My opinion is that anyone repeatedly driving DUI has an illness, and that illness is called alcoholism, ... Now, you've got someone with a disease, and you take away their license, and you have someone with an alcohol addiction with no license getting behind the wheel of a car. That's an additional crime, so you'll have someone going to jail. Now you've broken up the family and taken away the breadwinner.
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