Three Days Before the Shooting

In theory, from all of my interviews, it seems that school shootings should be preventable. After the Parkland shooting, there have been many calls to make schools a "harder target" to hit for example, by arming teachers. However, there are so many ways and quite a lot of research that shows that gun control or more guns aren’t the way to…

“What a wonderful world” it truly is. Gun violence rising, mass shootings occurring, seems like the perfect time to be alive. Better yet, seems like the perfect time to “be an American.” Statistics show that approximately 11,127 Americans are killed each year by gun violence. With that being said, that places America at the very top of the list, with Japan only having an estimated 39 citizens. It is also revealed in the video documentary, Bowling for Columbine, that Canada is notorious for…

just broke Jose Ochoa’s ankles. He steps back for a three……… Bang! The squinty-eyed assassin plays basketball like a boss!” Do you play basketball like a boss? I don't think so. You have to play basketball like a boss, so you can be like the squinty-eyed assassin himself. To play basketball like a boss, you have to practice hard, ball up in the game, and last not but not least celebrate. First you are going to have to practice hard every single day. How do you think that all of the legends,…

The Luby shooting was a massacre that occurred on October 16, 1991. George Hennard was responsible for this massacre. At first he crashed his pickup truck into the luby restaurant. People thought it might be an accident but all of a sudden he took out a gun and started shooting people. He killed twenty three people and wounded twenty seven people. George carry 9mm Glock 17 pistol and 9mm Ruger P89 pistol (Citation). This was the third deadliest massacre in United States. It did not occur in…

who invented the modern blockbuster with the iconic movie ‘Jaws’. Steven Spielberg is the living legend in question. December 18th, 1946. This fateful day was the fateful day that Steven Allen Spielberg began to grace us all with his presence. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, He is the son of Leah Adler Posner and Arnold and the older brother to three sisters. We began seeing glimpses of his future greatness after his prize-winning film ‘Escape to Nowhere’, which he directed at the tender age of…

Three hundred eighty-five is the number of people killed in a mass shooting in 2016 according to the Gun Violence Archive which reflects the number of incidents reported and verified. Seven in a college town, five in an airport, and 49 in a nightclub the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. While the death tolls, places and memorial photos change there is one common characteristic; the weapon chosen. Though to be clear it is difficult to define what is considered a mass shooting and the…

Universities as of June 2015. There have been several school shootings that have taken place all around the United States. The two that stand out the most according to the news are Virginia Tech and Lonestar College. The headlines in 2013 were 3 wounded and 2 detained. This was regarding the shooting that took place at Lonestar College in Houston, Texas on January 22, 2103. “The Houston shooting comes roughly a month after the deadly shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school that…

Although regional differences are not as distinct these days, many issues are currently causing division among the states and people of our country. These issues lead to what our history class describes as “modern sectionalism.” One such issue is Whether teaches or staff members of a school should be armed with guns. In my article the author says that the school…

December 6, 2016 is a day that I’ll not forget anytime soon. I have never felt such a genuine energy and calmness at the same time. But the story really began four years before that in an airplane. I was nine years old on my way to America, and I was looking at a page of American sports. I held the page up to my parents, and I asked the question,”Which one of these is basketball?” because, in Ethiopia, I had never even seen a basketball. I remember the first time I tried shooting hoops at a…

In recent years there has been an uprising against police violence and shootings in various communities in the United States. Many of these communities are determined to make a change and are standing firm in the fight against injustice. Things were no different in Cleveland, Ohio in 2014. Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice, a residence of Cleveland, lived with his mother and siblings on the west side of the city. November 23, 2014 was a rather normal Sunday for Tamir. He was playing at a local park…