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Or just doesn't care that he is a danger to the public.

How to get screwed in Nebraska.

A bucket of slop and some rubber boots?

One foggy night a drunk decided to take a nap. He said he thought he was in a parking lot, he was parked across both lanes of a two lane road, lights out, in a dark gray car. My youngest daughter did not see him until it was two late. Basalt bluff on one side of the road, river on the other. IT WAS HIS SIXTH CONVICTION and that did not count the times he skated.

Thankfully the good folks at Ford designed the Sable to self destruct while protecting the passengers. She was fine, car was dead, drunk was still passed out when police arrived and did not know he had been hit until they woke him up.

If it were up to me first offence would be a felony and minimum five years behind bars with hard labor. Second offenders would get the needle.

The guy blew an .11 he should never drive again let alone hunt or fish.

Sorry to see there are guys on this board that will stick up for a drunk driver.

Drunk drivers suck, but we are also talking about the loss of 2nd amendment rights over a non-felony. Where do you draw the line at losing those rights? It was drawn at a felony but not any more, at least in Lincoln.

Hang the Bastid.

You think a guy with 6 DUIs that's so wasted he can't tell the middle of the road from a parking lot is blowing a .11?

Yeah. 2 drinks at a Christmas party will blow a .11, yet we let 20'year olds with 4 kids from Mexico run over folks all day with a f250 and give them welfare dough to buy it, not counting the jokers from the Middle East and Mozambique.

It's not just misdemeanor DUI. Beat up your wife or girlfriend and misdemeanor domestic assault will separate you from your guns just as fast. Conduct your life in a civilized manor and your civil rights will remain intact.

"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." In other words, stop complaining.

Drunk drivers should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Don't come in here and try to take this argument off track... LOL.

Folks dulled on emotion will quiet freedoms ring.

Misdemeanor convictions should not affect your gun rights, or any other rights. Felonies are a different matter.

Mark

I believe in the death penalty for the first DUI offense!

We should exact the death penalty for anyone walking around with a loaded gun
They might just happen to kill someone.

PS. Folks who get caught doing 5!or more mph over the speed limit, too.

The guy in the OP blew the .11. The drunk napping across both lanes was a lot worse.

Still, a .11 should not drive again. Drink at home, have a designated driver or take a cab.

Totally agree. Too bad for him, but he is a danger to others. some folks just cannot control themselves and so penalties are the only solution.

Heck, I like a drink too. Here in Japan, the deterrents are very strong, since social drinking is such a part of the culture and locals have such low tolerance for alcohol that getting blotto is common. Drinkers are inured to using public transportation, taxis or designated drivers. After company outings, I've seen folks so drunk they literally could not stand up to get off the train. Coworkers seem very tolerant, though.

Since the trains typically stop running at around midnight, some elect to stay up all night. They are not going to take a chance on driving and getting caught because the authorities are, well, authoritarian.

First... idiot for living in Lincoln. Second... idiot for DUI. Loss of firearms for 10 years is a lot less inconveniencing than what the DUI could have done to somebody else.

But SERIOUSLY... Who the <bleep> would live in Lincoln? Anybody read that link that was posted? Give your 17 year old a shotgun to defend against the meth-heads that just moved in next door and become a criminal. Don't report to the city (for their gun registry) that you sold your AR or handgun to somebody and become a criminal. Leave a firearm unattended in a vehicle for 24 hours and 1 minute - become a criminal. Etc, etc.. Lincoln police chief and mayors hate gun owners and always have. They even have a history of scanning their gun registry when they add a new gun-ban misdemeanor looking for people convicted that misdemeanor and then raiding gun owners who now fall under the ban.

He'll be better off outside of Lincoln or Omaha. Now get him to AA and work on the drinking.

That's why I posted the link Calhoun. For all those that didn't read it the key words are in any jurisdiction.
Visitors beware. If you have a ccw and 1 beer and get caught you are done. 0 tolerance.
Carry openly in the city, get a ticket for disturbing the peace with a firearm. Done
Get caught shooting a BB gun in your back yard. Illegal discharge of a dangerous weapon. Done. And it goes on and on.
I don't drink and drive, I don't feel sorry for him on that, but it's a sad day when a low misdemeanor or even allowing a kid to have a BB gun or slingshot inside the city gets you on the prohibited list.

The drunk napping across both lanes was likely in the .20 plus, probably way plus range. What does that have to do with someone who had four or five beers to hit .11? Why even bring it up?