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On October Third there was a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was at a Jason Aldean concert that the shooting occurred. There were 22,000 attendees at the outdoor concert on the Vegas Strip. Almost 50 to 60 people were killed and 500+ injured. Prayers and Sympathy are pouring in from all around the world, especially Washington D.C. President Donald Trump says: “We are joined together today in sadness, shock, and grief. Last night, a gunman opened fire in a large crowd, at a country music concert. It was an act of pure evil.” The suspected gunman was later found in his hotel room unconscious. The lone gunman was Stephen Paddock. Police officials say they don’t know said man and they don’t know how they could have prevented the attack from happening that night. Clark County Sheriff, Joe Lombardo, says: “Well, we have to establish what his motivation is first and there 's motivating factors associated with …show more content…

As we have asked people, they think it is. Continuously our reporter heard “This was an act of terror!” As it is not proven yet, we still have our opinions and thoughts about this

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On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting occurred in Parkland Florida. The shooter, Nicholas Cruz, opened fire on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Seventeen innocent students were shot and killed, while 17 others were injured. In my first article, Parkland Gunman Was Still Firing When Police Arrived on a Gruesome Scene by Patricia Mazzei, we learn that Cruz had not ceased fire even after police had arrived.

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Jonathan Smith was a hero during the Las Vegas shooting on October 3rd, 2017 in the article of , ”The man who was shot during the Las Vegas shooting.”. This man was at the Las Vegas concert and didn’t realize he was apart of one of the biggest mass shooting attacks. He had driven from his home town, Orange County, to Las Vegas California with some of his family for the country music festival. During the concert he thought he heard fireworks, then he saw guards escorting Jason Aldean off stage, he knew at this time what he heard was gunshots. Smith and his brother Rust focused on the family, as they told them to hold hands and run.

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On Sunday, October 1st at 10:08 pm, Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured more than 500 people. This was one of the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. An outdoor country music concert was disturbed by gun shots for about ten minutes. This outdoor concert was held across the road from the Mandalay Bay Resort, where Mr. Paddock was staying. The gunshots continued for eleven minutes after the first 911 call was placed.

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Today, 14 people were killed and 17 others were wounded by the mass shooting that occurred in San Bernardino- California. Three gunmen entered the social service center located in San Bernardino and opened fire on people. Witnesses claimed that the shooters were armed with long guns, wearing ski masks and military-style vests. The chief police Jarrod Burguan alarmed the people to be safe because one of the killers is still free and they didn’t find him yet. However, the police managed to identify one of the killers called Syed Farooq.

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Yes, I do believe that biological and psychologically theories can both be applied to the Virginia Tech massacre; I think that both theories had a 50-50 chance of Cho’s characteristics. Williams mentioned in his one of his three somatotypes proposed that being an “introverted” reclusive person can be of many reasons for criminal behaviors (as cited in Hagan, 2013, p. 134). According to Hagan (2013), Cho “was a “loner,” and he felt that he was picked on and made fun of; he was bullied due to speech difficulties” (p. 216). This to me further solidifies Williams’s somatotypes theory of being a sensitive person who can snap at any given moment, for reasons such as poked many times like he was, having a different accent, race, in a surrounding

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The shots that were fired were too fast to just be one person because the bolt action rifle that was supposedly used couldn’t fire that fast even professional shooters that we tested couldn't do that and the shots that were fired came out in less than 10 seconds. The text says that there was also a police killing the same day too but the two eyewitness descriptions were

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On December 14, 2012 is the day that the citizens of Newtown, Connecticut experience sorrow And the wrong type of fame. On Dec. 24, 2012 a man named Adam Lanza took the life of his own mother by shooting her in the head and then traveled to a nearby school called “sandy Hook Elementary” and releasing hell on 20 unfortunate children between the age of 5-10 and 6 adults that gave up their lives to protect the young ones. This devastating day had a big impact on all of society, not just the citizens that live in Newtown but in other states and countries. Adam was a young man that terrified kids to go to school, also had an effect on parents accepting they lost of family and friends, and finally the law to have a firearm changed after the board

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There doesn’t seem to be a consensus of what terrorist constitutes among the public. The counter arguments suggest that it’s not terrorism because there is no evidence of political motives. Basically, what it comes down to is people should consider how their use

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AmandaRosa Edwards Human Sexuality 251 DB On Sunday June 12th,2016 a horrific attack occurred in a popular gay nightclub known as “Pulse Club” in Orlando, Florida where 49 people were gruesomely murdered and at least 53 people were injured. Ralph Ellis, Ashley Fantz, Faith Karimi and Eliott C. McLaughlin of CNN collaborated to cover this incident and submitted an article to CNN’s online webpage titled Orlando shooting: 49 killed, shooter pledged ISIS allegiance. Omar Mateen who was 29 years of age, resided in another area of Florida however, he was born in New York specifically, Long Island. Mateen worked as a security officer at G4S Secure Solutions which has been noted by CNN to be one of the world’s largest private security companies.

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The shooter, James Eagan Holmes, was equipped with multiple firearms, and grenades. He killed 12 innocent people and injured 70 others. Although Holmes was sentenced to life in prison, the victims and their families were permanently scarred. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and fatally shot 26 people, 20 of them were children. Earlier that day, he shot and killed his mother.

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Everybody heard the bloody gunshots. I am sure that one day the God will punish all the unforgivable sins. Everything was happening too quickly. Too quick as if it was a dream, not reality. This must be the devil's curse.

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My brother was freaking out”. Police said that he had no motive, even though he had only killed three Hispanic people. Although there were, and are going to be so much worse shootings in my lifetime, the Walmart shooting is what had impacted me the most, because my cousin was about forty feet away from the shooter, she could have gotten hurt herself, and I was the one who took her to work that day, and if she would’ve been shot, it would be partly my fault. I don’t know what I would have done without her, I probably would have shut down, and I think that it has helped me realize how much I actually care for her, and others, usually I am not very good at noticing or showing my feelings for people.

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Authorities say the 64-year-old gunman, Stephen Paddock, shot at the victims from the 32nd floor perch. Authorities said that Paddock checked into the Madala Bay Resort and Casino on Thursday, a day before the event at a crowd attending a music festival below.. Paddock brought with him “in excess of 10 suitcases,” according to police. The cases held at least 23 weapons, many of them rifles ranging in size from .308 to .223 caliber, along with two tripods including a camera he positioned in the peephole of the door. When police entered his hotel room, they discovered Paddock had shot himself.

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The aforementioned article describes the debate occurring regarding the Texas massacre and the gun violence associated with it. 26 people were killed in the shooting, however the perpetrator himself soon became one of the many victims of a fatal gunshot wound and soon killed himself after being chased down. The population seems to have reached a divide where they are unsure whether this adds to or takes away from the constitution of the right to own guns. President Donald Trump claimed that the act was the work of a disabled man and that if Devin Patrick Kelley, the perpetrator, had not been shot, there would have been many more casualties. Meanwhile, those who oppose the second amendment persist in using this situation to dispute gun rights,

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On December 2nd, an incident happened in San Bernardino that shocked the nation. Although, we see a shooting on the news almost daily, the 2015 San Bernardino shooting that killed fourteen people and harmed twenty-two others still took America to a shock. The shooting consisted of two people, who happened to be married and had a six-month-old child, went into a mental hospital facility and opened fire on the patients and staff that worked or lived there. The male of the couple happened to work for the hospital but nobody knows the motive behind why the couple did what they did.

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