Reply #32: Where I used to live,

[Jed Dilligan]

anyplace I would go would be a 50-100 dollar cab ride from my place. (I hate suburbia.) Now I live in a small town and don't drive at all. Your ideas of what things cost and the availability of transit suggests you've only lived in large cities.

It doesn't matter what choices I would make, because even if I decided to be unusually responsible, most people wouldn't. Even if one drink was the limit and the penalty was being shot on sight, people would still drive drunk.

Why do you imagine such a law would have had any chance of saving your mother? Especially since the revenue from all the nightspots helps pay for the cops who would enforce it.