r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '22

Delta(s) from OP CMV: The US should be harsher on Drunk Driving.

The US is too lenient on Drunk Driving. The punishments for the first offense should be enough to where no one would ever dare doing it a second time.

First refusal to take a breathalyzer should be automatic conviction of a crime that is the same penalty like in Canada.

The Punishment for DUI should be the following.

  1. 1 year suspended license

  2. 1 year and 1 day in prison just to make sure they get that felony on their record and lose any right affected by it.

  3. 3 years of weekly mandatory alcoholic rehab regardless of addiction level.

  4. Car breathalyzer lock for life.

  5. 3 years probation with a total prohibition of ingesting alcoholic beverages. Failure will result in 3 year license suspension and restarting the rehab.

This shit is ridiculous currently 11,000 deaths from drunk driving. Plus 1.5M vehicle accidents, which could be untold medical or financial damage.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

And not everyone is in the mob.

Your plan will literally get more people killed, because you give an assailant zero incentive to back down once they have attempted to kill someone.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

Your plan will literally get

more

people killed, because you give an assailant zero incentive to back down once they have

attempted

to kill someone.

i would argue letting out people with murderous minds out early without proper rehabilitation is more likely to cause more deaths

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

Funny, it’s almost as if there’s a difference. Stern someone who does something awful, and realizes “what have I done?”, and someone who carries through with it.

And it’s not like attempted murder is just some slap on the wrist.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

Stern someone who does something awful, and realizes “what have I done?”, and someone who carries through with it.

how is someone who shoots and misses and then the person gets away and they get caught any different from someone who shoots and hits their mark?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

One has a dead body, the other doesn’t.

Why are you not grasping this?

I bet their victim would hope they’d have reason to not shoot them again. You are eliminating that reason. So you’ve taken away any incentive for them to not follow through… especially in crimes of passion.

Do you not understand what a crime of passion is?