Tag: safety

Enough Is Enough

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February 14th, 2018, a day supposed to symbolize love, will now forever be a reminder to students, friends, and families of how seventeen students were murdered in the last place kids should have to worry about being killed – a school.

October 27th, 2018, was the day when eleven Jews were killed in a synagogue, a place of worship.

November 7th, 2018, was the day college students were enjoying a night out at a bar and 12 people were murdered.

All of these people died at shootings. All of theses deaths were at the hands of horribly evil people with easy access to guns.

When will enough be enough?

How many people have to die until change happens?

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How many parents have to send their kids to school one day not knowing if they’ll ever get to see their child again?

How many kids have to walk into school every day and go through classes scared of the possibility of being put on lockdown, getting injured, or getting killed?

How many people have to say goodbye to their best friends, partners, and loved ones?

The answer is too many, because people would rather have their rights to guns than have children live.

The right for someone to live should override the right for someone to have a gun.

Yes, guns don’t kill people, people do, but people use guns to kill. People have such easy access to guns that the line blurs and guns themselves are just as much of a threat as the people who have the right to hold them.

We’re not asking to outlaw guns, but we’re asking for restrictions. We’re asking to make schools safe again. To enjoy time at concerts, restaurants, churches, mosques, and synagogues without having to be afraid of being shot at.

Because enough is enough and change needs to happen.

Drive Safely.

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A few days ago, one of my friends in China got injured from a car accident, in which the driver was texting while driving.

The tragedy reminds me of an informal survey I did during this summer. The survey was based on the new policy about “texting-while-driving.”

Gov.Andrew Cuomo signed new legislation increasing penalties for teens caught texting-while-driving, and the penalties apply to any kind of cell-phone activity while driving. Under the proposal, violators’ licenses would be suspended for 60 days after their first conviction.

The number of cellphone-related car accidents in New York State increased by 143 percent between 2005 and 2011, according to New York.

According to my informal survey of 10 New Yorkers from East Village area, teenagers spend more time on texting than the older group and about 10% of people interviewed drive and text.

Drivers talking on cell phones are 18% slower to react to brake lights in front of them and they take 17% longer to return to their original speed after braking, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Also, early CBS reports showed that Harvard researchers estimate about one in 20 U.S. traffic accident involve a driver talking on a cell phone.

The legislation brought people in agreement. Most of people think the policy was fairly helpful and efficient.

However, there are still lots of people who remain neglectful the importance of not doing something else while driving. I think it is not only the governments’ responsibilities to reinforce the laws, but also people’s obligations to control themselves.

Please, when you drive, do not do anything else.
Texts can be delayed, lives can not.

Freedom Flys

frog3Leave a comment

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Tyranny persisted after the dark day.

It did not come from outsiders or attackers.

It came from the people with power.

Of course they talked about safety.

Safety from citizens, safety for citizens.

In a sense it is just another way for control.

The people protest nothing is done.

Security it seems often comes above safety.

Detainment and profiling is the norm.

It seems in a time of crisis democracy slides toward dictatorship.

There are some who wish to be secure and free.

It is they who allow basic freedoms to be restored.

The slide toward democracy begins.

A planes safety

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Liberties at stake in an explosive time.

A plane, symbol of power  and might is now secure

There are kindhearted people risking the security.

A bureaucratic organization is hated and despised.

The act passed the plane is no longer secure.

No knows what is right.

Should people be life be risked but give freedom?

Should freedom be sacrificed for the greater good?

The people have spoken, freedom must be protected from foreign and domestic enemies.

The decision is not passed likely.

There are those who are angry.

Keepers of the sky they are the ones who lives will be risked.

They rightfully hated the decision yet wish to drawn in nature given liberties.

Woman,(Do they always talk and drive?)

frog34 Comments

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Driving. Some regard it as one of the most dangerous activities a person could do. Regardless of your opinion it is no surprise to hear that most car accident involve adolescents . The two primary reasons are drunk driving and texting while driving. Texting while driving has become a serious issues in the past couple years. Many states(including California) have taken measures to stop texting deaths. Several states now have a law banning phone use while driving.

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On a semi sexist note studies show that teen female drivers are more likely to get into an accident then their male counterparts. This is do to the fact that female teens are more likely to be on a phone at any given time, even while driving. It would seem that the age old saying women can’t drive is true, at least in a certain age group.

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Money is the bane of mankind.

It lowers people.

It threatens people.

It transforms people.

There’s never enough.

There’s too much.

Money kicks people off onto the cold, concrete sidewalks

and opens their eyes to a hardship that hardens their hearts.

It is a temporary fix,

an illusion of superiority.

It blurs the line between necessity and desire.

So, if money brings only such superficial safety,

and if money

is such an enigma in our society,

why do i hold such ambitious dreams?

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