This act raised the drinking age to 21 for all 50 states and was huge step for lowering the damage caused by drunk driving. By the end of the year MADD had reached 330 chapters nationwide while helping pass over 129 laws against drunk driving. Not only did MADD make the most successful pushes for anti-drinking laws in last century but they remained true to why the organization was formed in the first place, to comfort victims of the crime. In Kentucky of 1988 the nation watched as a drunk driver took the lives of 41 children and 3 adults, while injuring 30 more. The driver had slammed head on with a bus returning from a church outing.
Tonight he would overcome his fear of talking to the public about something he really cares deeply about. This topic was surprisingly unselfish in the reasons he was bringing it up as an issue. Dan has a problem with the ‘Three Strike’ law in California, stating that if you have obtained three felony accounts, violent or nonviolent, you will be sentenced to life imprisonment. The three strikes law in California, instituted in 1993, had the original purpose of taking career criminals off the streets, making out communities and our and streets more safe. However the real impact of the law was filling prisons with non-violent offenders for decades at a time.
With the legalization of marijuana brought about in California, there would be a drastic reduction of crime in a broad range of areas. Firstly, with marijuana legalized, the state jailing system could make more room for actual criminals, under the new law, by removing almost 80,000 inmates who are currently being detained under marijuana charges and as many as 50,000 of them, at least, being charged only on misdemeanor suspicion. With this immense amount of extra room created in the jailing facilities, police work would be more greatly and justly rewarded when the criminals they capture actually have a place to serve out there sentence, rather than being released early with a slap on the wrist due to overcrowding. Without focusing on the unscientific myths of marijuana the herbal plant is, at most, a euphoric intoxicant, an herb that induces sleep, hunger, happiness, and or drowsiness, no effects that have ever been proven to cause violence or harmful acts to ones self or other, while alcohol and other inebriants are regularly sold in corner stores and markets across the country, causing pain, sickness, and death to those who partake without responsible regard, and even to some who do. Crime in California, in regard to marijuana, is often due to gang members robbing each other over turf to sell illegal marijuana, over marijuana fields being robbed by other gangs, groups, and common
Just directs to next stage. § C. After impeachment in the house, the senate holds a trial only if the senate convicts by a 2/3 vote is the person removed. o 2. IMPEACHMENT: if pres ngaged in criminal conduct/civil rights violations o 3. LIABILITY: President has absolute immunity against suits for damages for acts done by the president in the course of his official duties.
She is of the perception that high rates of injury and gun mortality are on the increase due to lenient gun control policies. She argues that the increased possession of firearms, especially illegal guns, has increased gun violence and organized criminal activities. According to (Peterson & Stebner, 2013) Kelly also argues that on average up to 32,000 people lose their lives while 69,000 people are injured in the whole of America due to guns. Gun mortality and injury not only reduce the country’s productivity and performance but also cost the U.S over $100 billion to especially law enforcement agencies in fighting
", Frank Zimring, Summer 1968 4. ” Expanded Homicide Table 8”, Federal Bureau of Inverstigation, Spring 2012 Thesis Paragraph: Gun control has been a hot topic in the United States for over a decade now, and it isn’t about to go away. 116,975,100 citizens of all walks of life who take part in exercising their second amendment right are falling victim to the negligence of .00002% of the population, leaving their right to bear arms to be questioned by the very government that granted its citizens this right centuries ago. Reasons that many pro-gun control activists vary, however, upon further examination of exactly who these people are and what kind of experience they have had with firearms, it becomes clear that a frightening portion of these people grew up without seeing any benefit whatsoever in their second amendment right. Instead, just like every other
This law suit, if ruling in favor of Officer Bean, would mean that they would have to keep him on long-term disability until such time that he is eligible for his retirement benefits from the police department. This means that the police department would have to pay out the long-term disability for another twelve years, which is when Officer Bean is eligible to receive his retirement package (Newtown Police Officer Faces Firing Over PTSD,
Therefore, since it is unlikely that all guns will disappear in the United States, legislation must be enacted to ban and cease the further manufacture of the types of firearms involved in more violent crime than all others; handguns and assault-weapons. Through the evolution of time, man
The additional expense includes legal costs for expanded trials and appeals and for housing inmates in single cells. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/24/local/la-me-death-penalty-california-20120424 California's death penalty law: It simply does not work -By Ron Briggs We believed the Briggs initiative — the death penalty measure we wrote in 1977 — would bring greater justice. We were wrong. In 1977, my dad, former state Sen. John Briggs, my brother-in-law and I got together to discuss California's death penalty. We agreed it was ineffective and decided a ballot initiative was needed to expand the number of murder categories eligible for capital punishment.
Gun Violence Essay I believe if the government started banning guns and other weapons it would not limit gun violence. Just trying to ban a weapon or guns, wouldn’t stop the person from trying to commit the crime he or she is wanting to commit. I believe the only way they could reduce it is if they actually go door to door to every house in the United States and take every gun that that person has, and that still wouldn’t be enough. People will eventually find out that that’s what the government is doing and most likely try to hide their weapons if they wanted to keep them that bad. That’s why I think it would only reduce gun violence, not make it go away completely.