“The chairman added he was concerned that drunken driving laws could infringe on the constitutional rights of drivers”…
Say that again?
Exactly where in the constitution does it give anyone the right to drink & drive? Last time I looked, driving was a privelege, not an unassailable right. I won’t argue anybody’s right to have a drink if they choose, or their right to exercise the option to drive. But the two should never meet, and each should be done responsibly!
You have the right to bear arms, too, but not the right to wilfully and wantonly shoot someone. Why should you have the right to turn your automobile into a weapon by getting behind the wheel with diminished capacity?
Give me a break!
Leave it to a politician to speak prior to thinking, and a Democrat to try and protect the “rights” of the common criminal…
MADD is out of control. One of the Constitutional rights that they wish to trample is Due Process. Another is Search and Seizures. How can you justify destroying a person’s career, family and send him to prison because he had a couple of beers at his family barbeque and ran to the store to get some buns. If it was up to the Captain Ahabs that run MADD that person would be incarcerated. Sick. Go after the habitual offenders. Go after the kids. And go after those whow are smashed behind the wheel. Do not clog up the courts, waste peoples time, ruin good people and trample on the Constitution because you have a personal obsession with people who drink. Many of the MADD types can’t deal with their own demons. They need to inflict their pain on other people. Sick.
Here in PA if you refuse a blood test after being stopped for a suspected DUI, you lose your license for a year. Oh and if you agree to a bloodtest and had injested marijuana within the past 30 days, it might still show up in a blood test. Then you get a DUI.
I CANT BELIEVE HOW MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO REPLIED TO THIS ARTICLE AND OTHERS THAT BORDER ON THE TOPIC OF DRUNK DRIVING, SUPPORT DRUNK DRIVING.
SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO REPLIED USED COMMENTS LIKE “DRINKING AT A FAMILY BBQ OR AT A COMPANY PICNIC”… LETS GET SERIOUS 99 OUT OF 100 TIMES ITS SOME DRUNK WHO WAS SLOUCHED OVER A BAR STOOL UNTIL 3:00AM AND THEN DROVE HOME BECAUSE HE OR SHE WAS TOO “””STUPID””” TO FIND A SAFE LEGAL WAY TO GET HOME…
AND IN THOSE CASES I SAY GIVE THEM A $3,000 FINE AND TAKE THIER LICENSE FOR SIX MONTHS FOR A FIRST OFFENSE, ON A SECOND OFFENSE $5,000 AND SIX MONTHS IN JAIL……
AND FOR THOSE DRUNKS WHO REPLIED AND SUPPORT THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR MAYBE YOUR KIDS WILL END UP ON SOME DRUNKS HOOD ONE NIGHT SO YOU WILL THEN KNOW THE DANGER OF DRUNK DRIVING…………….
AND AS FOR AN INSURANCE COMPANY PAYING FOR THE DRUNKS DAMAGES, NOOOOOOO WAYYYYYYYYY, THE SAME WAY A LIFE INSURANSE CO WONT PAY FOR SUICIDE CLAMES…IF YOU ASK FOR IT, THEN ITS NOT AN ACCIDENT AND YOUR NOT COVERED :)
Not…You are just another one of these people who enjoys legislating common sense. Whenever a good argument comes along for protecting people’s rights, some great thinker always throws their kids into the mix and says do it for them. I’ll give my rights up for my kids. By the time your kids have kids their will be nmo rights at all.
What a joke.
Questiom: What are your kids doing out at 3 am anyway. How about a 7:00 to 7:00 curfew for the kids under 20 so the are safe from the harms of society.
Give me a break. Go stand on your soapbox with MADD and AAIM and bribe your legislation through so you can collect income from the fines levied against so called criminals.
That type of rhetoric is misguided. A .08 BAC may be reached, pending on your size and how quickly you drink, in three or four beers. What does that have to do with guy slouched over the bar. The average BAC for drivers who cause injurous accidents is over .20. That’s the AVERAGE. More than twice the legal limit. Your crusades are misguided. People leaving bars smashed at closing are the minority. Actions have repurcussions and is bother me that so many in the MADD camp use emotional exploitation of worse casse scenarios to trample individual rights. Go after habitual offenders. Go after the youths who get wasted and go speeding, go after enebriated drivers. But to do what PA just did is wrong. Roving checkpoints??? Stopping people under no suspicion and performing inspections. What are we on the GAZA border. Seriously, those people are nuts and need to get out more.
HAVE ANOTHER DRINK!!!! I COULD CARE LESS HOW YOU SLICE IT DRUNK DRIVING IS ILLEGAL AND DANGERIOUS. AND WHERE I COME FROM WE DONT FIGHT FOR CRIMINALS RIGHTS, BUT YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT……
“The chairman added he was concerned that drunken driving laws could infringe on the constitutional rights of drivers”…
Say that again?
