Shotgun

On August 17th, 2012 my father age 61 committed suicide. No one could have prepared me for the devastating news. My father who had been my protector, provider, teacher and super hero had used a shotgun to take his own life. Throughout the ensuring weeks, my mind raced with unanswerable questions. Why had he committed suicide? How could he have chosen to leave my brothers and I? Could I have intervened and saved him? How could I, his daughter, have not seen that he was suffering? As the days…

It’s no secret that when something tragic happens to you, you are no longer the same person as yesterday. The only difference is whether or not the change was for the better or for the worse. In the case of Mathilde in the short story The Necklace by Edgar V. Roberts, her character changes at the end of the story. The story is stretched out for more than 10 years. From the start, Mathilde is a working class housewife who is very miserable because she believes she is more worthy of things that…

American go to the emergency with gunshot wounds each year. There’s alway a saying it’s time for a change and in it’s time for a change right now with guns and enforced gun control. I never really cared about guns i had never been hunting i don’t own a shotgun cause i don’t need to kill i’m good basketball is my gun. There was 464,033 total deaths, even if you have a felony or his mentally ill some people who have and or can still get guns and possible harm or kill.High capacity magazines were…

yellow has been a normal Saturday morning for me since I was about ten. The day starts off with a drive to the Los Altos Rod & Gun Club or the Sunnyvale Rod & Gun Club with my dad. Knowing that I am about to shoot a variety of guns consisting of: shotguns, pistols, and rifles; causes my heart rate to go up. I am usually the only girl at the shooting range, and I am not the only one to notice. Whenever I step up to take my round of shooting there is always a line of viewers that gathers to watch.…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Now I Lay Me” (1927) covers the effects of post traumatic stress disorder on Nick after he is wounded in the war. Nick suffers from some form of panic as his mind creates a severe terror after he is bombed in the night. Unable to sleep because he is afraid of dying, Nick instead chooses a form of self-care which relies heavily on his own memory of scenes from his life before the war, his religion and his favorite pre-war pastime. While it seems that Nick is coping with his…

Kurt Vonnegut expresses to his audience the dangers of an equal society and how the government is in complete control of its people through his characters, plot, and symbolism in the short story Harrison Bergeron. In this short story the free will of thinking, academic intelligence and people’s body from attractiveness to muscle power are being controlled by the government. The government has reached this harsh equality among its people by handicapping their citizens. If а person is too…

Immediately you run into the store to see what has happened. The woman that you just saw is holding the young child crying and screaming “why?” You ask the store clerk what happened and he said a middle age man came into store with a sawed-off shotgun demanding all the money. The little boy walked around the counter and surprised the robber. The robber turned to the boy and shot. As you are watching the news that night you see the story of the death of a five-year-old child shot and killed…

I remember waking up that morning as my best buddy Chevy stares right at me from the floor beside the bed. He already knew we were going hunting that day. He stayed up all night anticipating this day since he saw me getting our gear together the night before. Unaware of what was to transpire that day, we proceeded to go through the ritual of a normal duck hunting day. Creeping around the house, trying not to wake up the girls, we slipped outside to warm up the truck. Although it wasn’t much…

Humans invented guns for other humans of all races and genders to be able to protect themselves. A gun is a firearm which the shooter loads shells, if a shotgun, or cartridges, if a rifle or pistol, into. When one pulls the trigger of a firearm, the hammer is released, hitting the primer on the shell or cartridge. The struck primer creates a micro sized spark, igniting the gunpowder, sending a deadly piece of lead, or other material, flying. Without guns and the proper ammunition to be used,…

firearm that they carry with them wherever they go , no matter where they are at. I say fireman because it is not always the regular pistol that they have, sometimes if they are traveling in groups some people like to have the bigger guns such as he shotgun, machine gun, or even sometimes some police officers like to carry just a stick that they are always suppose to have with them. The firearms they carry have one purpose and one purpose only, and that's so they feel safe, and they are ordered…