<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by rob_h:
Thank yoy for your compassion and understanding, the offences occurred 10 years ago. Sense then I have gone through AA
and been alcohol free. My driving record has been perfect also I volunteer to help others with their problems. Your ability to understand someone's else's mistakes makes me glade you were not my defense lawyer.
Sorry for asking a question so stupid. I won't bother you again.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
My response:
Compassion? Understanding? Why? The best evidence around, despite your "new" facts that you failed to state in your first posting, reveals that alcoholism is a disease of the brain, or is part of the DNA structure, that never fully heals. In other words, and despite your AA meetings, your current clean record, you could, in fact, fall back on the bottle, get drunk, and shoot someone - - perhaps during one of your depressed stages. If you are predisposed to alcohol, society should keep you away from those mechanical objects that can kill; e.g., cars and guns.
No sir. My opinion does not change. You should not be driving, and you should not be a gun owner. Once those privileges have been abused, in the manner in which you abused them, society should not have to take a "chance" on you ever again. Society does not, and need not, be YOUR experiment to find out whether you can "hold it together."
In other words, kind sir, if you did it once (or more times), the odds are that sometime again in your life, you'll drink and drive again. Or you'll drink, get drunk, and shoot someone you may have been upset with.
No thank you. You lost your chance.
IAAL
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