Does anyone remember about 20 years ago when the bars around town used to stay open all night? The drunks would sometime pass out at the table, sleep it off, and wake sometime later and drive home. Now with mandatory bar closings; all at the same time of night, we hear and see of all of these DWI fatalities that now seem to plague us. Bet if you trended the increase of accidents associated with DWI over the years you’d see that the trend increased concurrently with the mandatory bar closings. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you put all the drunks on the highways at the same time, you increase the risk factor of those who are sober. If society is really serious about drinking and driving, then let’s close all the bars for good. Or let’s just station DWI checkpoints one block away from the bars and arrest all those who leave. Sooner or later everyone would quit frequenting bars.  Why is it okay to make checkpoints miles away from the point of the problem? This just gives the drunks more space to potentially kill someone before the checkpoint. We’ll never get the public to support these actions because of all the revenue and jobs that bars generate. If you take away this revenue and jobs, someone else will have to pay. We have responsible adults out there that can moderate their drinking and safely drive, let’s just not put all the drunks on the road at the same time.

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