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Senator Nozzolio's points on drunk driving are well taken; we do have repeat offenders on the road, and that has to stop.

I want to advocate a penalty on the other end: In the case of drunk driving in which the driver is too young to drink legally, he or she automatically loses his or her license to drive until the age of 21. No appeal, no leniency.

Supposedly, this state raised the legal drinking age for a reason. That's a total mockery when a 19-year-old is convicted of drunk driving and nothing is said or done about the fact that he or she wasn't legally been drinking in the first place.

If we did a better job of teaching about consequences in such a teachable moment, we might well have fewer repeat offenders down the road, so to speak.

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