Drunk Driving

For a speech class I am suppose to pick a topic and to persuade people not to do something, and I picked drunk driving. When I found out the numbers of people who die because of drunk driving I was amazed and I was amazed to find out that 48 children of the years 14 and younger get killed just because they were walking or because they were riding a bike scares me very much. Sometimes I think of how stupid can you be to get behind the wheel when you are drunk and you think you can drive when you can not even see the person in front of you correctly. I want people to know that if you kill someone because you were drunk does not make it less bad then you killing them yourself and the reason being is because in a way you killed them because you are the one who decide to get behind the wheel drunk. When I had to take my five hour class for driving test there was an argument between two people which on side of the party said that the person who killed another one by accident because they were drunk should not get harsh punishment. The other party said that they should get a harsh punishment because they made the deadly decision to get behind a wheel and drive, yea they did not want to kill anyone but they knew that there was a possibility. God forbid there is always a possibility you could kill someone by accident when you are sober let alone drunk. Every 60 minutes there is a teenager dying because of drunk driving, that is a scary fact. I personally do no drink but teenagers who go to parties and know they are going to drink and get drunk they should have other means of transportation then them driving they should make that decision. Make a smart decision and do not drink and drive because you may never know that you could take your live as well as another innocent live, and that would be a worse burdin for you when you know you have killed or hurt someone else because you were being irresponsible. ( http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm )