>>>>I went through a phase in college where I just didn't care anymore, and three times in one week I got hammered, jumped in my car, and went cruising. On the morning after the third time I got a call in the morning that my close friend was killed the night before when he was driving drunk, ran a stop sign, and smashed into an SUV, paralyzing the driver. That effectively ended my drunk driving days.
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>>>Smart man....
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>>>Drunk driving accidents are such horribly preventable tragedies
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>>>Over the weekend someone ran a stop sign and gave us a scare - we had Katy in the back seat. I know the child protection seats are strong but I really don't want to have to find out if they are indeed strong enough.
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>>>And without getting too far off topic, then you have pieces of garbage like Elliot Rodger who decide to play J.J.E. (judge, jury, executioner) with innocent lives.
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>>Simply because 'no girl would sleep with him' and it was all the girls' faults.
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>>Maybe, if we're lucky, this might continue the discussion on the objectification of women by some men and get MEN to start calling other men on these behaviors.
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>Maybe if we're much luckier this might continue the discussion about unrecognized/untreated mental illness, with or without access to weapons. Two thirds of the fatalities in this incident were male.

This guy was clearly unbalanced (since no balanced person would do this), but the folks who know about these things are saying he didn't shows signs of psychosis.

Tamar