On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 08:42:31 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 9:47:42 AM UTC-4, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 8/13/2016 8:39 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> > On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 7:22:46 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>> >> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> This is America. We barely care about drunk driving, as evinced by
>> >>> our lenient drunk-driving laws.
>> >>
>> >> Lenient? Don't get caught DUI in Virginia.
>> >
>> > Virginia:
>> >
>> > Virginia categorizes a first DUI offense as a class 1 misdemeanor and imposes a fine ranginging from $250 to $2,500. The law also imposes a one-year license suspension. The punishment increases if you were arrested with a BAC of 0.15% or higher in which case your sentence may include a minimum five-day jail sentence..
>> >
>> > Sweden:
>> >
>> > Surpassing the limit is a serious offence, fined with €500. Driving with an alcohol rate over 0.12% is a crime (up to 6 months imprisonment and license suspension up to 4 years). Sweden: 0.02% (up to 6 months imprisonment), 0.10% (imprisonment, maximum 2 years).
>>
>> What about Cananda? That's where lucretia lives. Just because some
>> country has draconian laws doesn't mean ours are bad.
>
>Canada's laws seem only slightly stiffer than ours.
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><http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/AlcoholCountries/background_&_intro.htm>
>
>Looks like the U.S. has about 10,000 drunk driving fatalities per
>year, or 30% of all driving fatalities. Unless one simply thinks
>of it as "evolution in action", we've got some room for improvement.
>
><http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html>
>
>
>Cindy Hamilton

Well IMO it's okay if the drunk driver dies but very often it's not. A
married in aunt had a sister who was coming home from a school concert
with her husband and two children. They were hit by an elderly male
driving drunk as a skunk. The husband and daughter died, she was left
to live with a son who was a veggie, it was all terribly sad. The
nasty old drunk barely had a scratch