Why The Legal Driving Age Should Be Raised
.... just receiving his or her license and thinking that they can do anything. What they don't realize is what danger they are putting themselves, as well as others into.
As a group, teenage drivers have high crash rates per mile driven. What isn't so widely known is that the problem is worst among 16-year-olds, the age when most beginners get licenses.
Crashes involving 16-year-old drivers aren't like those involving older drivers. They even differ from crashes involving drivers only a year or two older. For one thing, 16-year-olds get into trouble trying to handle unusual driving situations, even small emerg .....
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The Drug War In America
.... labor market so in a effort to remove these worker from the work force this ordnance was passed. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was another law that was inacted for the same proposes. The first federal drug control law passed was the District of Columbia Pharmacy Act. This act regulated narcotics. Cocaine based product’s were being sold in many forms, such as soft drinks, cough medicine, and the coca crop was cultivated in many stated. The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 which was written as a tax law and appeared to be a means of gathering information, “requiring everyone in the drug trade to purchase a license and keep pre .....
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The Drinking Age Should Be Lowered To Eighteen
.... think that sixteen is too young to be given power over a weapon as deadly as an automobile. However, since the legal driving age is sixteen, perhaps lawmakers should enact training requirements that are stricter for new drivers. For example, they could require more driving time with a certified instructor, or give them a probationary license for the first six months of their licensure.
Even though there have been many cases of irresponsible drinking by those under the age of twenty-one, I believe they can be taught to drink responsibly. Parental figures can teach young adults how to be responsible drinkers and about .....
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How Decriminalisation Could Solve The Drugs Problem
.... if smoked (and, used in this way, it can also give you cancer), yet few people have cause to think of this when they sprinkle it into their cakes and biscuits. Chocolate contains an addictive chemical called PEA, which stimulates our brains in the same way that Ecstasy does. Overdosing on chocolate can contribute to heart disease, the single biggest killer in this country today, but far from fearing the addictive properties of the humble Dairy Milk, we laugh and joke about them on Christmas cards and coffee cups. And coffee itself contains a strong stimulant, caffeine, which is also found in tea and Coca-Cola. Even Scotland’s “o .....
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Our Court System Is Inefficient
.... clerk and recorder seem to know each other very well. They joked openly, even while the court was in session, the defence lawyer asked if he could persuade the judge into a lighter sentence after the judge had already made a decision in a very easy and friendly tone of voice, something seemly unprofessional that caused chuckles throughout the courtroom. Where in the Ontario Supreme Court the atmosphere was much more serious, professional, strict and at times high in tension.
Our current bail system, in either monetary terms or personal recognizance, seemed pretty successful in Provincial Court, though not observed in .....
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Rape
.... F.B.I. says that several studies show that fewer than one in a hundred acquaintce rapes are reported to the police. "When one in four women will be raped in her lifetime, less than ten percent will report the assualt, and less than five percent of the rapist will go to jail." (Gibbs, 207) In this country a women was raped every six minutes, ten women every hour. In a twelve month period 76 per 1000 college women experienced one or more attempted or completed rapes. Rape is accounted for six percent of the total violent crime volume. Acuiantance rape and date rape are against the law.
Most people have a lot of incorrect ideas .....
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Gun Control
.... that by making it difficult for guns to be bought and registered for the American public there is a threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere.
However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun-related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition gun .....
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Against Gun Control
.... available evidence, based on at least eight national surveys of the general adult population, indicates that guns are used about as often for defensive as for criminal purposes.6 The experience of other nations also provides little support for the notion that guns cause crime.(7) Switzerland has one of the lowest murder rates in the world, and it requires all able-bodied males between the ages of 20 and 50 to have a military-issued automatic weapon, ammunition and other equipment in their dwellings. (8) Israel, which has an extremely low crime rate but is vulnerable to enemies including terrorists, depends on the defensive value .....
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