Politicians focus on seat belt laws and left-hand lane driving, choosing to ticket and fine those offenses but when it comes to effectively punishing dangerous crime, they fail miserably.
Drinking alcohol is a freedom until one hurts another with their body, a weapon or a vehicle. Then your freedom is over and you get arrested, go to jail and if there is any justice, prison. You kill someone then you just forfeited your freedom for the rest of your life. The victim isn’t getting out of death after a short while. There’s no reprieve for them or their loved ones. You just gave them a death sentence.
If you wreck someone’s body and they live you go to prison and work off the financial debt at minimum wage. If you never pay it off you never get out.
Harsh? Certainly. Could I be guilty or my loved ones be guilty one day and face the consequences suggested? Certainly. And as horrific as it would be, the punishment would be just.
It’s time for politicians to quit faking their way through their terms, quit enacting laws that over-govern on less-than-necessary issues and start devoting their time to saving people from crime.
