Drinking and DrivingEssay title: Drinking and DrivingDrinking and DrivingDrinking and driving can cause a lifetime of pain. When you get under the wheel while you are intoxicated not only are you putting yourself at risk, but also the lives of other innocent people are in danger. Everyone should have the right to drink but if you act irresponsibly, your right should be taken away. Each person is liable to suffer the consequences from endangering others. One who drives drunk not only should have their license taken away, they should have the right to drink taken away. Drinking and driving may not seem like a big deal until you see what happens when things go wrong. I would like you to read a personal narrative that Casey McCary Bloom wrote who is now serving 21 years to life in prison.
The Legalities of Drinking and Driving In the United States – by David B. Taylor
In 1982, two states, Arizona and Wisconsin, passed laws providing for people to drive under the influence in private.
The Arizona law, which allowed individuals to drive under the influence without drinking or driving (as well as those with other mental or physical problems and those with minor mental problems), was based around basic principles of driving on a personal basis and was supposed to address a problem as simple as a drunken driving stop with a minor or high blood alcohol level. People also had to be sober the entire time so it was a very important step in preventing accidents.
However, since people would be required to drink and drive in California for 15 years, and only a handful of these people got the chance to change the law, driving and drinking could be considered a serious, life-threatening felony.
Arizona’s law required that a “viable condition” be broken during a sobering driver’s state of intoxication or, if the law went against the rules in the state, in jail. This would mean that these 21-year-olds would be prohibited from driving under the influence, either because the state was in violation of their constitutional rights for driving as a result of intoxication or because they simply didn’t feel that driving and drinking made them unsafe.
In order to provide drivers with a break from these legal rules, Arizona also prohibited their employees from driving under the influence after drinking (in effect suspending them.)
The Wisconsin law, which was enacted because of its impact on the state’s ability to safely and effectively regulate driving and drinking, was a direct attack on people’s liberties. It banned drinking and driving.
In Michigan, it prohibited alcohol for the second time. It was repealed in 2006 after being successfully challenged in court. (It was also repealed by the Wisconsin legislature in 2008 under a provision that required the Michigan Legislature to take a “reconsideration” of the matter at trial and take additional action to reclassify it.)
This is where we start to see the tragic effect this policy has had on communities across the United States. The law was made very difficult for people to keep safe when they were under the influence. It is easy to get drunk and drive and the laws were also very hard for people to enforce. It also seems that other states have enacted similar laws which could have worked to protect young people in their 20s, but these laws don’t have the same impact as the law would have (they are still in place now).
Despite the fact that it may not have affected a lot of people or that Michigan was the first where driving under the influence was illegal, Arizona has still been passed in the state legislature. It looks like that would cause the law to lose its effectiveness.
The Legalities of Drinking and Driving In the United States – by David B. Taylor
In 1982, two states, Arizona and Wisconsin, passed laws providing for people to drive under the influence in private.
The Arizona law, which allowed individuals to drive under the influence without drinking or driving (as well as those with other mental or physical problems and those with minor mental problems), was based around basic principles of driving on a personal basis and was supposed to address a problem as simple as a drunken driving stop with a minor or high blood alcohol level. People also had to be sober the entire time so it was a very important step in preventing accidents.
However, since people would be required to drink and drive in California for 15 years, and only a handful of these people got the chance to change the law, driving and drinking could be considered a serious, life-threatening felony.
Arizona’s law required that a “viable condition” be broken during a sobering driver’s state of intoxication or, if the law went against the rules in the state, in jail. This would mean that these 21-year-olds would be prohibited from driving under the influence, either because the state was in violation of their constitutional rights for driving as a result of intoxication or because they simply didn’t feel that driving and drinking made them unsafe.
In order to provide drivers with a break from these legal rules, Arizona also prohibited their employees from driving under the influence after drinking (in effect suspending them.)
The Wisconsin law, which was enacted because of its impact on the state’s ability to safely and effectively regulate driving and drinking, was a direct attack on people’s liberties. It banned drinking and driving.
In Michigan, it prohibited alcohol for the second time. It was repealed in 2006 after being successfully challenged in court. (It was also repealed by the Wisconsin legislature in 2008 under a provision that required the Michigan Legislature to take a “reconsideration” of the matter at trial and take additional action to reclassify it.)
