Keeping families safe from alcoholism; keeping roads safe from DUI drivers; keeping people’s soul’s safe from the devil, etc. are the usual resons, but, in reality, banning the sale of alcohol in a county actually puts more lives at risk than it does to legally allow people to buy booze. Numbers from three of the states with the highest number of dry counties (Texas, Arkansas and Kentucky) show that, in reality, dry counties have 3.6 times higher DUI fatality rates, than their wet neighbors.
Which actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it: Just because alcohol can’t be sold in a county, doesn’t mean people will all stop drinking it. People who choose to, will just drive to go get it. And the further they have to drive, the more likely they are to get a DUI or be involved in a DUI fatality.
Take Texas for example: one of the biggest states in the country, which is also riddled with dry counties - a combination that results in Texas having more drunk driver fatalities than any other state in the nation. 616 deaths in 2024 alone, according to Texas Department of Transportation. Courtesy of TheRooster.com.
This is the same pocket knife I've been carrying since I was 12.
My father gave me my first one when I went in to Scouts.
I'm on my 5th or 6th one. Don't leave one without one...
I never would have thought that.
ReplyDeleteTexas has very convoluted drinking and driving laws. Back in the mid 80's they had an open container law, you could drive with an open container. A DWI was .08 and DUI was .11 percent alcohol. I got pulled along with 2 of my buddies over on our motorcycles as we had open containers. I blew a .08 for a DWI. It took 20 minutes to see a judge who found me guilty and charged me a $50 fine then released me. We were all still buzzed and walked 4 blocks to where our bikes were parked on the side of the road. We were in the Air Force. That DWI never showed up in my driving record.
ReplyDeleteHi Joe!!!
ReplyDeleteHave to look in the "Knife box!!" there is at lest one or two.. along with the similar "stock knife 3 blade folder!!' by Camilus for one and some unknowns I picked up long the way!! Also remember from Boy Scout daze Mid 1950's the $1.98 "Kamp King" 4 blade folder 3" clip, awl, a bottle opener/screwdriver and a can opener!!! Those were daze gone by...
Now...... WOW!!! Well I'll start with the BUCK 110 Folding Hunter ... been thru a few!! and have a "50th anniv. edition" one in the archive!!
TWO THINGS a MAN can never have too many of.... GUNS AND KNIVES!!!!
and also the Author Rudyard Kipling once said......
"A Man can never have too many Books,
enough Red Wine
or too much Ammo!!!!"
I liked the way he thinks!!!!!
Audentes, Fortuna, Iuvavat,
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