If you could enact one new law, what would it be?

Question

Wow! Some really great ideas here! It's gonna be tough to choose a best answer from this lot!

Answer 1

I would make alcohol illegal. Because
• Alcohol use is frequently associated with violence between intimate partners. Two-thirds of victims of intimate partner violence reported that alcohol was involved in the incident. 2

• In one study of interpersonal violence, men had been drinking in an estimated 45 percent of cases and women had been drinking in 20 percent of cases. 3

• Women whose partners abused alcohol were 3.6 times more likely than other women to be assaulted by their partners. 4

• In 1997, 40 percent of convicted rape and sexual assault offenders said that they were drinking at the time of their crime. 5

• In 2002, more than 70,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 were victims of alcohol-related sexual assault in the U.S. 6

• In those violent incidents recorded by the police in which alcohol was a factor, about nine percent of the offenders and nearly 14 percent of the victims were under age 21. 7

• Twenty-eight percent of suicides by children ages nine to 15 were attributable to alcohol. 8

• An estimated 480,000 children are mistreated each year by a caretaker with alcohol problems. 9

In spite of the tireless efforts of thousands of highway safety advocates over the past 25 years, drunk driving continues to be a major problem in this country. Nationwide, one person every 40 minutes, approximately 35 people a day, or nearly 13,000 people each year die in traffic crashes involving a driver or a motorcycle operator with a BAC of .08 or higher

Impaired drivers kills someone every 30 minutes. Youths who drink are 50x more likely to use alcohol.

45% Of crash fatalities.

Kills 6.5X more youth than all other illicit drugs COMBINED.

It ruins too many families.........

Answer 2

Oh i would have to say ammend the IR laws .. the government is always whinging about our economy, but yet they have just given bosses the opportunity to sack loyal employees with no notice, and all for what .. Lets get Jefferies to sack little johnnie and see how he likes it .. duress is so hard to prove in a court of law, so lets abolish the IR laws and bring back the arbitration of the 1900's ..

Answer 3

I would pass a law clarifiying that the constitution is not a restiction on the power of government, it is a grant of power.

If it is a restriction, the government can do anything except what they are told they cant.

If it is a grant, they are only allowed those powers specifically mentioned.

As it is, each party takes the first approach when they are in power and the latter when they aren't.

Answer 4

It would be to require all car companies in America to be produced with electric and ethanol engines.

During our next natural disaster is the time when Al Qaeda will bomb the oil refineries in Saudi Arabia. Our entire Country will be plunged into the kind of disaster from which we can't emerge because there will be no oil, no gas, no power.

Answer 5

That a pharmacist would be forbidden from refusing to fill any legal prescription. It's their job, for God's sake. It's NOT their job to pass judegment on the medication.

It's either fill the prescription or go to jail; that or get a different job, bud.

Answer 6

A ten year hiatus on new laws nationwide (i.e., local, county, state, and national) including all legislators at those levels going out and getting real jobs (unless they already have one).

Answer 7

I would encourage medical offices to do more stem cell research to cure as many diseases as possible. I would offer government funds available to do the research and offer a financial award to the first company (or Dr.'s office) that is able to cure cancer.

Answer 8

I would change our driving laws to protect victims of a car wreck when they are injured by someone elses stupidity and negligence.

Answer 9

No Diplomatic immunity You break our laws you pay the price like any one else has to

Answer 10

No New Immigrants.