Exactly where in the constitution does it give anyone the right to drink & drive? Last time I looked, driving was a privelege, not an unassailable right. I won’t argue anybody’s right to have a drink if they choose, or their right to exercise the option to drive. But the two should never meet, and each should be done responsibly!
You have the right to bear arms, too, but not the right to wilfully and wantonly shoot someone. Why should you have the right to turn your automobile into a weapon by getting behind the wheel with diminished capacity?
Give me a break!
Leave it to a politician to speak prior to thinking, and a Democrat to try and protect the “rights” of the common criminal…
Thank god the Democrats are not bowing to the pressure of a group of people trying to legislate us back to prohibition.
Stand firm Rhode Island until this group donates more to your campaigns.
MADD is out of control. One of the Constitutional rights that they wish to trample is Due Process. Another is Search and Seizures. How can you justify destroying a person’s career, family and send him to prison because he had a couple of beers at his family barbeque and ran to the store to get some buns. If it was up to the Captain Ahabs that run MADD that person would be incarcerated. Sick. Go after the habitual offenders. Go after the kids. And go after those whow are smashed behind the wheel. Do not clog up the courts, waste peoples time, ruin good people and trample on the Constitution because you have a personal obsession with people who drink. Many of the MADD types can’t deal with their own demons. They need to inflict their pain on other people. Sick.
Here in PA if you refuse a blood test after being stopped for a suspected DUI, you lose your license for a year. Oh and if you agree to a bloodtest and had injested marijuana within the past 30 days, it might still show up in a blood test. Then you get a DUI.
I CANT BELIEVE HOW MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO REPLIED TO THIS ARTICLE AND OTHERS THAT BORDER ON THE TOPIC OF DRUNK DRIVING, SUPPORT DRUNK DRIVING.
SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO REPLIED USED COMMENTS LIKE “DRINKING AT A FAMILY BBQ OR AT A COMPANY PICNIC”… LETS GET SERIOUS 99 OUT OF 100 TIMES ITS SOME DRUNK WHO WAS SLOUCHED OVER A BAR STOOL UNTIL 3:00AM AND THEN DROVE HOME BECAUSE HE OR SHE WAS TOO “””STUPID””” TO FIND A SAFE LEGAL WAY TO GET HOME…
AND IN THOSE CASES I SAY GIVE THEM A $3,000 FINE AND TAKE THIER LICENSE FOR SIX MONTHS FOR A FIRST OFFENSE, ON A SECOND OFFENSE $5,000 AND SIX MONTHS IN JAIL……
AND FOR THOSE DRUNKS WHO REPLIED AND SUPPORT THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR MAYBE YOUR KIDS WILL END UP ON SOME DRUNKS HOOD ONE NIGHT SO YOU WILL THEN KNOW THE DANGER OF DRUNK DRIVING…………….
AND AS FOR AN INSURANCE COMPANY PAYING FOR THE DRUNKS DAMAGES, NOOOOOOO WAYYYYYYYYY, THE SAME WAY A LIFE INSURANSE CO WONT PAY FOR SUICIDE CLAMES…IF YOU ASK FOR IT, THEN ITS NOT AN ACCIDENT AND YOUR NOT COVERED :)
Not…You are just another one of these people who enjoys legislating common sense. Whenever a good argument comes along for protecting people’s rights, some great thinker always throws their kids into the mix and says do it for them. I’ll give my rights up for my kids. By the time your kids have kids their will be nmo rights at all.
What a joke.
Questiom: What are your kids doing out at 3 am anyway. How about a 7:00 to 7:00 curfew for the kids under 20 so the are safe from the harms of society.
Give me a break. Go stand on your soapbox with MADD and AAIM and bribe your legislation through so you can collect income from the fines levied against so called criminals.
That type of rhetoric is misguided. A .08 BAC may be reached, pending on your size and how quickly you drink, in three or four beers. What does that have to do with guy slouched over the bar. The average BAC for drivers who cause injurous accidents is over .20. That’s the AVERAGE. More than twice the legal limit. Your crusades are misguided. People leaving bars smashed at closing are the minority. Actions have repurcussions and is bother me that so many in the MADD camp use emotional exploitation of worse casse scenarios to trample individual rights. Go after habitual offenders. Go after the youths who get wasted and go speeding, go after enebriated drivers. But to do what PA just did is wrong. Roving checkpoints??? Stopping people under no suspicion and performing inspections. What are we on the GAZA border. Seriously, those people are nuts and need to get out more.
HAVE ANOTHER DRINK!!!! I COULD CARE LESS HOW YOU SLICE IT DRUNK DRIVING IS ILLEGAL AND DANGERIOUS. AND WHERE I COME FROM WE DONT FIGHT FOR CRIMINALS RIGHTS, BUT YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT……