Exactly. July 4th is a major drinking holiday and I'd love to see the stats of how many people are killed from drunk driving on this day alone. I'm pretty sure if the Op's wife and daughter were saved because a cop got a drunk driver off the road, he'd feel differently about this. With that being said, the guy is blatantly sober, the cop should have let him go immediately.
Jeffrey, I like you, but I hate this logic.
Drunk drivers aren't dangerous, at least not at the level we've been conditioned to believe.
I'll drop a link or two but you can do your own research.
Here's an interesting one...
Rumors of DUI Deaths Have Been Greatly Exaggerated - Total DUI
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that nearly 18,000 highway deaths were classified in 2007 by federal statisticians as "alcohol-related." This could be misleading because not every traffic fatality that is alcohol-related was caused by alcohol. An accident is classified as alcohol-related when any one person, including passengers, pedestrians or cyclists, was thought - not necessarily proven - to have any amount of alcohol in their system at the time of the fatal accident. This method of classification can greatly skew statistics and cause them to be exaggerated and misleading.
In fact, if all of the alcohol-related accidents involving people who were driving under the blood alcohol content legal limit, drunken pedestrians, impaired cyclists and other people who had actually not been drinking at all were subtracted from the number of alcohol-related fatalities that are reported, only about 12 percent of innocent victims remain. This means that out of the 18,000 alcohol-related highway deaths, 2,160 were actually victims of DUI drivers. While that is still 2,160 too many, it is a fraction of the number of people that Americans are led to believe have been killed by drunken drivers.
Like most statistics backing an agenda, they're pulled out of someone's ass.
But they're a great tool for the state to breed fear, strip freedoms, impose fines, incarcerate people who've hurt no one and setup draconian checkpoints to generate more money for their handlers.
I have no sympathy for anyone whose reckless driving hurts or kills anyone. They should be punished, drunk or not. But 99% of the time I'd bet that the fact that they're an idiot who's prone to dangerous behaviour has a lot more to do with the crime than their BAC.
I'd rather let a responsible driver drive me across town shitfaced than get in a car with an accident prone asshole who's never had a drink in his life.
Some more food for thought... Have you ever considered all of the immoral implications for criminalizing the content of your blood? Great read here, I think Jake was the first to introduce me to it...
Legalize Drunk Driving - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily
It definitely makes you think.
Anywhoo - you'd like to see stats on how many people are killed on the 4th by drunk drivers every year?
I'd like to see stats on how many people are maimed, tortured, kidnapped, harassed and murdered by cops every 4th of July...
...I'd bet the numbers would be alarming. Unfortunately they don't keep stats on that stuff and shove them down our throats - if people understood what a cops job really is then they'd stop treating them like heroes for ass-raping them at every opportunity.
When the Police Shoot, Who's Counting?
And just FYI this isn't a personal attack against you. It's a line of thinking that most people have, and I can't help but try to expose it for what it really is anytime it comes up.
Drunk drivers are just another boogie man used to condition people to welcome harassment, brutality and extortion from armed thugs into their lives with open arms.
