You are trying to make this issue too black and white. It's not like that at all. Even if he knows drunk driving is illegal, even if he was trying to start his car while drunk meaning he was intending to drive does not mean he was in a conscious state of mind. "He should know better" doesn't mean a damn thing in that situation. It doesn't mean he's innocent, it doesn't mean he didn't make a bad decision, it doesn't mean any sort of thing like that. It means the man has a serious f***ing problem that needs help, a problem that puts himself and others at risk. Beneath the alcohol problem could be another problem, a possible mental issue or something. Let's not make this guy out to be a real piece of s***.
And how it was said about blaming the system earlier(by someone else), you seriously think the system shouldn't get any blame for s*** like this happening on a consistent basis? Really? The same system who knows damn well what alcohol does to people, how addictive it is, the s*** it causes, yet allows it to be legal? The same system who just suspends these people's licenses for a month or 2 and give them a few months probation? Screw that. Cabrera got a D.U.I before and admitted to being an alcoholic. Anyone with a D.U.I and admits to being an alcoholic or is known as one should have their license revoked for a year or 2, have to submit to random drug testing for the same amount of time, attend rehab, and have those machines installed in their car that makes them have to pass a Breathalyzer before the car will even start. All this on a first offense. Get caught again and spend jail time and never drive again. Hell, in some states if you're caught driving with even just a marijuana pipe with resin in it or a roach (even if you are sober) you have to go to court, get your license suspended, get probation, and are forced to attend drug classes where you must stand infront of everyone and declare yourself a drug addict, yet booze is way more dangerous than that and half the time those people don't even get anything done to them.