A friend of mine was nearly killed by a drunk driver a few days ago. He was hit head on and thank God is doing well considering. I had been thinking about drunk driving since Angles’ pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed by a suspected drunk driver earlier this month.
I’ve been thinking about when I’ve heard that it was someone’s 2nd time drinking and driving or maybe even the 5th or 6th DUI they have received. How does that happen?
I’ve got a question; are our DUI laws to lenient?
I have an idea for what the DUI penalty could be, but am I being too extreme? I may be, but here goes.
3 DUI strikes:
1 You can never have a license in America again. If you are from a foreign country, you are banned from America.
2 One year in prison. Outsourced to a foreign country, like somewhere in Asia, as our prisons are too full.
3 A permanent ankle boot that won’t let you ever operate a car again. It would be from the knee down and could never be removed.
I’ll acknowledge right off the bat that these penalties are a little over the top. But you do think the penalties we have now are working? I imagine that someone could read the above and come at me with a WWJD? So what would Jesus do? He’d be perfect right, He’d forgive right, He’d do the right thing… YES! I believe He would. So here is my question when people use WWJD? whenever you are talking about penalties for crimes - ready - OK, if Jesus would never punish anyone for their crimes, why are people going to spend eternity in Hell? I don’t want anyone to go to Hell, I really don’t. If I had a vote, I’d vote for Universalism, but I don’t have a vote. Things are God’s way and not man’s way and He is perfect.
So maybe my penalty ideas are bad and wouldn’t work, but do we need to change something when it comes to DUI? What do you think?
April 30th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I like most of your penalties. I think that three strikes may be too many. I like the ankle boot instead of the Asian prison as the second penalty. I view the ability to drive as a privelidge, and those who utterly take advantage of and put others lives at risk heve not earned that priveledge. I prefer a chip in the hand that acts as a key though instead of a boot. I am also in favor of a vehicle having a kill switch in them so that authorities can shut down your vehicle when drunk or running from them…etc…
I’m sure many would be against both the chip and the kill switch though as there would be fear of our government…and fear that the chip might be the “mark”.
May 3rd, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I am not going to take any public stance on what i think about this issue until all my legal stuff is worked out but i do want to bring up an important point to keep in mind when debating this issue.
It was told to me when I got my license that it was a privilege and responsibility that was granted to me. I don’t think it is a “right” because of the danger and risk that is involved in driving. I am not sure whether it is considered a legal right that we have, but whenever there is a legal right there are legal expectation that you are expected to follow, or you will have your right taken away from you. In any legal right instance this is true.
I just like to keep this in mind when dealing with the issues at hand.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Donte Stallworth is an NFL star, who recently killed someone while driving drunk.
He got just 30 days in prison:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7867036&page=1
He may be suspended from the NFL indefinitely:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/thehuddle/2009/06/nfl-suspends-donte-stallworth-indefinitely.html