This is where we start to see the tragic effect this policy has had on communities across the United States. The law was made very difficult for people to keep safe when they were under the influence. It is easy to get drunk and drive and the laws were also very hard for people to enforce. It also seems that other states have enacted similar laws which could have worked to protect young people in their 20s, but these laws don’t have the same impact as the law would have (they are still in place now).
Despite the fact that it may not have affected a lot of people or that Michigan was the first where driving under the influence was illegal, Arizona has still been passed in the state legislature. It looks like that would cause the law to lose its effectiveness.
The Legalities of Drinking and Driving In the United States – by David B. Taylor
In 1982, two states, Arizona and Wisconsin, passed laws providing for people to drive under the influence in private.
The Arizona law, which allowed individuals to drive under the influence without drinking or driving (as well as those with other mental or physical problems and those with minor mental problems), was based around basic principles of driving on a personal basis and was supposed to address a problem as simple as a drunken driving stop with a minor or high blood alcohol level. People also had to be sober the entire time so it was a very important step in preventing accidents.
However, since people would be required to drink and drive in California for 15 years, and only a handful of these people got the chance to change the law, driving and drinking could be considered a serious, life-threatening felony.
Arizona’s law required that a “viable condition” be broken during a sobering driver’s state of intoxication or, if the law went against the rules in the state, in jail. This would mean that these 21-year-olds would be prohibited from driving under the influence, either because the state was in violation of their constitutional rights for driving as a result of intoxication or because they simply didn’t feel that driving and drinking made them unsafe.
In order to provide drivers with a break from these legal rules, Arizona also prohibited their employees from driving under the influence after drinking (in effect suspending them.)
The Wisconsin law, which was enacted because of its impact on the state’s ability to safely and effectively regulate driving and drinking, was a direct attack on people’s liberties. It banned drinking and driving.
In Michigan, it prohibited alcohol for the second time. It was repealed in 2006 after being successfully challenged in court. (It was also repealed by the Wisconsin legislature in 2008 under a provision that required the Michigan Legislature to take a “reconsideration” of the matter at trial and take additional action to reclassify it.)
This is where we start to see the tragic effect this policy has had on communities across the United States. The law was made very difficult for people to keep safe when they were under the influence. It is easy to get drunk and drive and the laws were also very hard for people to enforce. It also seems that other states have enacted similar laws which could have worked to protect young people in their 20s, but these laws don’t have the same impact as the law would have (they are still in place now).
Despite the fact that it may not have affected a lot of people or that Michigan was the first where driving under the influence was illegal, Arizona has still been passed in the state legislature. It looks like that would cause the law to lose its effectiveness.
One weekend, seven of us decided to take a trip down from college to my parents beach cottage in Panama City [Florida]. We were three guys and four girls celebrating our last weekend before beginning our sophomore year. We unloaded the cars and prepared for bed. I did not know then, but it was the last decent nights sleep I would have. We got up the next morning, loaded the cooler with beer and headed for the beach. We laughed, drank and exchanged stories from our freshman year. After finishing an enormous meal, we continued to drink and dance until 1:00 a.m. We had to get back to school early the next day, so we decided to fill the car with gas and get more cigarettes that night. My friend and I hopped in his truck, me in the drivers seat and he in the passenger seat, and headed to an all-night convenience store. We found one store open about two miles down the road. We pulled in, gassed up and headed back to the beach house. It was a straight shot, just a few minutes down a four-lane highway.
As we approached the turn leading back to the beach house, my life flashed before my eyes in one terrifying fraction of a second. Our truck violently crashed into another car carrying four teenagers.
Young, pretty, 17-year-old Donnelle McGraw, who was in the back seat of the other car, was killed instantly. The other back seat passenger, Mark Weber, was critically injured and was in a coma for a week. The passenger in my car went through the windshield. This horrifying experience seemed to be a nightmare. It wasnt until I was told Donnelle had died that I became aware that this nightmare was indeed a horrible reality.
I will never forget the screaming and crying that I heard that night. When the police arrived, I was questioned, handcuffed and arrested. I was charged with two felony counts–driving-under-the-influence (DUI) manslaughter and DUI serious bodily injury. I was booked into Bay County jail. When I woke the next day, I felt