TX Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for 9th DWI

[Tod]

The question seems to me to boil down to this: how do you safeguard others from someone who is hellbent on killing someone with a car and who holds no regard for either the law or other people's lives? He has evidently made AT LEAST one attempt, probably more. Should he be excused because he isn't as competent as some drunk drivers at ruining other people's lives?

 

[Dr.3D]

Really, it shouldn't be illegal to drink and drive. It should be illegal to cause damage using a vehicle while being drunk.

 

[tod evans]

Yeah, I am not to broken up by your disapproval, uncle.


When/if you ever figure out the difference between Liberty and the license displayed by a self-absorbed cretin let me know, k.

Be delighted, you live anywhere near the Ozarks?

I'd like nothing more than to help you understand..

 

[Anti Federalist]

Oh, and in honor of this thread, I'll now be sure to knock back a few vodka martinis at dinner and drive home.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Really, it shouldn't be illegal to drink and drive. It should be illegal to cause damage using a vehicle while being drunk.

It already is.

 

[Dr.3D]

It already is.

So there is no need to go after people who have been drinking and are driving.

 

[hrdman2luv]

Or just sell his car and give him a horse / bicycle.

Oh wait, it's probably illegal to ride horses nowadays

I knew of a guy who got a DWI in east Texas while riding his horse.. Also, one that got a DWI while driving his tractor.

 

[Dr.3D]

I knew of a guy who got a DWI in east Texas while riding his horse.. Also, one that got a DWI while driving his tractor.

Why? Was the horse drunk?

 

[truelies]

...................Many of my rights could pose risk to your life and limb.

.............

Where did you ever come up with the idea that YOU have a 'right' to put other people's lives at risk?

Either you are a Fed here trolling perhaps to lure some fools into acts against the State or you are a Fool too simple to understand that Rights carry Responsibility.

 

[Anti Federalist]

So there is no need to go after people who have been drinking and are driving.

Nope.

"Obviously impaired" and "driving to endanger" is already illegal.

So is causing damage or injury or death with a motor vehicle.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Where did you ever come up with the idea that YOU have a 'right' to put other people's lives at risk?

Either you are a Fed here trolling perhaps to lure some fools into acts against the State or you are a Fool too simple to understand that Rights carry Responsibility.

I have a right to own guns.

I exercise that right.

Even with due diligence, my guns could possibly be stolen and used to kill innocent people.

Even with due diligence, I could mistakenly kill somebody myself.

People have a right to a fair trial and due process, even though that means, properly applied, guilty people would sometimes go free.

You want to abolish that as well?

 

[truelies]

Oh, and in honor of this thread, I'll now be sure to knock back a few vodka martinis at dinner and drive home.

Here's hoping a barney busts your stupid ass. At least while he is running you in and filling out the paperwork innocent dogs will be safe.

 

[anaconda]

Could this not have been resolved by barring him from having a drivers license?

A lot of the "habitual" offenders don't care about a license. They just get in and drive. On the other hand, isn't Texas the state where you get lethal injection for stealing an Almond Joy from the convenience store? Just as at the federal level, the state legislatures seem to run amok with laws that enslave their people and contribute to the coffers. But, if we could return the emphasis to the states, these kinds of stories would begin to have a "competitive" effect throughout the land. People would take these kinds of things into consideration when deciding where to live.

 

[Tod]

Nope, but she gets to spend her remaining days on the miscreant res and her Property gets confiscated to 100% of the amount required to make her vics whole.......and YES if one dies so should she.


Why do you have such trouble with personal responsibilty, sport?

Without individual responsibility and morality, there can be no individual liberty.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ~ John Adams

 

[Tod]

I have a right to own guns.

I exercise that right.

Even with due diligence, my guns could possibly be stolen and used to kill innocent people.

Even with due diligence, I could mistakenly kill somebody myself.

The second amendment does not allow you to go about randomly shooting at innocent people; the equivalent of driving drunk.

edit: It would be absurd to think that it is okay to take a gun down to my local shopping mall and randomly shoot into the crowds of shoppers, so long as I don't hit anyone.

 

[AGRP]

Or just sell his car and give him a horse / bicycle.

Oh wait, it's probably illegal to ride horses nowadays

+ rep

Or this. Problem will most likely be solved the next time he gets in a wreck.

 

[truelies]

..............Even with due diligence, ..............

No, more like lazy irresponsibility. Your right to own a weapon does not extent to a 'right' to directly put others a risk. Drinking & then driving is simply NOT 'due diligence' in exercising a right to consume adult subtrances. Ya could for example take a taxi home, fool.

 

[truelies]

this statement says more about this poster than I ever could.

Yeah mostly that he is a better man than you will ever be.

 

[truelies]

Be delighted, you live anywhere near the Ozarks?

I'd like nothing more than to help you understand..

best you stay where you are at, uncle. Folks of your sort find my community a decidely unhealthy place to visit.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Here's hoping a barney busts your stupid ass. At least while he is running you in and filling out the paperwork innocent dogs will be safe.

It's people like you "law and order" types that have given cops the idea that they have free reign to terrorize us and shoot our dogs whenever they feel that their "safety" is threatened in the slightest way.

Nice work.