Sunday morning my wife was watching the news. She said that a drunk woman had entered the freeway going the wrong way and before she was done had killed seven people who were minding their own business. This comes home to us because we were once in a car that was missed by inches and saw the car behind us nailed head on.
How does someone kill seven people while driving drunk and survive? And this is a daily occurrence. I wonder if we will find that this lady has a history of DUI’s. I wonder if she has killed before? I wonder if marijuana or other drugs were also involved. The answers to those questions will not make the news.
People scream about guns and we do little about DUI’s.
Maybe we should register cars. Maybe we should require people to have a license to drive. How about a minimum age for driving? Maybe we should require training before people drive. Maybe we should require regular renewals of all the above. Maybe we should require all kinds of safety equipment. What’s that you say? We do all that? If it doesn’t stop the killers in cars how do they do-gooders expect it to stop gun violence.
Drive defensively until a better solution comes up.
homo unius libri
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