Almost exactly 3 years after that P.O.S. drunk driver/3-time loser/driving under a suspended license crossed the median, went airborne, killed himself and took out a young married couple and the bride's parents on Christmas Eve in Knox County.
But hey! Cheers!
[cheers]
Dry or wet, that'll still happen. There's always a jackass who will ruin it for the rest of us. But, just like with guns, you can't go banning them for everyone because one person messed up.
I would argue drunken driving is worse in a dry county because people who have to drive 40 miles to purchase a LEGAL product will drink some on their way back into the 1920s. But if the store is only 5 minutes from home, they probably can wait until they get back to safety before cracking open a cold one.
The county I live in came out of the stone age in 2011. The religious folks were predicting gloom and doom and death and end times and all that other crap. DUIs went up the first year and have decreased significantly each subsequent year. In other words, blue laws are trash and achieve the exact opposite of what they're trying to accomplish.
