Slippery slope. Who would decide what is the greater harm? The Libertarian in me cringes at this. We have laws against driving drunk. They are clear. The answer is not Nazi checkpoints. The answer is for the police to do their jobs and catch drivers and the answer is for the damned courts to actually PUNISH the drunks the cops catch. I have lost track of how mnay times i have read reports in the paper of some asshole who has 3-4-5 or more drunk driving convictions, and they finally end up killing someone. WTF are they even doing on the streets? They belong in jail. People drink and drive becasue they don’t go to jail. Start putting their ass in jail after the second offense.
There was a case of some low life rich fuck who was plastered and hit a yound woman who was taking her kid to a babysitter so she could go to her waitress job. He killed her. The cops found a shitload of empty beer cans in this douch bags car. Even though he was legally drunk, his fucking lawyer convinced a brain dead jury that it was the womans fault, that she was distracted by her kid in the back seat and crossed the center line. The fact that this scumbag had 3 prior drunk driving convictions was witheld form the jury. THIS is where the problems come from!