Raiders WR Henry Ruggs

[George Cantstandya]

(06-21-2022, 04:45 PM)grampahol Wrote: In no way would I defend Ruggs for this, but..as someone who used to drive drunk and has several DUIs myself in my past before quitting drinking entirely . Never once have I woken up and decided to drive drunk with intentions of crashing and killing anyone. That's not how things work. Nobody works their asses off in college to earn millions in the NFL only to wake up one day saying, "You know..This is too nice of a gig. I think I'll just trash the rest of my entire life and go kill someone in a fiery car crash whilst drunk.." It's very unfortunate and Ruggs will pay dearly for it, but no amount of public shaming will ever be worse than what Ruggs will put himself through the rest of his life..

I know many people at one time or another have had one too many and got behind the wheel.  Yes I'm sure he didn't say, "Hey I'm going to trash my multi million dollar career by driving drunk."   But he also was going 156 MPH on a city street.  It wasn't just negligence driving a bit drunk.  It was total disregard for others that ended up in the gruesome death of an innocent person.   Of course driving drunk by itself is certainly a disregard for others but add in driving that fast on a city street, or any public road, and the disregard for others is magnified.

And if guilty he should be very much publicly shamed and have to deal with what he did the rest of his life because there is now an innocent person that doesn't even have a life or future.  If found guilty what he will put himself through personally for the rest of his life, time will tell.  If he serves his punishment and does something to better himself and give back to the community then I'll believe it. Unfortunately there have been many cases where rich people have killed others driving drunk, got a slap on the wrist and were able to move on with their lives and even continue lucrative careers.  But the people they killed are gone and their families and loved ones certainly have to suffer that loss the rest of their lives.