When should drivers be banned for life from driving?

It takes a negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, life in prison sentence. That will stop them.

If you want to kill someone, use a car, not a gun. A car has become the most acceptable method of execution. Fewer people are charged with murder with a motor vehicle than with a gun. The results are the same, the methodology is different.

Usually they are banned from driving after 3 DUIs I thought....I am sure she will get another one and have to serve some jail time and learn a lesson.

On one hand, I agree, but the laws are already too strict. Groups like MADD have gotten the legal limit so low an average person can blow above it when they have one beer.

The original founder of MADD resigned when it became very apparent that the organization was going from being anti drunk driving to anti drinking in general.

So, yes, drunk drivers should have the book thrown at them, but the laws shouldn't be made any stricter. Your friend is going to screw up again, or she won't. If she does, the three strike rule means a minimum stay of 3-6 months in county jail and then 3-6 months, time in rehab and then house arrest on a tether that will monitor her sweat for booze and/or drug use. She has to pay to 'rent' the tether. Generally it's around 1400 dollars due at the end of the house arrest, if you don't pay it, you go back to jail. After that, it's a minimum 2-3 years before they can get any sort of license to operate a motor vehicle. If they're caught operating one without a license in this time, it starts the process above all over again. If they get caught under a DUI, it's a total sh*tstorm, legally.

Everyone can make a couple mistakes, especially when they are young. The three strike rule allows for this and allows to learn. Making the laws anymore strict then they are will hurt people who otherwise live perfect lives and make one or two mistakes. We're only human.

Drinking is not a bad thing. Prohibition doesn't work (as history taught us) and making laws any more strict is putting us even closer to that again.