Since over 10,000 people dies each year in the US due to drunk drivers, why are people not up in arms about banning alcohol? Are we just willing to accept these deaths as the cost we have to pay for our freedom to drink?
What about common sense restrictions, perhaps based on percentage of alcohol, ie, prohibiting very high alcoholic drinks, restricting high alcoholic content drinks to people who haven't had any DUIs in the past 5 years, and making sure that every other commonly available alcoholic drink has such a low content that the ratio of water to alcohol prevents then from attaining a high BAC?
We have a lot of people here in favor of applying more restrictions to guns which result in under 9,000 homocides a year (I'm ignoring suicides because I'm not comparing alcohol suicides), so I imagine that since drunk drivers commit more murder each year these same people would be in favor of applying common sense alcohol restrictions to society.
Thoughts?
What about common sense restrictions, perhaps based on percentage of alcohol, ie, prohibiting very high alcoholic drinks, restricting high alcoholic content drinks to people who haven't had any DUIs in the past 5 years, and making sure that every other commonly available alcoholic drink has such a low content that the ratio of water to alcohol prevents then from attaining a high BAC?
We have a lot of people here in favor of applying more restrictions to guns which result in under 9,000 homocides a year (I'm ignoring suicides because I'm not comparing alcohol suicides), so I imagine that since drunk drivers commit more murder each year these same people would be in favor of applying common sense alcohol restrictions to society.
Thoughts?