The dui problem?

Various propaganda resources would have you believe that Indiana and America have a DUI problem. They spin tales of doom and paint a completely unrealistic picture regarding the number of accidents and fatalities occurring due to drunk drivers on our roads.

To be sure, anybody who has lost a loved one in an auto accident can certainly say and find agreement with most logical humans that they have experienced a tragic loss.

Unfortunately, the doomsayers express moral outrage if the accident in which a person was killed involved drinking, even if the consumption of alcohol had nothing to do with the cause of the accident, even if a dangerous drunk driver was not involved, but simply the presence of alcohol was part of the scenario.

This in itself is a tragic turn. It demeans the loss of those families who put a loved one to their final rest in all other kinds of accidents regardless of who was at fault or what circumstances were involved.

Sadly, many people who have experienced a loss in a fatal auto accident where alcohol was involved are led to believe they are entitled to a special kind of grief. They are also shaped to support the notion that punishment and vengeance on the individual, as well as the group, representing responsibility for that loss should be pursued at an ongoing, ever more stringent level regardless of the global facts involved in the issue.

This ideal of vengeance regarding drinking drivers is today reaching toward the peak of frenzy as more and more resources, more and more unforgiving punishments, and more and more constitutionally suffocating laws are put in place to satisfy a nearly unquenchable thirst for getting even and ultimately, enacting a new prohibition in our nation.

An ever-widening net has been cast to apprehend and punish all drinking drivers at any and all levels as payback for the transgressions of the excruciatingly miniscule few.