The 2007 rampage at Virginia Tech, in which 32 people died, was marked as the country's worst mass shooting until, a local gay nightclub called Pulse in Orlando, Florida had a shooting riot occur on Sunday at 2 a.m. A man named Omar Mateen is fully responsible for the shooting, he entered the nightclub and randomly open fired. He pressured people to drop to the floor and others to crawl and scramble to the back entrance of the nightclub to escape. He then held a hostage standoff, which lasted for about three hours. The standoff then ended in a shootout with the police, which left Mateen dead. The police then hurried into the Pulse nightclub to help the hostages. The aftermath of the shooting was a terrifying sight to witness. The Mayor
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As a solution to gun control, I think the general public should come together to pressure the Congress into making a law that prevents people from accessing guns easily. When someone wants to purchase a gun, the U.S. should make it mandatory for the owner of a gun shop to thoroughly check an individual's background before selling a gun to them. When the Second Amendment was passed, the Congress knew that there would be negative effects of selling guns to the public, yet, the Congress doesn’t try to prevent gun owners from selling guns to the public. Incidents like the Sandy Hooks Elementary School shooting, the 2012 Aurora shooting, should have provoked the Congress into passing a law for gun control. I want to mention that, the U.S. worries more about Immigration than gun control. The U.S. is in a hurry to assure the general public is protected from Immigrants with criminal convictions, but doesn’t assure that our own citizens, like Mateen, aren't committing acts of terrorism towards other citizens. I believe there wasn’t any security guards patrolling the nightclub. I always thought every nightclub would have security guards patrolling a club to prevent any situations from happening. If the Pulse nightclub was being patrolled by security guards, the shooting could have been prevented because they would have sensed that Mateen was up to something based off of his appearance and
As a solution to gun control, I think the general public should come together to pressure the Congress into making a law that prevents people from accessing guns easily. When someone wants to purchase a gun, the U.S. should make it mandatory for the owner of a gun shop to thoroughly check an individual's background before selling a gun to them. When the Second Amendment was passed, the Congress knew that there would be negative effects of selling guns to the public, yet, the Congress doesn’t try to prevent gun owners from selling guns to the public. Incidents like the Sandy Hooks Elementary School shooting, the 2012 Aurora shooting, should have provoked the Congress into passing a law for gun control. I want to mention that, the U.S. worries more about Immigration than gun control. The U.S. is in a hurry to assure the general public is protected from Immigrants with criminal convictions, but doesn’t assure that our own citizens, like Mateen, aren't committing acts of terrorism towards other citizens. I believe there wasn’t any security guards patrolling the nightclub. I always thought every nightclub would have security guards patrolling a club to prevent any situations from happening. If the Pulse nightclub was being patrolled by security guards, the shooting could have been prevented because they would have sensed that Mateen was up to something based off of his appearance and