His self-absorbed drunk driving nearly killed someone, and yet those charges will lead to almost no punishment at all.

Also, not that not driving is punishment, but this lad is yet another example of someone who should never be allowed behind the wheel again, both for his own good and that of the public at large. 

Both our criminal justice system and our DMV are far too soft on this issue. The most likely cause of unnatural death of young people in America is scofflaw driving, and yet we all but ignore it. An American has a 50% chance of serious injury over the course of a lifetime from scofflaw driving, and yet we almost never enforce our traffic laws or pull licenses. We also need to greatly increase the required level of knowledge and training of our motorists, but we have spent the last thirty years lowering both.