On December 14th, 2012, the lives of thousands, and indirectly millions changed after the shooting of twenty children and six teachers were fatally shot by the infamous Sandy Hook Elementary school shooter, Adam Lanza. This event was so dramatic and sickening the world stopped in it’s tracks waiting for what was going to happen next. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the cauldron was stirred and the underlying question resurfaced; What should we do about gun control laws? Should the people of America even have guns? After a number of shootings occurring and Sandy Hook occurring, Barrack Obama addressed the event and spoke about “reducing gun violence” and promoting “gun safety” drawing many citizens to support his cause. Anyone who has a heart
Mass shootings are a horrific event prevalent in our society for many years. On July 18, 1984, James Huberty fires with his long-barreled Uzi at a McDonald’s San Ysidro, California, killing twenty-one adults and children. Another gunman, George Hennard, fires in a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, killing a total of twenty-three people on On October 16, 1991. A different mass murderer, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots thirty-two students and faculty members dead at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia on April 16, 2007. Additionally, Adam Lanza opens fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut killing twenty students aging from six to seven, and six staff on December 14, 2012. All too often in the history of America, innocent
1, 2, 3, 4, Gun Massacres could be knocking at ones school doors. Since 2011 school shootings and other related crimes have been increasing. The two articles goals are to show that the NRA (National Rifle Association) has been selling high leveled guns to anybody without needing a permit. The two articles are both saying how easy it is to access guns without needing a background check. The article “We Call BS” is written by Emma Gonzalez and the article “Guns In America” is written by Bloomberg. For that reason , the goals of the two articles is to show how easy it is to access guns in America.
On October 1st, on a Sunday, at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, through a hotel window 500-600 people were injured and 58 people lost their lives. My paper will be about the heros in the shooting and who they were and what they did to become heros. My paper is also about what makes a hero, and who has been a hero in my life. Some of the heros in the Las Vegas shooting went by the names of Mark Jay, a brother and a hockey coach, Krystal Goddard and Amy MccAslin. I will tell you these heroic stories each in different paragraphs.
A note containing a series of numbers was found in the hotel room where the Las Vegas massacre was fired, investigators believe that those numbers helped the gunman to make his shots more precise. These numbers included the distance between the height of the room and the concert. It still has not been possible to determine what caused Paddock to carry out the shooting.
According to the U.S. compare with other countries of the article, i am aware of that there are some reason cause people suffer the mass shooting, which U.S is a unique gun country and it is not a big ideal for delusional or vengeful people to procure a semiautomatic handgun of the rifle. Obviously, if people can get weapon easily in their country, it is not hard to explain why the country has this tragedy of a mass shooting. Also, mass shooting would incessant in that way. So, i think the fist solution to reduce mass shooting that is careful reflection on gun control laws.
On Friday morning, two young girls were killed at Independence High School in Arizona. The shooting took place early in the morning before classes started. The two girls, fifteen years old and sophomores, appeared to be really good friends in a relationship. Names of the girls have not been released by the police.
In san Antonio early morning halloween party, a man dressed as freddy krueger pulls out a concealed gun and started firing after an altercation with some friends, he hit 4 men and one women. A Fulshear police officer shot and killed 42-year-old Christy Sheets after she shot her two daughters, 22-year-old Taylor and 17-year-old Madison to death in the middle of the street in broad daylight. On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people were killed and seventy others were injured, which was the largest number of casualties in a shooting in the United States. In america going out and buying a gun is easy and affordable. American homes and streets are plagued with guns we keep under our beds in our closet or take them with us everywhere we go. It is disturbingly easy for someone to pick up a gun and fire their anger into their school, the place they
On April 20, 1999, twelve students and one teacher were shot and murdered at Columbine High School. The reason? Two students wanted to impact the country. This incident opened the minds of the American people to the issue of gun abuse. However, despite this event and others similar to it, a number of citizens still uphold their “Second Amendment Rights”, and will not budge for the betterment of our American society. American citizens manage to only
The mass shooting in Vegas makes me feel empathetic towards the families of the victims. The fear and panic felt is not exclusive to concert-goers, but is shared by their loved ones at home. For example, the family of my sister 's best friend have been vacationing in Las Vegas this past week, and staying at the Luxor hotel, a block away from the location of the shooting. The fear felt by the Craft family was reflected in my father 's face this morning, as he feared for their safety as much as they did. My heart goes out to the families of those that were affected by this shooting
In today’s age, gun violence has continued to climb. With an increase in thefts, break in’s, murders school shootings and suicides. We used to think America was so great and peaceful, but not so much anymore. Crime rates have gone up so much and people are starting to realize that most people aren’t safe without protection and that where guns come into the story.
This paper will seek to determine why have school shootings become familiar media events. On April 20th 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two students of Columbine High School, equipped with multiple firearms including explosives went on a killing spree, before committing suicide (Kohn, 2001). Wounding more than 20 people and causing the death of 13 people, the Columbine High School shooting is considered as one of the most important school shootings in history. School shooting is the action in which ‘multiple intentional killings’ are carried out in ‘educational institutions’ by one or more perpetrators (Böckler et al., 2013, p.3). The devastating event not only appeared on newspapers but it has since been adapted into an Oscar-winning
Imagine sitting in a desk when out of nowhere gunshots are heard. Panic strikes the classroom. The
On April 20, 1999, two heavily-armed teenagers calmly walked into their High School in Littleton, Colorado killing thirteen people and wounding more than twenty. The Columbine High School incident drew national and worldwide attention. Leading to widespread discussion over gun control and the prevention of school violence. With unstable characters like this jumping through ineffective background checks, and acquiring illegal firearms, nobody is safe. While we believe that our little village of Whitehouse, Ohio is far removed from any of this, the truth is that we are not. That is what the horrified families of the young victims in Newtown,
According to Everytownresearch “Every one out of 30 schools from 2009 to 2012 had to deal with one of their students kindergarten through twelfth either having a gun or using a gun on school property.” Every time a school shooting or school massacre happens way more than they should and every time something like this happens they are getting worse each time. There are many causes to school shootings, ways schools are trying to respond the this kind of stuff happening, and examples of this kind of stuff that has happened in the world like the first school shooting, most massive, and the younger shooter to show what kind of stuff happens when something like a school shooting does occur. A school shooting is defined as “when a firearm was discharged