by Richard Berman
About the author: Richard Berman is general counsel of the American Beverage Institute, an association of restaurant operators that serve alcohol.
Say you and your neighbors are fed up with a few speeders who continue to race through your neighborhood. While most drivers obey the posted 25 mph speed limit, a couple of reckless fools consistently drive 50 mph or more, especially on weekend nights. Two solutions are proposed at the next neighborhood meeting: Either demand better police enforcement of the posted limit or drop the limit from 25 mph to 20 mph. Which would you choose"
That is the essence of the traffic-safety debate now being played out in Congress about the drunk-driving problem. In an effort to reduce drunk-driving deaths, two Democrats, Rep. Nita Lowey of New York and Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, proposed redefining the problem to.....
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