I am not a lawyer either, but have had a lot of experience with people at parties and people just sitting home having a few OR smoking a few, and decide they "need" to go somewhere.
. A morning drunk killed my friend at 8 in the morning and he got 7 or 8 years in jail.. The drunk was on his way to work.......
A drunk smashed into a young couple in their car at about 7pm. The young man had the transmission shoved through him and the woman had most of her body broken, but was barely alive at that point. We actually tried to get the drunk out of his overturned truck by making an attempt to pry open a door with a big bar, but he was stuck in his belts and bled to death hanging upside down. The young woman died later that night. The drunk driver died, so , of course there was never a trial. But the local papers did mention that the drunk had been stopped for DWI in the past
A friend died after smoking a few and going home after dark. He was supposed to stay where he was.. When turning a corner, he was impaired enough to not see the flat bed 18 wheeler trailer sitting just around the corner in front of a house. It clipped the top off the top of his head as he was turning. He died right there.
I know we all have had similar experiences, these just serve to show that sometimes, what one does at home does not necessarily mean it will stay that way. Too many variables.
That is why I believe that if a man/woman/teen is over the legal limit, and kills someone in a vehicle, they should be tried for 1st degree murder. Same if the driver is chemically impaired. Otherwise, in the home...fine.
Now, I know a man that was always able to handle his liquor, and he let his sons have access to it also. One of them could not handle it. He is in prison. Wonder how the father felt? |
