>>I'm for anything that protects me from being killed by idiots. I do not believe in relying on idiots to behave responsibly on their own.
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>No amount of legislation can protect you from being killed by an idiot. Despite all of the changes in DWI laws around the globe, people still get killed by drunks.
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>At some point, legislation becomes burdensome to the general population. DWI laws are a good case in point. The "legal limit" has been lowered in some states to the point that only one drink will put you in the hoosgow. Has it stopped people from drinking and driving? Not a bit.
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>This is not to say that I advocate the lifting of DWI laws. Not in the least. I just think that, at a certain point, things get taken too far to be useful.

I believe we need DWI laws. Here in Canada, the incidence of drinking and driving is on a downward slope. I think it's probably due more to education and folks like MADD than to the laws, but like you I wouldn't want the laws repealed. The laws aren't there to stop the problem, only to mitigate it and hopefully to allow the police to stop someone before he/she kills somebody else.

Without such a law, they wouldn't be able to stop someone until he caused damage or death.