A historical event that happened in my lifetime that had an impact on my life is the Walmart shooting in Thornton. Scott Ostrem was a forty-seven year old terrorist who had shot and killed three people in the Walmart in Thornton Colorado, on November 1, 2017. According to Scott’s step sister, after a party in 1988 where Scott had ingested sixteen doses of LSD, and when he had come home “he was terrified. He had voices in his head. Demons. 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. The Walmart shooting has also made me feel like I have to be more cautious about people, and …show more content…
As a society, we seem to be getting less outraged about each incident that happens, and start finding humor in serious events. Media has provided a medium for people to separate themselves from crimes because we are always seeing the latest shooting, or kidnapping, and therefore desensitizes us to violence. We also glorify violent acts by using loose words to explain what they had done, or by making excuses, such as calling the perpetrator a gunmen, somebody who has been through many hard times, or by blaming it on a