Case Study on MADD Debra Pitts August 5, 2014 BSHS355 Lisa Tobler MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers), has been around for more than three decades. It began with a group of mother’s who had experienced the ultimate tragedy, the loss of a child at the hands of a drunk driver and grew into a national crusade against drunk driving. It has changed and created laws in every state and developed many policies along the way. Candy Lightner founded MADD in her living room on May 7, 1980, four days after her daughter had been killed by a drunk driver and one day after burying her. The crime was committed by a repeat offender who had previously been charged with DUI several times before this incident.
However, “recent research on the prevalence of defensive gun use has prompted growing concern that government efforts to regulate gun ownership and use may be counterproductive” (Ludwig, 2000, p. 363). Gun violence is a big problem in the United States and should be reduced. However, despite the claims of gun control activists, I argue that by banning all firearms as a means gun control does not reduce crime; it leaves law abiding citizens increasingly vulnerable to violent crime. It is late afternoon one day, and you're in heavy rush hour traffic going home. You double checked to make a lane change for your upcoming exit when all of a sudden another driver in a Ford Mustang speeds
Lately, this topic has become a big deal. There are great things that come out of the drinking age of twenty-one, but gratifying things would also come out of lowering it. By keeping the minimum drinking age at twenty-one, it would save countless lives. This reason alone should be enough to persuade one’s mind to want to keep it at twenty-one. Pros and Cons of Lowering the Drinking Age In today’s society, many young adults turn to alcohol to self-treat depression, stress, and other psychological illnesses.
So if a 18 year old can decide who the potential leader of our country should be and purchase lottery and tobacco products and take a bullet for their country, they should have every right to purchase and drink alcohol. I have often heard that an 18 year old compared to a 21 year old has less tolerance for alcohol, while this might be true, but tolerance does not come with age, tolerance comes with the realization of responsibility and there are way more people responsible at 15 than some are at 50. A person under the age of 21 sees alcohol as “the forbidden fruit”. This curiosity leads to more people under the legal age drinking anyway, they get the alcohol from someone they know who is of the legal age to purchase and when they do have the opportunity to consume alcohol they get overly drunk
THAT WE SHOULD RAISE THE LEGAL DRINKING AGE 21 Raising the legal drinking age to 21 has been an issue commonly discussed in the past years. While there are multiple arguments on both sides of the issue the legal drinking age should be raised to 21, in order to benefit the community in Australia and those most important to us. It will help complete the development of brains in adolescents and adults. It will make Australian roads safer by taking alcohol infused adolescents aged between 16 and 21 off the roads. Schoolies is yet another reason to lift the legal drinking age to 21, not only does it put 18 year olds is danger it also puts the community around them in danger.
Instead of trying to prevent every American under the age 21 from consuming any alcohol, there needs to be more government programs to educate younger people on the problems that alcohol can have, if inappropriately consumed. If the drinking age is lowered and mandatory classes on alcohol consumption are made, Americans would start making smarter decisions about alcohol in general. On the other hand, a lot of people say that if the drinking age were lowered to 18 people would abuse it. Americans aren't used to the idea of drinking casually. Drinking in the US has become an abusive activity that some people cannot control.
Leaving the drinking age at twenty-one will not necessarily stop underage drinking, but will definitely continue to disable many underage drinkers from drinking more. Finally, if teenagers being more prone to being seriously hurt, dropping out and/or going to jail, or even just hurting his/her athletic or academic potential is a good thing, then do not be one for lowering the drinking age to twenty
Bronson Guimond Guimond 1 English Composition (HC111) Dana Anderson 20 September 2011 Legal Drinking Age in america There are many reasons why the government has passed laws on the legal drinking age in America. I believe that if a human being of any age thinks they are capable of consuming alcohol, then they should be able to do so. Alcohol is very dangerous if it isn’t used responsibly. I understand that because of many teen deaths due to alcohol that the government changed the drinking age to 21; however this is not going to stop teen drinking. I would discuss this topic with an audience consisting of teens, parents, and government representatives.
I feel that sometimes when something becomes illegal, it almost turns to be something more coveted and may raise the demand of said illegal item. If we issue a sort of buy-back plan to where it is offered that one can turn in a assault weapon, or any weapon for that matter, we can potentially reduce crimes rates more than a ban may ever be able to do. In the 1997 Australian buy-back program, it led to a significant drop of firearm suicide rates of almost 80%. I feel that a buy-back plan a more effective alternative to the ban, and with a little incentive to hand in assault weapons, the crime rates could potentially drop, thus achieving the goal of the Federal Assault Weapons
Young people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of heavy drinking. The harms include an increased risk of traffic accidents, injuries from violence, and some studies suggest suicide (Allsop, 2010). I would seek all this information, and once finish, and once all required information have been studied and research, I would address the debate over why to raise the age limit to 21 by artlessly pointing to the evidence at hand, and at the same time, encourage and informed society about effective approaches to address the concern about alcohol related harm against young people in the