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New Gun Control Policy Is Needed
Number of Words: 1596 / Number of Pages: 6
... comes with applicant passing all background checks. A few
states even require that all persons possessing guns must have a license to
do so, even in their homes. Some states don't ban guns from addicts. This
is a problem. Gun concelation isn't the same in each state. Also it is
commonly unlawful to fire a gun within city limits or in other congested
urban areas. These are some of the common laws that most states have.
Guns are a form of power. Many individuals, ‘including criminals'
feel powerful when carrying a gun. Half of the households in the United
States possess a gun. Criminals use guns for s ...
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Heroin Abuse
Number of Words: 768 / Number of Pages: 3
... more hopeful future?
There is great fear reverberating through the community; fear of stepping into a more open and frightening, yet decidedly more promising way of tackling the issue. Reform does not mean, as opposers argue, condoning the use of drugs. It means accepting that drugs are part, admittedly an unfortunate part, of our society which will not simply ‘go away’.
The refreshingly new ideas of controlled heroin trials, legal injecting rooms and greater availability of clean needles should be given consideration.
Lightening of the law would bring drug use out of the shadows it has long inhabit ...
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Decriminalizing Prostitution
Number of Words: 663 / Number of Pages: 3
... corruption,” (“Interpool” by Fenton Bresler, page 1).
A person engaging in organized crime has the sole purpose of generating
profits from his/her victims. His crime is consciously and deliberately
thought out in order to make earnings as quickly as possible. The United
States Officials believe that the easiest form of organized crime is
prostitution due to the number of men/woman willing to be customers to
prostitutes.
Violence is one of the major problems for women and prostitutes.
Sixty percent of abuse to prostitutes is caused by clients, twenty percent
by the police and another twenty percen ...
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Lysergic Acid Diethlamide (LSD)
Number of Words: 416 / Number of Pages: 2
... depending on the
dosage. If taken in large enough amounts, one can die of an overdose of LSD.
Psychologically, LSD has a tremendous effect on a person. LSD is an
unpredictable drug in which the effects are different each time it is ingested.
A person under the influence of LSD ifs flooded with visual experience, as much
when the eyes are closed as when open. Light is greatly intensified; colors are
vivid and seem to glow; images are numerous and persistent, yielding a wide
range of illusions and hallucinations; details are sharp; perception of spaced
is enhanced; music may evoke visual expressio ...
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Serial Killers
Number of Words: 4242 / Number of Pages: 16
... do? Serial killers usually have reasons for
killing, they just don't go out and kill anyone (the majority). A serial killer
will plan out where, when, why, and how before they actually kill. Ted Bundy
used to lure his victims with a phony cast on his leg. Others lured with the
promise of sex or porno movies. When they kill they usually have their own
style. The Son of Sam used a .44 Cal, Dahmer killed various ways and then
hacked his victims into several pieces, dumping the bodies into vats of acid,
and Gacy molested little boys before strangling them and dumping them into the
crawl space u ...
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Drugs: Hurt Players And Sports
Number of Words: 1035 / Number of Pages: 4
... seizure in February while in surgery to repair a
broken bone. The seizure resulted from the abuse of the painkiller (Howard 1).
Favre states, “I went to Topeka, because the pills had gotten the best of me”
( qtd. in Plummer 129). Favre's daughter Brittany asked his wife Deanna, “Is
he going to die?” (qtd. in Plummer 129). He not only scared himself but his
family as well. Favre not has to submit up to ten urine tests a month. His
losses were internal as well. “It is kind of embarrassing,” says Favre; “I
will do whatever it takes” (qtd. in Plummer 133). He spent several weeks in
rehabi ...
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Opinion On The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 1001 / Number of Pages: 4
... kidnap the kidnapper's children; but if
the death penalty were permitted, we would " kill the killer". So why, as
educated citizens, would we want to lower ourselves to this level? Do we feel
that we need to show the power of the police force by killing the killers? The
death penalty is extremely barbaric and is often botched in order to let the
accused suffer for several minutes. Society by now must realize that two wrongs
certainly do not make a right. You do not show society anything, by killing the
killers, except your ignorance for human life and well being.
Some thought has been that i ...
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“To Legalize Or Not To Legalize”
Number of Words: 1850 / Number of Pages: 7
... Drug Rights Policy - pages 382-383
There have been many assumptions throughout the years on what effects drugs are causing on society. In the 1960’s, the psychedelic drug movement said that drugs were used as a means of mind expansion, liberation, and ecstasy. Then in the 1980’s drugs were seen as a source of anguish, escapism, and denial of self. Neither of these assumptions are true though. Drug use varies between each individual and most of the time it all starts off with the satisfaction of enjoying the drug in the first place. Many experts argue since drugs are mainly used for enjoyment why ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 1244 / Number of Pages: 5
... result in greater public acceptance of marijuana.
That would mean that there would be an increase in the amount of people
who would be caught and punished for possessing marijuana. ( Sommer, 67 ).
The annual survey of freshman, which has been sponsored by
American Counsel on Education since 1966, includes an item relating to the
legislation of marijuana. Austin, Green, and Korn ( 1987 ) indicated that
results over a twenty year period show distinctly conservative trends. (
Sommer, 67 ).
In 1968, for example, fewer than one in five students supported
legislation. The base of support increased co ...
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Violent Crimes Involving Guns
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... they were not; in cities with fewer firearms, armed robbers simply used other weapons.(5)The best 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) ...
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