michaelr - You're welcome. Nice to see you took it so well, but I still say you deserved it & I don't regret a word I posted. Now would you mind explaining what point you think you made that I haven't already answered?

I drive. I drink. I have drunk heavily. I know my own capacity for drink. If I'm drinking regularly, I can down a bottle of wine comfortably & barely feel it. So does this make me safe to still drive? Just because *I* think I'm still safe to drive (which relative to a lot of idiots on the road, I would be, but in absolute terms, I absolutely *wouldn't* be!)? No, of course it bloody doesn't!

A heavy drinker is the last person in the world whose opinion I would trust as to whether they're safe to be put in charge of a lethal weapon. Unless they were saying they weren't. Yet that is exactly what your 'sliding scale' would apparently allow, which is the only 'point' you made. You cannot judge or measure 'drinking ability'. It's appallingly idiotic, even as a mere suggestion.

And there is absolutely no way that any sort of sliding scale could be made to work in law. One law for you, another law for me, a different for Willifred, for Liz, for Teribus, for... It's got about the same chance or working as a gnat has of surviving 5 minutes in an operational blast furnace. Utterly stupid. I'm stone cold sober this time, not roaring drunk like last time I posted. It's *still* the dumbest idea I've heard in quite some considerable time!

Are you sure you're not the Shrub in disguise? ;)