Texas Government should take action in banning texting while driving

Is it really important to stay connected to your device during every minute of the day? Many accidents occur nowadays are blamed on distracted driving and most of the distractions are caused by cell phone usage. Texting or using a cell phone while driving is very dangerous to oneself and other people. The common reason the majority of people disapprove texting while driving because it causes a great amount of accidents per year. There are many laws being established to prevent this problem, but it has not gone down either. In Texas, texting while driving is consider to be illegal in school zone only. However, Texas government should expand the banning of texting beside school zone.

According to a Dallas article, on February 2013, Governor Rick Perry vetoed a statewide ban on texting while driving (dallasnews.com). He reasoned that since all drivers have gone through the course where they learn about safety, it is unnecessary to do a statewide ban. Instead, each person should responsible for their own act and be mature about texting. There is a study released by the Highway Loss Data Institute saying that banning texting while driving did not result in fewer crashes. In my opinion, the important point to focus on is not only banning texting but actually making it happen. There’re many ways in which the government can actually ban texting not only by putting it as a law on paper. The government could use the advantage of technology and create a program where all cell phones would automatically turn off after the driver turn on the engine. Another way is to raise public awareness about the dangerous of texting through public presentations. “If the state is not willing to say whether it’s right or wrong [and] if the government can’t involved in public safety, then what government is there for” (dallasnews.com)

Same-sex Marriage Ban (Blog Stage 6)

Recently, same-sex marriage has become a controversial issue and gets debate repeatedly around the country. There are questions arising in whether the government should ban same-sex marriage or is it illegal. After reading the argument from Texas.State.Government blog, I totally disagree with his view on defending same-sex marriage. First of all, not to be religionist but I am a Catholic, so in my opinion, same-sex marriage is a wrong thing. Speaking socially and generally, same-sex marriage should be ban in this country due to many reasons. One of the most important reason is it will somewhat affects the children who get raise by same sex parents. I agree with the opinion from supporters of same-sex marriage ban saying “that allowing such unions would hurt children raised in them” and the results would lead to “incest, group marriage, pedophilia…(cnn.com)” Children are the foundation of our country and they should get raise normally or it will turn out bad later on. Everything should be place in orders at the beginning or it will turn out bad at the end. Children who get raise by same-sex parents tend to develop weird reasons and point of views regard sex and this could lead them to a wrong direction. In addition, how other countries around the world will think about us if gay marriage get approve in the US? Yes, we are a top-leading country around the world in everything ranging from technology to business to education but are low in the personality within each individual.