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Persuasive Speech On Mass Shootings

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The pictures was taken on Thursday, October 1st , at Stewart Park, in Umpqua Community College , Oregon . The first big impression in the picture , two women hold their handmade candle lights in their hands , hug each other tightly. They want to be closer to each other more than they can to erase the lonely and scared feelings in their faces. The woman in the center has the lost , depression look into the ground while the woman next to her hugs her tightly, closes her eyes to pray for all the victims. Somehow she was too afraid to face the dull surroundings around her . On the left side of the pictures ,the young student hold her candles looks at the other people with the sadness , she is really scare about what was happen in the school and …show more content…

We live in a society where we don’t know if someday someone with their mental illness will come to our places , houses or schools and does the same thing just like what Christopher Harper-Merced did to nine victims in Umpqua . We are always scared and over-react because we don’t feel safe in our own places. We are angry because we can not do anything to change the laws to avoid the mass shooting , which happen every few months in our country’s colleges . Some people feel we are just like the mouse in the cages. The mouse live in there, pray that there is no one will come close to them and kill them without any kind of insurance policy .That’s why we are always over-react about our security because we feel like we can not trust anyone and they can be the one who will hurt us and our family .I don’t think there is any different reactions from many people because it is the fact we all have to face …show more content…

I read so many titles about people, who have their personal illness, bring their own gun to shoot at everyone . We all remember about Adam Lanza , who had shot at twenty children and six staffs members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 , or Elliot Rodger , twenty-two years old men killed more than six innocent citizens in 2014. All of that happen because they have guns in their hands easily , and they can decide who will be no longer alive in their hands. According to www.washingtonpost.com , “So far in 2015, we had have 280 days and 294 mass shooting had happened.” , “ We have gone no more than eight days without one of these incidents each year” , and of course : “ There is the broader universe of nearly 10000 people killed and 20000 wounded in nearly 40000 gun violence incidents so far this year.” . And because we still have two more months to end 2015 , “ These very number will need to be updated again tomorrow .And the day after .And the day after that.” ( Christopher) . People in United States are allowed to have guns way easier than any other developed country in this planet. We must change the gun control so we can make sure our

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