XPost: can.politics, bc.politics, van.general   
   XPost: vic.general   
   From: beaver@stew.tasty   
      
   On 1/19/2012 1:36 AM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:   
   > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:48:05 -0800, Çons®36% wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> Whatever it takes . . . .  by whoever decides enough is enough.   
   >>   
   >> BC decided that the ".08" allowance just wasn't keeping the drunks off   
   >> the roads and they brought in some very tough legislation that involved   
   >> CONFISCATION of vehicles on top of long licence suspensions.  And guess   
   >> what ? . . . . ___________________________ Vancouver Sun - November 23,   
   >> 2011   
   >>   
   >> Alcohol-related traffic deaths down 40 per cent in B.C.   
   >>   
   >> Drop follows B.C.'s introduction of tough new drinking and driving rules   
   >>   
   >> Alcohol-related deaths have dropped 40 per cent in the year since B.C.'s   
   >> tough new drinking and driving rules took effect, Premier Christy Clark   
   >> announced Wednesday.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Lowering the BAC limit for legal sanction appears to have had   
   > no good effect on driving, and in fact may contribute to the   
   > recent spike in lethal impaired rates because there's no perceived   
   > value to limiting intake since the same legal sanctions apply   
   > to a glass of wine as to a forty-pounder of JD.  That's what   
   > zero-tolerance begets: intemperance.   
      
   Yup.  The penalty of chopping off hands and feet for thievery resulted   
   in a lot of people without... hands and feet.  At a certain point the   
   deterrence factor becomes nil...   
      
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