Yes. Without question.

Jesus. Could you have come up with something more obscure?

putting people with DUI's in jail makes no sense, fine them a bunch then release them so they can work and pay more taxes.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety

Benjamin Franklin

no, .08 is like 1 beer.

can't see those things working, people will just carry a bike pump or something to blow into the locking thingy.

Please explain the essential liberty that is being taken away. Are you being denied the right to drive? Are you being denied the right to drink? Somehow, I don't think this is what Ben Franklin had in mind when he uttered those words.

People are always willing to justify the sacrificing of freedoms instead of accepting that freedoms can come with a price. We were having the same sort of back and forth about helmet and seat belt laws in the Vrabel thread.

Bingo.

They would have to set it up so every time you get out of the drivers seat you have to reblow.

Ben didnt have to worry about drunk drivers.

You have to hum while blowing and continue to blow as you continue to drive.


















NTTAWWT :p

I don't think they are the same thing. Helmet laws and seat belt laws protect you from your own actions; a mandatory ignition interlock law would protect others from you while you are 1) breaking a law that pretty much everyone universally agrees needs to be in place, and 2) engaging in an activity that is a leading cause of avoidable accidents, injuries and death.

Not wearing a seatbelt isn't going to cause you to swerve over the center line and hit an oncoming car head on.

Not wearing a helmet isn't going to cause you to slam into the back of a parked car.

Its time we all wake up and understand the government cannot, now nor it ever could, regulate or mandate a safer society. Or a healthy society. Or a moral society. This false thinking needs to stop. NOW.

What I mean, if you read my three posts here is that people who are drunk and have to drive will find a way. A friend. A pump. A CO2 cartridge device. They will find a way.

In the mean time, the rest of us will pay higher taxes to regulate this failure. We will pay huge costs in legal cases against the govt. We will be forced to be treated like the bad guys and blow into the straw to start the car, when the drunks would never do that. They would know better.

We would pay and suffer, and the bad guys would not be affected.

"Government can not solve our problems. Government is our problem"

Ronald Reagan.

You've got to be ****ing kidding me with this argument.

No shit. Why do we waste millions, nay billions a year on police protection?? THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING!!! STOP!!!!!