The first article to review is “Don’t waste police resources,” and it was written by Debra Leach. She is against not raising the Blood Alcohol Limi because she wants our officers to focus on actual criminals. What she means are the ones that are murdering people, stealing, and performing violent crimes. She believes the law enforcement in the United States needs to focus on criminals that are doing much more to warm people. “Such a law could set back safety efforts and give criminal records to millions of responsible adults.” Not quite sure what she means by setting back safety efforts, as this would be helping safety efforts going forward. Lowering it would keep the roadways safer for everyone using them, this would not be a step back.
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She was always trying to get the reader’s attention off driving drunk and on other things. Which is a good tacit to use when you write on a serious issue. The fact that she comes from the beer world, I believe selling beer is more important than the safety of others. Due to the devastating effects that result from drinking and driving, it is vital to consider looking for ways that may reduce or better eliminate incidents of drinking and driving. There is the need to have citizens educated on the effects and consequences of drinking and driving. This way, they understand that driving and drinking is and should not be an option as it can be dangerous and even fatal. To use your head and act like drinking and driving is a just a statistical risk is …show more content…
In this article, the author tries to convey that the United States Congress should lower the BAC to 0.8 from 0.10. She provides the reader with a graph that shows how deaths on the roadway have gone down since 1983. But lowering the BAC over the past few years really been the only reason deaths have gone down. Over the past few years’ cars have become safer and speed limits have dropped in highly populated areas. To say that deaths have dropped in traffic related accidents because of the stricter BAC laws is outrageous. There are many factors as to why traffic related deaths are down, and car safety is a big one. Later, in her article, she mentions how deaths how dropped nearly 13% in a year since the new law, and 7,000 lives are being saved each year. This is an appeal to vanity as she is trying to flatter the reader into thinking this law is working. As I mentioned above, there could be many reasons for way deaths are on the decline She tries to use appeal to pity, as she brings up an instance where a mother died after being struck by a drunk driving who had twice the legal amount of alcohol in his body. While explaining the incident she also brought up how the mother had three children also. She is really trying to get the reader to feel bad for the family of the mother. She wanted to make sure that everyone knew the driver had twice the amount of alcohol in his system because
She was always trying to get the reader’s attention off driving drunk and on other things. Which is a good tacit to use when you write on a serious issue. The fact that she comes from the beer world, I believe selling beer is more important than the safety of others. Due to the devastating effects that result from drinking and driving, it is vital to consider looking for ways that may reduce or better eliminate incidents of drinking and driving. There is the need to have citizens educated on the effects and consequences of drinking and driving. This way, they understand that driving and drinking is and should not be an option as it can be dangerous and even fatal. To use your head and act like drinking and driving is a just a statistical risk is …show more content…
In this article, the author tries to convey that the United States Congress should lower the BAC to 0.8 from 0.10. She provides the reader with a graph that shows how deaths on the roadway have gone down since 1983. But lowering the BAC over the past few years really been the only reason deaths have gone down. Over the past few years’ cars have become safer and speed limits have dropped in highly populated areas. To say that deaths have dropped in traffic related accidents because of the stricter BAC laws is outrageous. There are many factors as to why traffic related deaths are down, and car safety is a big one. Later, in her article, she mentions how deaths how dropped nearly 13% in a year since the new law, and 7,000 lives are being saved each year. This is an appeal to vanity as she is trying to flatter the reader into thinking this law is working. As I mentioned above, there could be many reasons for way deaths are on the decline She tries to use appeal to pity, as she brings up an instance where a mother died after being struck by a drunk driving who had twice the legal amount of alcohol in his body. While explaining the incident she also brought up how the mother had three children also. She is really trying to get the reader to feel bad for the family of the mother. She wanted to make sure that everyone knew the driver had twice the amount of alcohol in his system because