people reacting

On Halloween afternoon a tragedy took place, a little girl was killed by a two teenage boys who did something stupid. One of the boys took a car out without having a license and not knowing how to drive a standard shift car, to avoid colliding with the car belonging to the other boy he swerved and hit a fence crushing the small girl behind the fence. And now people are calling for the government to raise the driving age to twenty one years old. As horrible as this loss was I don't believe we should paint all young drivers with the same brush. If this accident had been caused by a twenty five years old would people be as upset as this? Here in this province of ours drunk drivers go on driving even after multiple convictions and having their licenses suspended. A few years ago, a man leaving a country club impaired by alcohol hit another little girl riding her bike home from a friends house, he then left the young girl on the side of the road. After his trial he was sentenced to six months of prison and who knows how long on probation. But now people are calling for these boys heads, and they want to stop all the rest of the young people who never get into trouble on the road from driving. As horrible as this accident was, and as much as we may need to look at what these boys did and punish them accordingly. But punishing all young people is not the answer. We do however need to look a how we give out licenses to new drivers. Maybe we should have a graduated system of licensing or at the very least review the standards we use in our driving school and testing facilities.