Letter: More access to alcohol is bad

To the Editor:

Selling alcohol all night and on Christmas and Memorial Day may be doomed like making it illegal for 14- and 15-year-olds to text while driving. More access to alcohol will always cause more problems — worse than tobacco.

Statistics have shown that texting while driving is twice as deadly as alcohol used before driving. Such use can be illegal at any age, so why would texting not be the same? The age of the one texting may not be any more significant than the age of those killed in the other vehicle — maybe head-on.

Perhaps those texting should be put in jail, as are those with alcohol use, where putting them with real felons has not been much more successful than it was during Prohibition.

Alcohol and such driving are not supported but fairness is. Teenagers may be dangerous, but so is anyone texting or drinking while driving. Neither of these has any favor with me.

It is human nature to be slow to give up the old or take up the new, but we have leaders who will. Just balance the budget.

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