[sammyg2]

Hypothetically:

Suppose you were the father of a 17 year old girl who was minding her own business and was killed by a drunk driver with three convictions on his record yet was still driving. Drunk.
Would you still oppose random check points?
That happened to someone I work with.


OK different hypothetical scenario:
suppose your wife was jogging along pacific coast highway in the middle of the day and was run over by a drunk driver who didn't have a license because of prior DUI's and had just been let out of a half-way house.
Your wife is now a quadriplegic and can't take care of herself, much less her two young kids. Her medical bills are into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and her in-home care will add up to about 70% of your take-home pay.
How would you think about random DUI checkpoints?
That actually happened to a friend of the family.


People suck. Letting people get away with sucking because you don't want to be inconvenienced for 15 seconds sucks too.

I'd gladly give up 15 seconds of my time to help make sure some POS doesn't kill someone I care about.

If we could keep the sucky people off the road we wouldn't need check points. But it's against the law to shoot them, go figure.