Educating our children on drunk driving, then turning around in America and giving these trained adults a double standard is confusing. We teach them at an early age through many sources that drunk driving kills. But there is no doubt that the alcohol revenue is great because it is big money.

To change a drunk-driving law, the legislators all have to look at two items: your family or that revenue. It is a constant balancing act and what is held hostage? Certainly not your privilege to drive and most certainly not the drunk driver because he is a commodity -- a useful tool to bring in more revenue. The one question is: Do we want to actually do something about this or not? Or do we leave our families on that Russian Roulette until that drunk driver takes their lives.

Tomorrow's future in Pennsylvania lies in the hands of your own children. But if that killing goes on in Pennsylvania then who is left?

Edwin I. Lindsey Jr.
resident of Susquehanna, Pa.