How do you feel about people that get a DUI?

Answer #1

I have no sympathy for them. They’re essentially saying that they simply don’t care if they kill somebody.

First offense: loss of driving rights for 1-2 years
Second offense: loss of driving rights for about 5 years and the government seizes their car.
Third offense onward: permanent loss of driving rights and seize the car they were driving.

Answered By: How_Would_I_Know [

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Answer #2

I think the punishment should be much much stronger.
It just makes me sick when they have these commercials on tv for dui lawyers where they have some dude saying “when I got my dui I called…” like it was something normal or a rite of passage or something. Just sick. It’s not normal and should not be acceptable to anyone. Everyone I know who has been in a serious car crash was hit by someone who was either drunk or high and my friends don’t even drink and are nice people who have been really hurt by these a**holes.

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Answer #3

at least a month in jail and 2 weeks fer low work, if they are old enough to drink they are old enough to know better.

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Answer #4

I got a DUI. I’m not concerned with admitting it. I know that a lot of cops and judges are guilty of the same offense and weren’t caught or were caught and told to have a nice day. I didn’t hurt anyone and it was only a misdemeanor anyway.

When the laws are truly equal for everyone, only then will I think I can pass judgment on someone else.

BTW, I wanted to say…cute dog…is that McGriff the Crime Dog?

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Answer #5

There should be a graduated scale, and i think that 0.08 is too low to be considered drunk.
Someone who is caught at 0.08 blood alcohol level is punished the same as someone who is 0.30, which is ludicrous.
There are thousands of accidents a day that happen because of idiots yacking on their cell phones. They should be punished equally as severe as someone who’s had 3 or 4 glasses of wine. When you are driving, you should be doing nothing else, not even eating a french fry. If you are distracted by eating, talking on a cell phone, text messaging, or buzzing off a few martinis, your punishment should be the same.
If you are completely intoxicated, then you should really be punished of course.
When an “important” person , such as a billionaire or politician is killed by a moron yacking on a cell fone, maybe there will be stricter laws banning their use. Until then, you and me will be at constant peril by this manace to society.

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Answer #6

I feel to drink and drive is a clear sign that you care about no one including yourself thus if you’re caught it should be much more than just a misdomeanor. DUI’s are one of the more serious driving infractions and if handled lightly there’s not much reason to prevent further occurances. I believe in the instance of someone being detained or cited with as a DUI they should go through a DUI-Specific police program where they get to meet the families of DUI-Related death victims and experience what they could have caused when they decided to get behind the wheel drunk. Then meeting someone in jail who had killed someone as a DUI. I think this may be better than jail time any day. Experience prevents future occurances.

Answered By: Garrett Graff [

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Answer #7

“If you want to play, you have to pay!” The key here is responsibility! If you drive after drinking and get caught! Shame on you! Pay your dues, and walk away! First time, stiff fine, restricted license for six months, daylight hours only! Second time, one years suspension of license, six months in jail, mandatory rehab, house arrest, monitored activities. Third offense, lifetime loss of drivers license, five years in jail, mandatory substance abuse counciling, five years monitored activities. By the way, I’m a drinker!!!

Answered By: Paully S [

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Answer #8

I have been hit by 3 drunk drivers and the last one was a bad one. Anyone who drinks and drives should be held 100% responsible for any and all harm or damage they caused.
1st offence a 500.00 fine
2nd offence a 5000.00 fine
3rd offence a 10,000.00 fine and 1 year license suspension.
4th offence permanent loss of driver’s license.

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Answer #9

I feel anger and disdain for people who have no compunction about risking OTHER people’s lives. Do what you want to yourself but not to others which includes children! I think they should go to jail on the first offense then MAYBE there won’t be so many repeat DUI charges. People with multiple DUI offenses should go to prison because they don’t give a crap! I’m sick of people getting 3, 4, and more DUI’s and driving without a license. I don’t think everyone’s lives should be in the hands of drunken fools. Let them kill themselves but not me, my family or some other innocent person who’s just driving to work or whatever. I have no patience with it at all!

Answered By: MissWong [

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Answer #10

I think DUIs are extremely serious offenses. I think, that it is a sincere lack of respect and control when you allow yourself to get too intoxicated to be able to legally operate a vehicle. Don’t get me wrong- I have had too much to drink, and I have driven a vehicle- many, many years ago. I am extremely lucky that I did not injure, mame, or kill myself, or anyone else. I also thank God that I was never “caught.”
My point is, now that I am older, and I consider myself a tad wiser, I realize that a lot of things, like DUIs, seemed trivial. But, I think the laws should be a little tougher for doing “stupid sh(*&@$ ”
I, for one, am glad that Paris has been held accountable for her continued poor judgement. (However, I do think she “got off” a little too easy.)
People just need to stop and think.

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Answer #11

They have issues.

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Answer #12

I think drunk drivers are scum. They are sociopaths who don’t care about others’ at all. They belong in jail. For a second offense, 5 years, no parole, no plea bargain.

Kent in SD

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Answer #13

People that drink and drive, have no respect for themselves or others. They cannot be very happy with their own life, to be drinking so much to start with. If they want to drink, then do not drive!

Answered By: Starwolf [

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Answer #14

I don’t think the punishment is enough.

Many “first time offenders” have driven under the influence multiple times, they just haven’t gotten caught.

I don’t like to interfere with personal liberty, but when you endanger other human beings…it could be your parents, sister, brother or child hurt or killed by some drunk just because they can’t drink responsibly…I have zero tolerance for that kind of behavior.

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Answer #15

They should be forced to read badly constructed sentences.

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Answer #16

When we drink, the first thing that goes is judgment. My friends and I rotate who will be designated driver. No one really likes it when it is their turn, but it works.
No one has the right to put other, innocent peoples lives in danger.
When I was 6, my best friend was hit by a drunk driver. Besides having her nose crammed into her brain & having her head split open for emergency brain surgery (and all the fights I had to take on to defend her from little kids who didn’t really know any better than to tease her for her scar and temporary baldness)…she will have to take medication for the rest of her life. Her family’s attorney was able to get her something like $ 500,000 after all was said and done…but she will never be free of the side effects of her medications…No big deal…yeah, right.
I know of alternative sentancing & things like 30 days of outpatient treatment…but this is absolutely wrong. People who will take their own lives and the lives of other at risk so they can get home with their own cars at the end of a night of drinking should lose thier driving priveleges for several years and do at least a month in jail. They need to grow up and reevaluate life. That is not something they can be learned by being coersed into rehab or by paying a large fine. If they never figure it out…f^ck them, they can take a cab!

Answered By: kissthemforme [

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Answer #17

This is a tough question because its the only major law that has a harsh punishment before you commit an actual crime.

The actual crime is reckless driving up to the point of at least manslaughter (although I do think they need a new level of homicide for reckless killing of others in an automobile, be it from impairment to racing) If convicted of that, the punishment should be harsh since you were not only a demonstrated danger to yourself, but others.

One unintended consequence of tougher laws is that those that are mildly impaired will drive beyond their ability (IE faster) to make up for the fact that if they are going slowly (30 mph) they will be pulled over. In addition they want to spend the least amount of time on the road. Thus the tougher laws may in some cases INCREASE accidents instead of decrease them.

I really am not sure the final answer though. Like preventative medicine it may be better to remove those that are impaired off the road () but the side effects may be worse than the prevention.

Personal Note: I drink so rarely its not even registerable and I would not drive if I did, but not because of DUI law but because I would not want to wreck my car or anyone else’s life.

Answered By: Ethaniel [

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