February 8, 2013Dear Sir,The recent mass shootings in the US have brought out the standard cries for gun control from most sane people and the gun lobby’s howls at how their constitutional rights are being attacked. Of course this peculiarly American madness is very powerful and it’s fairly evident that nothing will change in the near future.But it is heartening to note how the sentiment in the US and Canada has changed when it comes to drunk driving. Gone are the days when people joke at work about how they don’t know how they made it home last night. It is no longer socially acceptable to hold this view. And this all came about due to the efforts of one woman who lost a child to a drunk driver, a woman who started Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the campaign just took over. Now every police vehicle in the US and Canada carries a breathalyser and you get incarcerated on the spot if you are over the limit.Yet in Bermuda, getting full hot and then weaving your way home on your bike or in your car is still considered somewhat humorous.When a group of mothers get fed up enough with this slaughter and relentlessly harangue the Government and the police, then we will see action. If every driver leaving town after midnight was pulled over and breathalysed, drunk driving would be markedly reduced. There are only a few roads, after all. If Police were stationed outside every big club and checked every driver, habits would change overnight. And the death rate would be radically reduced.War on drugs? I think a War on Drink Driving might be a wise investment of our money.LIVING-IN-PARADISESmith’s