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In reply to the discussion: Woman In Starbucks Drops Purse With Forgotten Gun, Shoots Friend In The Leg: St. Pete Police [View all]harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Just thinking about it for a few minutes here while making dinner though, it strikes me that drunk driving laws have become far more severe, just in the last 10 - 20 years. However, I don't think it's exactly a change in drunk driving laws that have curtailed incidences of it (if they have been - I assume they have, at least anecdotally I know they have), but general attitudes which brought about the change in the laws.
We have yet to see that in regards to US gun culture. The laws won't change until they have to change to have an impact on that tiny percentage that would still ignore them. I think drunk driving laws in a lot of places have gone from being effective to being an extension of puritanical influence that wants to curb all recreational drinking and drug use. As far as most people and the courts are concerned, concealed carry is a constitutional right - as I think one could argue drinking is. When "accidents" such as this and drunk driving "accidents" happen, it's not because people decided to ignore laws, but because they didn't have enough cultural influence to act differently. If we see the culture change, we'll see laws change with it in accord.