All of those are just as dangerous as drunk driving and should be treated comparably. Of course that brings us to the fact that Oregon doesn't take drunk driving seriously, which partly explains why we have double the national average of alcohol-related deaths.

Driving a motor vehicle isn't a game. It's a serious activity that can end lives if done poorly. We need to raise our game so that Americans don't have a fifty percent probability of being maimed by a motorist over the course of a lifetime. Unfortunately, we're going the other way in Oregon with highway deaths up by over a third over the past two years.

Are we stupid, or do we just not care about human life any more?

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