So getting drunk or stoned and running a bus load of pregnant nuns of a cliff is ok due to the fact the person didn't know what they where doing? I for one like to hold people accountable for their actions.
Where did I say it was OK? In fact, I specifically called for convictions in circumstances where a person is intoxicated and causes harm to persons and/or property. Please stop putting words in my mouth.
If you drive or shoot a weapon while high that is the persons choice, if someone dies due to their chioce of doing something a sane person knows is wrong to me means they need to stop using O2 and save it for people that can use it.
What about texting, doing makeup, reading the newspaper, etc. while driving that results in someone being killed? What about a 16 year old, young, dumb and full of courage, speeding around blind curve and killing someone? Those are all acts we all know are irresponsible and potentially dangerous, but they do not automatically result in a person's death - in fact, more often than not, no one is even hurt. Therefore, it does not rise to the standard of premeditated murder.
Taking a drug and killing someone due to the actions while high should be considered premeditated.
If the killing was premeditated, sure. If it was the result of an accident, that's life, and also can happen with people who are stone-cold sober. If it was the result of a clearly-preventable accident, with no premeditation or ill intent, that is negligent homicide or manslaughter. Society correctly recognizes that there is a significant difference in the evil quotient of someone who kills another with malice aforethought and one who kills another unintentionally.
I for one would like to live in a sociaty where people are held resposiable for what they do both good and bad.
Ummm...ok. I agree. Of course, you did advocate summary execution for anyone using a firearm while intoxicated; to me, that's not "holding people accountable." That's unacceptably harsh vigilantism to serve your own bitterness (understandable if you have suffered a loss), rather than justice.
We have a drunk that has 15 DUI's in town, drives without a liecense, and smiles about it. They keep letting him out, I guess until he kills a kid in a crosswalk then I guess it is just an accident...he didn't mean to kill the child.
If he kills any person while intoxicated, it is not as if he will go free. He will face a serious felony charge and do time. However, in a society says it reserves the death penalty for only the worst of the worst, yet often has a hard time sentencing intentional, sexually-motivated child killers to that punishment, it would be unreasonable to demand the death penalty for someone who has killed another unintentionally.
Also, how is it that you know that the drunk you mentioned drives without a license, but the police don't? Do you have psychic powers? If so, and if you believe so strongly in holding people responsible, I recommend you call the law on him.
Right.