12 killed in Navy Yard (DC) shooting

[russ_watters]

MADD made a difference by changing societal attitudes about DWI.

Different issue, but I don't suppose that graphic is adjusted for the fact that overall car accident deaths have dropped precipitously in that time due to cars being safer, does it...?

 

[jim hardy]

Different issue, but I don't suppose that graphic is adjusted for the fact that overall car accident deaths have dropped precipitously in that time due to cars being safer, does it...?

Not intending to sidetrack the thread,
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/r...tions/by_the_numbers/drunk_driving/index.html

However, drunk driving awareness and enforcement efforts such as Zero Tolerance Laws may be having a positive impact. The percentage of alcohol-related fatalities decreased from 50.6 percent in 1990 to 42 percent in 2009.

but their graphic goes back only to 2000; the percentage looks to be a relatively constant ~40% since then

MADD really got going mid 90's.
http://www.madd.org/about-us/history/madd-milestones.pdf


My point about entertainment industry being - much behavior is imitation of hero archetypes. Watch your old movies with an eye toward what behaviors kids are apt to imitate. The emotionally broken, smoldering ones in particular.

As an early boomer I was titillated by James Bond . That promiscuous lush had every young man's dream life. Shoulda stuck with Davy Crockett.