of the fatal accidents are caused by folks who are loaded.
1998 statistics released by NHTSA
In 1998, 15,935 people were killed in alcohol-related traffic crashes, an average of one every 33 minutes. These deaths constituted approximately 38.4% of the total 41,471 total traffic fatalities. (NHTSA, 1999)
About 630,000 were injured in alcohol-related crashes, an average of one person injured approximately every minute. About 30,000 people a year will suffer permanent work-related disabilities. (Miller et al, 1998, 1996b)
I used to drive drunk and I know I had no business being on the road many times. Alcohol kills. You are kidding yourself if you try to rationalize otherwise.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Sorry, I just don’t buy your shallow arguments.
Apparently no one you care about has been killed or maimed by a drunk driver.
Would you hand a loaded gun to a four-year-old and then tell him not to shoot anyone?