A local journalist took two of the victims from the shooting to the K-Mart headquarters and they asked for K-Mart to stop selling bullets in their stores. The journalist empowered the two victims to take a stand. Since the boys who committed the crime killed themselves they thought the next best thing was K-Mart. They went to the headquarters and spoke to the supervisor of the gun section but got ignored. They left and came back the next day, this time they came with the media and newspaper reporters so K-Mart would have to listen.
In the article He Was Shot Helping People During the Las Vegas Shooting , a boy by he name of Jonathan Smith was shot at least two times while trying to run and save others. He took a big risk by being a hero. He’s a hero because at the moment didn’t care about his life, he cared about other people he didn’t even know. He was shit in his neck and also in his arm and he still survived. Jonathan was really blessed, one because he became a hero ,and secondly because he’s still alive.
Have you ever heard the name Chris Kyle? If you haven’t I’m going to tell you about him. He was one of the greatest Snipers in the world. He was also known as American Sniper. To his fellow soldiers his nickname was “Legend”.
Allusions? Cullen describes the impact that Harris and Klebold had on other school shooting, particularly Seung-Hui Cho’s siege at Virginia Tech. “He understand only that Eric and Dylan left an impression” (Cullen 348). Cullen’s inclusion of this other shooting demonstrates that the shooters left behind a legacy, albeit one of tragedy.
yelled the mother of the child. “Everybody shut up, sit down, and don’t move!” said the shooter. While there were little children crying, the shooter was yelling and threatening people. A little while after the shooter was walking around the building, a very brave man stood up and ran him to the floor. Sometimes people have to have help searching for their identities, such as tests, etc.
Even though she does not have any of the background or credentials to write about the shooting itself, Kacey is the most qualified person to tell her own story. Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson and Karen Booker Schelhaas’s thesis throughout this book was that physical, mental, and emotional suffering can be overcome through a lot of hard work, courage and resilience to build a life, a family, and a loving home. The book followed through with this thesis by showing how Kacey’s courage and resilience helped her overcome her personal struggles and difficulties of her teenage years, to come out of it better than ever and helping her build the strength to share her story and use it for good, as well as continuing on to build a loving family in her adult life. One example of this is when Kacey overcame her mental struggles after so many of her friends passed away, she recovered from her deep depression and suicidal ideation through perseverance and faith. With the help and the support of her family and her church, Kacey recovered and learned from her struggles.
December 14 2012 was the dayr the whole town of newtown and the neighboring cities were shook with shock. Adam Lanza, a 16 year old connecticut resident broke the hearts of many and created problems for years to come. His father was a gun fanatic and owned many in his household, along with his mother, who also owned quite a few. But along with that, adam owned many books on mass shootings, which gave no reason why he may have acted in such a violent way, but revealed that even those who are not expected to kill can have the courage to do the worst they could do. Adam was believed to have killed his mother before murdering 26 others in Sandy Hook Elementary school, 6 adults and 20 children, ages 6-7 (Biography).
From the recent case of the Connecticut shooting, this article explains how there is an increase of demand in the state of Dallas for high powered guns due to the Government speculated to impose a strict no gun law . The problem is the decrease in supply causing excess demand which then creates a shortage in the market. This problem can be visualised through the means of a negative externality graph. Before the incident, the price point of guns lie at point Qe.
This article has great viewpoints, use of argumentative reasoning, and shows what truly happens in the hallways of a school shooting. The main person he explains is Eric Harris, who killed over two-thousand students and faculty in a Colorado high school in 1998. He set off bombs all over the school and used a semi-automatic
A historical event can impact a lot of people such as the massacre at a theater in Aurora, Colorado in July 20, 2012. During the newest Batman movie debut “ ... A gunman opened fire..”(Wertheimer 1). Twelve people died, which impacted their family members, and other 70 people were injured during the shooting, and that’s why now they think twice before going to watch a movie again. ” Minutes after the attack, police arrested James Holmes.
Ran toward the shots, got up to the third floor, killed the shooter, took care of business, rescued all these kids," Branter-Smith said (Conklin). [Insert the millions
I had to drag myself to the vigil not because I felt that it was a waste of time but because I did not want to think about what happened. These shootings had always seemed to be something that happened to other people, I never in my worst nightmare thought that these atrocities would hit so close to home. I saw the Oak Creek Shooting as a personal attack on myself, due to the deep wounds inflicted on the Sikhs after the 9-11 bombings. Sikhs were mistaken for Muslims and widely attacked, friends and family members of mine had narrated the horror stories of their lost loved ones. These memories flooded my mind, obligating me to make my way to the vigil in support of the victim’s
People are always losing their life and it is depressing to hear about it. Today I was on Facebook, and people was marking they was safe in Orlando, I was lost trying to figure out what exactly was going on. Something told me to go do my current event for this week when I looked on the website and the first thing that I saw was the Orlando shooting. The shooter is from Port Saint Lucie and the shooting occurred in Orlando. I am trying to find out why was he even in Orlando.
Further, five years later, in the year 2009, I lost another family member to gunshot violence, who was shot in the head and died instantly; this family member was also close
According to a witness, one man was crawling through the parking lot, attempting to hide, when Dear caught sight of him. Dear then stalked the man through the lot. It is unclear whether this man survived. Another witness, William Carson, 23, had just gotten out of his car when he heard the gunshots. “I heard six or seven shots while I was still out of the car.
