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Originally Posted by StuntmanMike
Three strikes my @$$. ONE strike is too many. You make the choice to drink without an alternate means of getting home, you set yourself up for having to drive drunk, and in your drunken haze you take the only option you've given yourself.
It's a premeditated act if I've ever seen one. That does NOT deserve 3 strikes.
I just saw on the 4 o'clock news here that we had yet ANOTHER wrong-way drunk driving accident this morning. The drunk, of course, tried to run away from the scene. The innocent victim is in the hospital with serious injuries.
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Don't get me wrong here. As I've stated in other threads, back in 1980 my girlfriend in High School was killed by a drunk driver. She was riding her bike home in the evening along a country road and a drunk driver clipped her and knocked her into a ditch. She spent the next 5 hours dying in the ditch because this low-life never stopped. The next day they found her and found this guy because he had a bent up fender with her blood on it. This guy should have been in prison for many years, but got out after about 2.
I'm all for a 30 day minimum sentence for the first offense, escalating to a 6 month minimum for the second and a 5 year MINIMUM for the 3rd (or in three strikes and you're out states, life). To me this is realistic, though to be honest I don't disagree with making it even tougher like you said.