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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Do you expect drinkers to stop drinking at 0.15 before getting behind the wheel because they don't want to risk an extra year of license suspension?
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I think the suggestion of jail time for a first offense for people that high would scare some people into looking at other options. I would even say start maditory jail sentances at 0.12; with a sliding scale that brings more jail time the more impaired you are.
I know friends who have blown in the 0.1 to 0.2 range; and all it would have taken is a conversation like:
- Where's Bill these days?
- In jail.
- WTF?
- For drunk driving. He's in there for 3 months.
That would have stopped most of my subsequent friends from getting behind the wheel while drunk. And that is the goal isn't it- to keep drunks from getting behind the wheel.