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    fairly is a top priority. We can often help to reduce DWI charges for our clients in the Houston area. Do not wait to get the expert guidance needed to ensure the best outcome. Understanding the Law and Your Rights As you may already know, the state of Texas does not take a driving while intoxicated offense lightly. A conviction could affect your record and many aspects of your life, so a DWI…

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    “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun” (Wayne 2012, as cited in NRA 2012). There are approximately 44 homicides per day or 16,238 per year in the United States. Of those, 11,000 included death by firearm. According to the second amendment citizens of the U.S. have the right to bear arms. Even though the majority of deaths were by guns, “any gun control law would not prevent evil people from enacting their homicidal plans” (Farago 2015). More gun control legislation…

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    Homicide and Assault: A Comparative Analysis of Attributes in Dallas Neighborhoods, 1981-1985 by Keith D. Harries from the University of Maryland Baltimore County hypothesized “the legal labels homicide and assault represent essentially similar behaviors differing principally in outcome rather than process” (p. 29). According to Harries (1989), to test this papers’ hypothesis it seeks the relationship between the high crime rates and the poverty areas based off the status of the neighborhoods (p…

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    Primary Enforcement Laws

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    percent in states that allow police to pull over drivers for texting, according to new research from the American Journal of Public Health. Analyzing national traffic fatality data over an 11-year period, researchers studied the effects of primary enforcement laws, as well as of laws that ban the practice but allow police to write tickets only in conjunction with other traffic violations. Primary enforcement laws proved most effective, preventing an average of nearly 20 vehicular deaths per…

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    Gun Control In The Media

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    After the recent shooting that took place at Umpqua Community College and Northern Arizona University, talks about gun control has sparked once again in the media. This is the 46th shooting at a school so far in 2015. It seems as if after a tragedy happens, we are reminded on what guns can do. Yet, once the chaos begins to die down, the conversation of gun control dies alongside it. So is the media addressing gun control only when breaking news comes along with it? That seems to be the case. Yes…

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    The Ad Hominem fallacy is the act of attacking the characteristic of a person in an argument rather than the argument itself. This fallacy is used to remove the creditability of someone due to things not in relation to the case. For example if a witness in a court case was a pasted convicted felon , then their credibility could be lost by the jury even though it was irrelevant information to the case at hand. Even if the statements made by the witness are true the jury may not believe him/her.…

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    Armed Violence Prevention

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    Unlike other forms of violence, armed violence causes a lot of chaos within society and perpetuates long-term violence. Violence prevention programmes are said to “target the opportunities and conditions that enable violence to occur”, while violence reduction programmes are said “to contain and reduce existing problems by focusing on people who perpetrate violence” (Bellis et al., 2010: 11). However violence prevention and reduction tends to overlap and because of this, one finds direct…

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    Golf is definitely a beautiful sport that will help you stay healthy and fit as well. Furthermore, if you are an amateur, then you each game will be a pleasure, without a doubt. There are some essential tips for beginner golfers that will definitely help you learn how to play this sport in a short period of time, and without a big effort. You cannot play golf without knowing the rules This is the first thing you must do. You certainly cannot play this wonderful sport if you do not know the…

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    The Matrix Ideology

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    Of course, not all media response was positive. Numerous shootouts and murders were alleged to have been linked to the release of the film, most notably the devastating Columbine high school massacre in 1999 just weeks after the film was released (Does 'The Matrix' Inspire the Disturbed). The media not only has its tendrils firmly wrapped around the message of the film, but the narrative following it. In this way, it controls the mental capital, the very desire to consume media. When Neo takes…

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    Gang Violence Solution

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    One of the hot topic stories of the twenty-first century is the issue of gang violence popping up all around the country. In places like New Mexico, California, Nevada and Idaho, gangs are the more concentrated. People are scared to go outside and live their daily lives because of the danger of getting hurt or even killed. So, how do we fix this? While some experts may try and go out and stop the present problem of gang violence, I think the most effective way to solve this problem is finding…

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