I just don’t understand drinking and driving

It's a shame you lack the maturity to discuss any topic on an adult level.

And it's a bigger shame that you crap up thread after thread with your infantile nonsense.

Here is even a more to the point quote concerning giving up freedoms..

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

Department of Public Safety urges DWI offenders to use interlock device
June 28, 2012

St. Paul, MN — Increased DWI patrols are slated for this weekend, nearly one year since enhanced impaired driving sanctions became effective in Minnesota, which includes the use of ignition interlock.

Repeat DWI offenders, as well as first-time offenders arrested at 0.16 and above alcohol-concentration level must use interlock in order to regain legal driving privileges, or face at least one year without a driver’s license. Offenders with three or more offenses are required to install interlock and use for three to six years, or they will never regain driving privileges.

Each year in Minnesota, 40 percent of the alcohol-related traffic deaths involve repeat offenders.

Since July 1, 2011, 2,796 eligible DWI offenders have joined the interlock program, a figure Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials hope will grow as more offenders see its benefits — specifically, legal driving privileges.

“Interlock benefits Minnesota’s road safety by ensuring offenders are driving sober, while also providing offenders with a pathway to legal driving,” says Jean Ryan, DPS impaired driving programs coordinator. “This technology helps to support those impacted and improve public safety.”

Ryan adds a main goal of interlock is to prevent impaired driving and reduce DWI re-offenses — of the 2,796 interlock users, 2 percent have reoffended. U.S. DOT studies show that 70 percent of DWI offenders drive illegally after arrest. The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation reports interlock devices can reduce repeat DWI offenses on average 64 percent.

Offenders interested in using interlock may visit www.MinnesotaIgnitionInterlock.org.

Last year, 111 people were killed in alcohol-impaired crashes (crashes involving drivers or pedestrians with a 0.08 alcohol-concentration, representing 30 percent of the state’s total 368 traffic deaths. In 2011, 29,257 motorists are arrested for DWI.

This weekend, increased DWI patrols will be in the state’s 13 counties that accounted for nearly half of the state’s alcohol-related deaths (202) and half of the state’s serious injuries (462) during 2008–2010. The top-ranked counties for alcohol-related deaths and serious injuries: Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka, St. Louis, Dakota, Wright, Olmsted, Rice, Washington, Stearns, Sherburne, Scott and Carver.

How Interlock Works
Ignition interlock is installed under a vehicle’s dashboard and connected to the starter. Users must provide a breath sample into the interlock, which requires an alcohol concentration below 0.02 in order for the vehicle to start.

Interlock Anti-Circumvention Features
• “Rolling re-tests” require driver to provide a breath sample three to five minutes after starting the vehicle, and randomly thereafter.

• In-car cameras record all breath tests. Video and test results are available for DPS to monitor.

• Specific hum or “suck back” patterns required when providing breath sample.

• Users are required to have the interlock calibrated monthly by a service provider. Service providers will run reports that indicate how many times the vehicle started, number of rolling re-tests, and any test fails (an alcohol-concentration limit of 0.02 or above). Service providers will send reports to DPS for review and to take appropriate action or extend sanctions.

Who is erligible for interlock
Repeat DWI offenders, as well as first-time offenders arrested at 0.16 and above alcohol-concentration level must use interlock in order to regain legal driving privileges, or face at least one year without a driver’s license. Offenders with three or more offenses are required to install and use interlock for three to six years, or they will never regain driving privileges.

Based on historical data, officials expect around 21,000 DWI offenders to be eligible for interlock sanctions during a given year.

Cost of an interlock is $3-$4 per day.

In the nation, 32 states including Minnesota use ignition interlock for first-time DWI offenders.
http://hometownsource.com/2012/06/28/department-of-public-safety-urges-dwi-offenders-to-use-interlocka-device/

I think you should take your gun and revolt, billy.

seriously...

They are ready to give up everything to anybody who promises them "SAFETY!"

We have the best damn government money can buy.

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Good old Thomas Jefferson quotes

"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength,
and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. "

'When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty"

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time
that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? "

Santa Fe man booked on 9th drunken driving charge
July 12, 2012

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Santa Fe man accused of driving a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle while he was intoxicated was booked on his ninth drunken driving charge.

A police report cited by the Santa Fe New Mexican says 33-year-old Angelo Ruiz fled from his home Tuesday after he had hit his girlfriend earlier in the evening and was pulled over on the ATV by an officer who spotted him.

Officers noticed that Ruiz had an ignition interlock driver's license but no interlock device on the unregistered ATV.

Records show Ruiz was arrested on drunken driving charges eight previous times in the past 12 years.

Ruiz faces a maximum of three years in prison if convicted in the latest case.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Santa-Fe-man-booked-on-9th-drunken-driving-charge-3701950.php

The sad part is there is no safety in giving up freedoms only chains

The arresting irony is one that will be long talked about in the history files of our grandkids and great grandkids.

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Santa Fe man booked on 9th drunken driving charge
July 12, 2012

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Santa Fe man accused of driving a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle while he was intoxicated was booked on his ninth drunken driving charge.

A police report cited by the Santa Fe New Mexican says 33-year-old Angelo Ruiz fled from his home Tuesday after he had hit his girlfriend earlier in the evening and was pulled over on the ATV by an officer who spotted him.

Officers noticed that Ruiz had an ignition interlock driver's license but no interlock device on the unregistered ATV.

Records show Ruiz was arrested on drunken driving charges eight previous times in the past 12 years.

Ruiz faces a maximum of three years in prison if convicted in the latest case.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Santa-Fe-man-booked-on-9th-drunken-driving-charge-3701950.php

exalting the Individual above the collective and above its henchman, government

Our history will likely be taught not by us but by more successful cultures as the history of Carthage was taught by Rome and the descendants of Romain culture.

Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated

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I think you should take your gun and revolt, billy.

seriously...

Jefferson would agree with you seriously.........

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
Thomas Jefferson

I suspect that, nationwide, liberals have a collective orgasm
every time that thay succeed in reducing n limiting freedom of the American citizen.

I suspect that, nationwide, liberals have a collective orgasm
every time that thay succeed in reducing n limiting freedom of the American citizen.

You like to pick and choose your freedoms Dave.
Using technology to reduce drunk driving is something only idiots like Hawkeye and RM oppose.

The greatest assault [??] on Amercan personal freedom of late was the Patriot Act.

And it was your fellow conservatives, that had a collective orgasm when that pernicious piece of legislation was passed.