by Richard Berman

About the author: Richard Berman is general counsel of the American Beverage Institute, an association of restaurant operators that serve alcohol.

Say you and your neighbors are fed up with a few speeders who continue to race through your neighborhood. While most drivers obey the posted 25 mph speed limit, a couple of reckless fools consistently drive 50 mph or more, especially on weekend nights. Two solutions are proposed at the next neighborhood meeting: Either demand better police enforcement of the posted limit or drop the limit from 25 mph to 20 mph. Which would you choose"

A Misguided Approach

That is the essence of the traffic-safety debate now being played out in Congress about the drunk-driving problem. In an effort to reduce drunk-driving deaths, two Democrats, Rep. Nita Lowey of New York...