DUI Common Sense on WLW

Today, Mike McConnell of 700 WLW had on the director of Mother’s Against Drunk Driving.  Predictably she decried the possibility of treating 18 year-olds like adults and letting them drink beer by reducing the drinking age (as advocated by a group of college administrators).  She went as far as saying adult men and women’s brains were not developed enough to handle the beer.  The host confronted her assertion that the restrictive drinking age of 21 had caused a drop in deaths (NO IT DIDN’T) and even challenged her grossly inflated “deaths caused by alcohol” statistics.  When confronted with statistics she played the greiving family card.  When confronted with common sense proposals she stuck her head in the sand by saying that drinking does not occur because of the law.  When Mike said that we have gone too far as a culture when the State is threatening to take his house if he lets his daughters friends drink a beer (THOSE WHO HOST LOSE THE MOST), she denied any knowledge of the law or its ubiquitous advertising.  What was striking was the response of the callers to this predictable drivel.

Hurray to the callers who said that it is time to stand up to the “mommy culture” that seeks to control legal behavior with ever-harsher laws.  If today is any indication, we are the silent and cowed majority who are aching for a way to stop the constant attack on our rights by a group of prohibitionists.  The interview ended with a chilling warning that MADD views these issues as health and safety issues not as personal freedom issues. It is chilling to think that our legislature listens to these people.  Push Back!!

Tell Mike you appreciate his point of view at www.700WLW.com.