Do you think drunk drivers who kill should be put in jail accused of "murder" ?

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Or should they serve some time, and then be released. This is a tough on here. I was watching the CBS News this morning, and they
were talking about people who text while driving. And then it was
about people who drive drunk. There is nothing more in the world
that I hate, more than a drunk driver. In fact, I was almost hit by one,
just a few years ago over the Christmas Holidays. Anyway, there
are people who are selfish, and dont want to be held responsible for
some of their actions. They get drunk at a club, then they feel like
they can risk the lives of themselves and others just by driving home
filled with alcohol. This does not make any sense, and too many
of them are getting off too easy. If you are drunk, and you get in
behind the wheel of a car, then you should pay the highest cost.
I dont care who you are, you can kill someone ! Use common
sense, and stop being careless. It is something you need to think
about when you are in that position. Seek help immediately, ok.
Now. Do you think that people who kill others while driving drunk
should be convicted for murder ? The drunk driving victims rate is
very, very high here in the states. Some wind up dead, or hurt badly.
What do you think..................
 
unless they had a DWI before maybe they should be tried harsher but under murder, no
 
I think they should go to jail for murder if they killed someone, attempted murder if they hurt someone. It's not me or my kids fault if someone drinks and then is stupid enough to drive. I also think that if you are caught drunk driving you should have your license taken away asap, and if caught again with no license doing it you should be thrown in jail. I have NO sympathy for drunk drivers.
 
No; I think that would be trivializing to people who have lost loved ones to actual murder.

"Murder" isn't just killing someone (or even killing someone in a particularly bad way); it's one of many legal categories for causing someone's death that's particularly harshly punished because it involves intent. Murderers are people who set out to kill someone specific, and do so (second-degree murderers are people who make that decision on the spot and carry out the act quickly after conceiving of it).

Drunk driving is infuriating particularly when it harms someone, but it is very appropriately categorized as a form of reckless endangerment (which becomes reckless manslaughter if it results in a death). That's what the category means: when you cause someone's death not intentionally, but where it was helped along by an extremely dangerous activity that a reasonable person could be expected to avoid. Because it's an unusually common form of reckless manslaughter, it's usually given its own category ('reckless vehicular manslaughter,' or sometimes even specifically 'drunk driving'), and the penalties for doing it (whether it causes a death or not) are higher than most forms of reckless endangerment in most places.
 
No, murder is an intentional act, and in really, in the cases of a drunken driver, they should be punished but not accused of murder.

Driving is a privilege, and not a God-given right like most people think, and if someone breaks the law by "driving while intoxicated" or "driving while texting" or "driving while putting on makeup," and causes an accident and a serious injury, they should be punished in some form, but not for murder. If a person were to die from this accident, the murder is not intentional.
 
When you choose to drive drunk, you are choosing to commit a crime- no matter what problems that will cause. People who cut down 100 year old Arizona Cactus get more time in prison than some of those who kill someone while driving drunk. While I can understand it was an accident, it was not an accident to take the keys under the inlfluence. It's much more than negligent driving.

A 36 year old mom and RN was driving home from caring for her ailing mother at 2am over a causway where I live, a man my mother works with was driving the *wrong* way on the causeway, struck her car and she went over the side, killing her. He was back at work in 3 months. I have no idea how this is possible. The worst part? He doesn't comprehend the severity of his actions. When my mother talked to him about he blamed it on the liquor, and the bar, but not himself.

Men like that deserve to see hard time until they figure out what they did was so, so wrong. He'll only do it again.
 
The first penalty for DWI/DUI needs to be more harsh.

Mandatory Breath Alcohol Ignition Interlock Device installation for DWI. Mandatory drug screens for DUI. All at the offender's expense. License suspension does not work. 60-80% of people with suspended licenses continue to drive.

If you choose to not drive and/or posess or own a vehicle, you can wear a SCRAM alcohol monitor on your ankle.

Repeat offenders should serve prison time. You were given an opportunity to learn how dangerous this behavior is. You will now forfeit your freedom for it.

Drinking and driving (or driving high) is an excercise in bad judgement. The intent is not malicious. But it is very serious.

It's already prison-time for killing or injuring a first responder due to DWI. Aren't our families worth the same as our Police, Firefighters, and Paramedics?
 
A murder charge requires intent. If you pick up a stick and smash someones head in and kill them that's murder.

In DWI's the intent is not there.
 
A murder charge requires intent. If you pick up a stick and smash someones head in and kill them that's murder.

In DWI's the intent is not there.
 
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