"John H" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:36:51 -0800, "Bill McKee"
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"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
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"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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"John H" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:27:21 -0600, Richard Casady
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:58:43 -0500, I am Tosk
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Why do you s'pose they didn't just make it a felony to drive with any
passenger in the car?

Many bad ideas are sold as ' for the children '

Casady

I agree with Tim. The children not in the car deserve protection also.
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John H

Guy blows 0.08 and a kid in the car. He goes to jail for more than a
year, felony, and the kid ends up in foster care, or the mom and kid
end
up sleeping in a shelter. Just like a lot of other mandatory
sentencing
laws. unintended consequenses rule.



So, by your philosophy we should not try to do the right thing. That's a
pretty low standard.

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Nom=de=Plume




Huh? Where is a mandatory felony for a 0.08 BAC the right thing? Other
studies have shown no difference in .08 and .1 BAC safety results. How
about if the guy is endangering the child, he gets arrested for that. Not
because he was driving safely and got pulled over for a bad brake light,
and
the cop does a BAC on him. So you have 2 drinks and get pulled over with
your neice in the car. You go to jail for at least a year. Definition of
a
felony, is the jail sentence is longer than a year. You going to get your
life together when you get out? No home, no business, and a record.


Damn, and here I'd thought you'd seen the light nomdeplum.

Again, I'm not in favor of mandatory sentences, which are just a way
to keep liberal judges from imposing 'no' sentence.

I'm thinking that most DWI drivers get stopped because they *did*
engage in driving activities that were dangerous or, at least,
illegal.
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John H


Yeah, there are lots of liberal judges who don't follow sentencing
guidelines. Same thing with governers.... like Huckabee???


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