Drunk Driving Laws In The United States

Considering I was a state legislature, I would be very passionate about the drunk driving laws within our state. You see I see now real difference in murder, lets say aiming a weapon at someone an shooting them and fatally killing them vs. drinking a fifth of whiskey purposely choosing to get behind the wheel of a car and killing an innocent person. Where the difference comes into play in my opinion many people have drove a motor vehicle while drinking and never shot anyone, therefore less likely to judge there own self in that fashion. The current vehicular homicide law ranges from a class B to D felony and ranges from three (3) to ten (10) years in jail. The aggravated vehicular homicide law is a class A felony and comes with host of factors that would have to be applicable ("LexisNexis® Custom Solution: Tennessee Code Research Tool," n.d.).
Innocent lives are being lost each and every day with little or no punishment; the rate that a DUI is repeated is