First offense punishment should be harsh- anything past offense 1, exponentially so.
I don't like hearing this "if no one got hurt" bullshit. That just means we were lucky. One drunk driver can kill many people at any time- including the first time.
People die all the time at the hands of these careless assholes. I don't know why some people are so flippant about it, or give them so much leverage.
If you do it once and learn from it and never do it again, good for you- but there are many people who do it time and time again, and those people are scumbags. I have no sympathy for a person with such reckless disregard for the lives of other people.
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