48 HOURS BINGE

[Jerry D Mead]

Tom...The problem with your proposal for advocacy tv, is that our side never gets told.

Good behavior/responsible drinking isn't very exciting television, as opposed to coeds falling out of 6th floor windows and tearful mothers testifying against the drunk drivers who have killed their children...never mind that the driver was at .20, and they are using that as justification to lower the BAC to .08.

There is no sliding scale for punishment here. You're as legally drunk at .10 where there might be some minor impairment as you are at .25 when your blindass, stumbling, falling-down drunk.

If you go five miles over the speed limit, that's speeding, but you only pay a small fine...go 50mph over the limit and you will pay a much greater price.

Commit a robbery and you might get off with probation or a short jail sentence first time around. Commit a robbery with a knife and that's worse. Use a gun and you WILL go to jail. Fire that weapon and injure someone and you will go away for a very long time.

Why isn't there an equivalent range for drunk driving?

JDM