Virginia Tech massacre

My story covers the topic of the shooting that took place at Northern Arizona University during the early hours of the morning on Friday, October 9. A freshman and pledge of Sigma Chi at the university became involved in a fight with other students around 1:20 a.m. He then proceeded to run to his car and picked up a handgun. He shot four members of the Delta Chi, another fraternity, multiple times, killing one of his victims. Students that attend the university were upset because the university…

Since December of 1791 all US citizens have had the right to bear arms thanks to the 2nd amendment and ever since then people have argued that this right is too much for people to handle and that people will suffer drastically for this. Today in America we are seeing huge debates in all governments due to the tragedies of recent school shootings around America like Sandy Hook. So many were moved by what happened at Sandy Hook and tried to find ways to prevent this from ever happening again but…

With technology being more accessible to people, we have the capability of receiving constant updates on the latest stories, specifically news reports. The news offers us information on health reports, the government, and crime. Typically the news is our main source of information, especially for affairs in and out of the country, and so we use the content displayed in the news in order to determine the state of the world. With the news generally reporting devastating and horrifying stories, we…

“Blood is here, blood is there. I played dead for about five minutes, he was shooting. I could hear him in another room, I could hear people screaming.” Marcus Gooden was out with friends at the popular gay club in Orlando on June 12, 2016 (WFTV) It was supposed to be an evening of dancing and enjoying time with friends.But that night and early morning, hundreds of people like Marcus spent their time in Pulse as targets in one of the worst mass shooting in US history. Pulse, which was an LGBT…

enrolled at Virginia Tech University, where he majored in English to become a writer. His parents, who were hard working, took care of his college expenses while other college students used their parent’s money for the wrong reasons. Cho didn’t like that. Cho was labeled a “failure” because the book he written and proposed was rejected. No clarification onto why it was rejected. That right there could’ve been part of the reason he went on the rampage killing 32 students and wounding 17 at…

The 2nd Amendment was put into act on December 15, 1791. When we study the 2nd Amendment there are two arguments relating to this Amendment. The first one is the individual’s rights and that this Amendment adopted to preserve individual rights and to keep and bear arms. Secondly it adopted the rights to preserve the states militia and or military. Our states’ rights to regulate fire arms have basically been nearly absolute due to case law. The 2nd Amendment has been interpreted to keep the…

money to the stockbroker, bond trader, and banker than to the waiter, policeman, fireman, and soldier, he had to accept that no two lives were worth the same in financial terms. That is until he had to compensate funds again, but this time for the Virginia Tech shootings and the death of thirty-two people. This is where he could not hold up his training with the law and said, “And I realized that Feinberg the citizen should trump Feinberg the lawyer.”(Feinberg 1) Which basically means that he…

In the first half of 2016, the United States alone has had over 136 mass shootings (by definition, an incident in which four or more people are wounded or killed), and is growing rapidly. (Gun Violence Archive) This topic in particular has been one of heavy discussion in the past few years, due to a wide range of interests. Is it because of the current implementation on firearm laws in the United States, or something much more sinister? In today’s world, the moment that a mass shooting erupts…

killing a mass amount of people. Officials say that even though mass shootings won’t completely stop, with better background checks there will be “tighter control” that can save “a significant number of lives” (Rosenwald). An example would be the Virgina Tech shooting in 2007 when 32 people were killed but, weeks before Seung-Hui Cho was banned from buying a firearm because a court found him to be “severely mentally ill.” Yet he still passed a background check only because his records never made…

“The deadliest school shooting in U.S. history took place April 16th, 2007, when a gun man killed 32 people before killing himself at Virginia Tech, a public University in Blacksburg, Virginia.” (http://www.history.com/topics/columbine-high-school-shootings) On top of the 32 deaths that happened on this horrific day in our history, 17 people were wounded but survived. 30 of the deaths were students and 5 were faculty members of the university. Twenty-three year old Seung Hui Cho was…