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The Drug War In America
Number of Words: 1926 / Number of Pages: 8
... who had come to America to build the railroads, were a glut on the 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 m ...
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The Drinking Age: An 18-Year-Olds Right
Number of Words: 1958 / Number of Pages: 8
... teenagers after the MLDA was lowered.(Toomey 1) It can, however,
easily be argued that since these studies came out right after the drinking
ages had been lowered, they would naturally show that there was an increase
in death among teenagers. Anytime you change something dramatically it
takes a while for things to settle into a routine. If all of a sudden,
for instance, you allow 18-year-olds to drink alcohol when before they
couldn't, it's going to take a while before that becomes the norm, and
therefore less exciting and alluring. These studies would have been far
more accurate if ...
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Capital Punishment And The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 1352 / Number of Pages: 5
... 21:12). The bible also suggests stoning a woman if she unmarried sex and had "wrought folly on Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house" (Deuteronomy 22:21)
England recognized seven major crimes that called for execution by the end of the 15th century. These crimes were: murder, theft (by deceitfully taking someone goods), burglary, rape, and arson. As time went by more and more crimes were believed to deserve the death penalty and by 1800 more than 200 crimes were recognized as punishable by death. (Bedau2)
It was not long before capital punishment met opposition. The Quakers made first ...
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The Brady Law
Number of Words: 429 / Number of Pages: 2
... time away from
other law-enforcement duties. This is a valid argument in less densely
populated areas of the country where doing checks would bring manpower to a
below minimum level. This argument is not valid for large cities, however,
because it is needed more there than anywhere else in the country. In
large cities there are many more police officers and they can afford to put
a few on duty doing these checks. In large cities you can easily blend in
because of its size. Places like Montana and Arizona don't necessarily
need to run checks on every person, but ones they have not seen befor ...
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Capital Punishment: For
Number of Words: 734 / Number of Pages: 3
... me.
But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to
1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions.
Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a
personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not tolerate. How far they
will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by
friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught
some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit as
to what they can do, until they have learned it t ...
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The Prohibition
Number of Words: 1619 / Number of Pages: 6
... up guidelines for enforcement (Bowen, 154). Prohibition was meant to reduce the consumption of alcohol, seen by some as the devil’s advocate, and thereby reduce crime, poverty, death rates, and improve the economy and the quality of life. “National prohibition of alcohol -- the ‘noble experiment’ -- was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America” (Thorton, 1). This, however, was undoubtedly to no avail. amendment of the 1920s was ineffective because it was unenforceable, it caus ...
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Capital Punishment Deters Murder, And Is Just Retribution
Number of Words: 1316 / Number of Pages: 5
... does not matter whether it will deter the
crime rate. Supporters of the death penalty are in favour of making examples
out of offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to deter the crime
rate, but the crime rate is irrelevant.
According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight
murders are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A. He
goes on to say, "If one execution of a guilty capital murderer deters the murder
of one innocent life, the execution is justified." To most supporters of the
death penalty, like Ehrlich, if even 1 life is saved, ...
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Gun Control Isn't About Guns Its About Control
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... us what followed. Taking away peoples abilities to defend themselves is the easiest way to subjugate, enslave or eradicate them.
Many times an over zealous government takes actions that cannot be justified. A good example of this is the Ruby Ridge Incident, where a mans wife and son were killed over a minor firearm offense.
Some States have enacted their own laws. Florida has aloud its citizens to carry a concealed weapon. Since this law was enacted the murder rate has dropped by 29%. Over the same period of time the nationwide murder rate increased by 11%. This clearly shows that guns in the han ...
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No Speed Limit In Virginia
Number of Words: 618 / Number of Pages: 3
... speed limit should be lifted from all interstate and state highways. The fact is the speed limit, which is set at 55 miles per hour around the area, causes many problems and traffic. The traffic in the Washington, DC metropolitan area is one of the worst in the United States. Especially on highway 66 where there is always a lot of traffic because people are worried about going the right speed due to all the highway patrol on the road. So, taking this into consideration, by lifting the state speed limit all together, the majority of drivers will still drive at 55 or 65 (depending on location) mile ...
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The Death Penalty: For The Common Good
Number of Words: 439 / Number of Pages: 2
... to enforce the speeding laws? No. They also say that we should
value all human life. Even the most despicable. It is because we value
human life so much that we put such a terrible consequence for taking it.
One argument states that the death penalty does not deter people
from murdering. To abolish capital punishment on this basis would be way
off base. You would also have to get rid of prisons because they do not
keep people from committing crimes also. Texas A&M University collected
data and the results are horrifying. In 1960 there were 56 executions and
9,140 murders. In 1964 ...
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