A Sure-Fire way to make Drunk Driving Disappear - Who's in? Spread the word

A bigger killer than war continues on and on and on...
Soldiers Killed in WW I + WW II + Vietnam: 594,161
DUI Related Deaths Since WW I: 1.7 Million (estimate)

Current War:
2007: Soldiers Killed in Iraq: 4,013
2007: DUI Deaths: Estimated 17,600 (41% of all traffic fatalities)

All of us have cell phones now a days.  When you're out and about and you see someone driving in a drunken manor whip out your cell phone and save some innocent lives by doing something so EASY; call 911 and direct law enforcement to pull that driver over!  Don't assume someone else will do it. YOU do it and avoid Kitty Genovese Syndrome.  Bad Samaritans let drunk drivers kill innocent people every day.  Remember this.. Everyone you love and care about are on the same roads as the drunk driving killers.

This is exactly how we make Drunk Driving Disappear and save literally thousands of innocent lives every year.  Every 30 minutes someone making the decision NOT to drink and drive is killed by someone making the decision to drink and drive.  Is their a bigger infringement on personal freedom or even on the freedom to simply live?  Then there is the sorrow for the surviving loved ones.

If the offenders are put on notice that EVERYONE is a potential de facto police dispatcher then they will be deterred from drinking and driving in the first place.  I'd seriously bet my new house that drunk driving will disappear by 90%-99% if WE law abiding people step up and use our cell phones!  At first there would be a HUGE wave of drunk driving arrests.  It would serve as a very 'sobering' wake up call - pun intended.  After the wake up call they would surely be deterred because not even a drunk is willing to suddenly ruin their life over night.  They are willing to slowly ruin their life over a period of time for instant gratification, much like drug addicts, but they will not make a decision that will ruin there life if the consequences can be felt over night.  That's just a fact of human nature that we should be harnessing to make drunk driving disappear.  We CANNOT rely on the police to do all the work for us.  WE must work with the police.  Self reliance is what built this country and made our country so great.  Lets take our roads back, literally save our lives, and put an end to something we have power over IF we just exercise that power!  We are so up in arms over war deaths, something we have virtually no power over, all the while as a nation we have ALL the power to stop Drunk Drivers and we are seemingly to apathetic about this killer that kills more than the war machine.  And it would be so EASY to do if we just use our cell phones!

If you think it doesn't affect you and if you don't really care to do your part watch my video "Start caring and hate apathy enough to kill it"

Deterrence is a powerful thing.   Look at it on a different more grand scale.  During the cold war we built the worlds largest nuclear arsenal, not because we had any plans of using them, but so that we'd never have to use them or even so much as witness another nation using one of theirs on another nation.  Our nuclear program was a deterrence and it worked!   The same holds true about gun violence.  The overwhelming majority of gun violence is condensed to areas in our country where local ordinances disarm law abiding people.  Gun wielding criminals condense to those areas and kill both innocent and non innocent people every day.  If they try that in areas where any law abiding person could be "packing heat" they know it's a potential suicide mission and most criminals aren't on suicide missions so they are deterred from those areas where any law abiding person could be "packing heat".

So who's in?  Who will be the good Samaritan who dials 911 on their cell phone to report drunk drivers?  It's so easy!  I hope you don't let it fall on someone elses shoulder no matter how many people are present at the scene.  We have the power to deter.  It's too easy and too costly not to exercise that power!  So then if we have the power why must we let a bigger killer than war continue on and on and on???  My call to action is for everyone to stop that and use our cell phones!!!

Tom
 p.s. In addition to the deaths there are also the severely injured and maimed.  Look at just one example of many and then see if you're still willing to let someone else call 911 http://www.rachelelliott.org/Drunk_Driving_Statistics.html