Philip B. Linke is a libertarian who has been driving drunk for 25 years. He clearly shows that it is possible to drink and drive successfully and he calls it “responsible drinking.” (Lerner‚ 1) He believes that the measures of activists groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) “severely encroach upon the rights and liberty of people.” Drunk driving is one of the most controversial offenses‚ one where drunk individuals knowingly put themselves behind a wheel that can wreak havoc. Americans
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Argumentative Essay Imagine that you are driving home from a liquor store‚ you look at the bottle you bought‚ and it says you’re one of the 28. You take a drink of it and then immediately swerve and hit a car. It sound like the plot to a movie right? But sadly no‚ the reality is that every 51 minutes‚ a person dies due to drunk driving. That’s about 28 people who die everyday because of this issue. And since drunk driving is a growing issue‚ that number is just going to go up. On their own‚ alchohol
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The day I crashed my car… okay I didn’t actually crash it. But I don’t think that I have ever been so petrified seeing a powder blue prius about to rear-end me. Little me‚ little 4”11’‚ 112 pounds Katie Long was about to start driving. I get lost at the mall‚ the mall. So as you can assume‚ my parents are shaking in their boots. Having an older brother I’ve been through the ‘learning how to drive’ situation. You could say I’m immune to it‚ or so I thought. Here I am‚ going into my sophomore
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Whether you have been in a car with a drunk driver or you have been the drunk driver. Whether you injured someone because of drink driving. Whether someone lost their life because of your drink driving. Whether you were injured because of a drunk driver‚ or you know someone who lost their life because of a drunk driver‚ I imagine the feeling to be pretty horrific. My grandfather was killed in a car accident that had nothing to do with drink driving. What if you lost someone because of something so
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Theories Help Explain Drunk Driving Taylor Forté February 5‚ 2014 HDFS 2400 University of Missouri Fall 2013 ID: 333795 and Keycode: 2476 Theories Help Explain Drunk Driving Driving while intoxicated persists to be a major problem amongst teenage drivers. Although there are many precautions taken in order to prevent this type of activity‚ whether by the school‚ media or parents’‚ teens proceed to place themselves into these very high risk situations. These persistent
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Effects Of Drunk Driving and Alcohol Drunk driving affects many lives in the United States of America. Many people lose their cars‚ lives‚ families‚ homes‚ and money over their senseless act to abuse the right to drink. Driving drunk is a huge decision that people make and has serious consequences if caught. In Michigan the legal limit for drunk driving is a blood alcohol concentration level of 0.08. Not all people follow the law so they have to deal with consequences which consist of cash payments
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Drunk Driving Penalty Every day 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes on average and 20% of Child Passenger Deaths are Due to Drunk Driving Crashes. Drunk driving is the 15th leading cause of death in the united states today 19 percent of those deaths belong to children between the ages 0 to 14. The drinking while intoxicated penalty should be increased because tons of deaths have been caused by DUI‚ many drunk drivers are repeat offenders‚ and with technology in the 21st century
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down at stay-at-home moms rather than working mothers. This happens to many women‚ making it more difficult for them to choose between their children or work. For the first time in twenty-five years‚ the percentage of mothers returning to the workforce has fallen from fifty-nine percent in 1998 to fifty-five percent in 2000 (Adrienne Fox‚ Jan. 2002). This shows that women have more of a lifestyle choice rather than an economic choice. For mothers‚ it is a hard decision to make‚ but staying at
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Considering I was a state legislature‚ I would be very passionate about the drunk driving laws within our state. You see I see now real difference in murder‚ lets say aiming a weapon at someone an shooting them and fatally killing them vs. drinking a fifth of whiskey purposely choosing to get behind the wheel of a car and killing an innocent person. Where the difference comes into play in my opinion many people have drove a motor vehicle while drinking and never shot anyone‚ therefore less likely
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states in terms of driving under the influence. Fortunately‚ Texas did not rank in the top ten‚ but individuals shouldn’t get too excited. The state came in 14th in the nation in terms of the prevalence of drunk driving. The study took into account factors such as the number of DUI arrests‚ the quantity of DUI laws‚ the number of penalties associated with a conviction for DUI and the cost per fatality‚ along with others. Individuals who are charged with and convicted of driving under the influence
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