Something must change

Arguably, our law makers and the courts have not found the right combination of approaches to tackle driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence, and just plain drunk driving. 

For example, in San Diego a 19 year faces trial for an accident in which multiple innocent people were killed.  He was reportedly involved in three previous accidents in a short period and was driving on a revoked license.  The revocation was totally ineffective, as witnessed by the deaths in this accident.  Why did he have access to an automobile?  Where is the hue and cry to confiscate his car, similar to hue and cry to confiscate firearms?

In another mind boggling example, "Democrats on the Charlotte, North Carolina City Council have asked the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) to 'cut back' on enforcement of drunk-driving laws in neighborhoods with large illegal immigrant populations, because illegal immigrants apparently are 'nervous to see the cops.'”  Are these local officials not aware of the very real and present danger drunk drivers pose in the community?

And here is a report from Idaho of a drunk driving man convicted of killing a young mother, but receiving no prison time.  Is not the judge aware of the propensity for recidivism by drunk drivers, like told in this story of a woman causing the death of three, including herself, while driving drunk...after four previous DUI convictions?  (Of course, no one will know how many times she drove drunk and did not get apprehended or hit someone.) 

From inadequate laws; to complacent, inept judges; to utterly stupid local officials, the entire system is not aggressively attacking this wholly preventable loss of life.

Something must change.