^ ok, so let's say somone drives drunk, get's caught. He has his liscence suspended for a few months, goes to AA meetings, after a while, he gets his liscence back, considers it a huge hassle, but since he can drive again, he's feeling pretty good. He goes out and has too much to drink, figures he can drive, the chances of getting caught again are pretty slim, and on the way home, runs a red light and kills someone. That wouldn't have happened if the drivers liscence had been taken away forever after his first offense. And the guy who "swerves a little", who's to say that if the cops hadn't caugh him when he did he wouldn't have run a red light and t-boned another car? Most people don't consider drunk driving all that big a deal, and your post is a perfect example of that. "Oh i'm just swerving a bit, it's not gonna hurt anyone, I'm still fine." yeah, a little swerving never hurt anyone. I read the accident report from when my friend was killed. The driver swerved into the other lane, and to avoid hitting a car in that lane, accelerated into the intersection, and hit my friend's car.
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