Skill level is going to be low when someone first begins doing something. I personally think we should have a graduated system, with an extensive period during which you're restricted to daylight hours and only with a liscensed adult, with gradually fewer restrictions coming with age.
However, even in the current system, young drivers are poorer as a group not because they choose to impair themselves, but because they are in the initial learning stage, and will grow out of it.
Drunk driving is a deliberate choice to drive while impaired, risking the lives of every other person on the road. Any person who chooses to drive after deliberatly impairing their ability to do so should no longer be permitted to drive.
I've got no problem with second degree murder. I think the sentence was too light.
Gilda
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