The Texas Church Shooting "People covered in blood and screaming. It was pandemonium everywhere. " A shooting November 5, at a church, occurred at eleven a.m.…
A contributing factor for these school shootings is that each of the shooters was given access to guns even though they had mental issues. The Columbine shooters had a friend buy their guns. Howard Pankratz, form The Denver Post, reported that a co-worker of Harris and Klebold introduced them to Mark Manes, the guy that sold them the guns they used in the shooting. Harris and Klebold met up with Manes at a gun show and purchased one of the guns used. This purchase was illegal since both Harris and Klebold were minors.…
Nine shots were fired Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A white male enters the church around 8 p.m. and joins a group bible study, waiting nearly an hour before standing up and firing at everyone. Nine church goers were killed, one of those nine being a church pastor and South Carolina senator, Clementa Pinckney (Shapiro, ABC News). Through the help of security cameras posted in front of the church, Dylann Roof, 21, was identified as the shooter. The next Thursday morning, Roof was apprehended at a traffic stop after a business contacted the police with a possible sighting of the killer (Shapiro, ABC News).…
A coroner says a .38-caliber pistol was recovered where a Delta State University teacher died from a single gunshot to the head after he is suspected of killing a colleague and his ex-girlfriend. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said Tuesday that Shannon Lamb killed himself about a mile south of his parents' house on the northern outskirts of Greenville. Johnson says Lamb died in the wooded backyard of a home where he knew the residents, after abandoning his still running car. She says Lamb's body is being taken to the state crime lab in Pearl for autopsy. A .38-caliber handgun was also used in the fatal shooting of Lamb's colleague Ethan Schmidt.…
The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and was not part of a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy; I disagree with this claim. After careful evaluation of all the evidence presented in the case, I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted as part of a conspiracy to assassinate the president. Analysis of the potential motives of different groups, direct/testimonial evidence, physical/forensic evidence, and circumstantial evidence found at Dealey Plaza shows that there is a real possibility that the assassination of President Kennedy was not carried out by a single man. Testimonial evidence, in addition to a few conceivable motives to kill the president, support the idea that Kennedy’s murder on November twenty-second,…
Most people who use social media have heard of the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Those who haven’t heard of this topic will most likely hear about it if they turn the news on for more than 10 minutes. There has been much debate on who aggressed who to cause the shooting. Some people believe that the officer overreacted and shot the kid, while others believe the eighteen year old tried to take the gun. Testimonies and reports given by families, friends, and witnesses go both ways on this topic.…
On September 11th two hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center in New York City killed about 2,752 people. The other plane crashed into the Pentagon and killed 189 people. This was said to be the largest attack on U.S. since Pearl Harbor. There were about 19 hijackers and it was said that they were from Saudi Arabia and were members of Al-Queda, which was led by Osama Bin Laden. This tragic event brought a lot of attention across America.…
The Denver Airport People think that Nazi runaways are hiding in the Denver airport. A train goes under the airport probably for their transportation and planes are always in and out. They also have six runways, a reason people think like that is because it’s shaped like a Nazi flag. The runways are like many new airports, it’s a central building complex surrounded by runways and connected to them with taxiways and this layout does allow for planes to arrive and depart from the runways a lot without plane movements overlapping.…
We as human beings must understand that men are not perfect and they make mistake as well and for that reason we must have an open mind about how the real world works. A sheriff well known as head commander of Umpqua Community college shooting; he shared a link and said that the people should keep open minded on his Facebook page. The October 2, 2015 website TheDailyDot.com by Dell Cameron stated “Sheriff John Hanlin posted a YouTube video on his Facebook page that offered (debunked) theories about whether the U.S. government had staged the Sandy Hook shooting.” John Hanlin does not believe gun law is the issue is the cause of mass shooting. The reason the U.S government has been pushing gun laws so much had given John Hanlin the belief that Sandy Hook was staged.…
The film Denial focuses on the legal battle between a professor, Deborah Lipstadt, and World War II historian, David Irving. The battle started when Professor Lipstadt included Mr. Irving in her book about Holocaust deniers. Mr. Irving then stands up and boldly accuses her of libel in front of the crowd. Irritated about the issue, he takes the issue to the level of legal action. Instead of accepting the plea deal, Professor Lipstadt decided to fight the accusations and prove that the holocaust actually happened.…
Within hours the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the armed carjacking of a sport-utility vehicle in Boston’s Allston neighbourhood spurred speculation about a possible connection between those crimes and the marathon bombing. Police pursued the stolen vehicle and Improvised explosive devices were thrown at the police, as many as 300 rounds were exchanged, and a police officer was shot and wounded watertown identified as one of the two suspects in the bombing, was seriously wounded by explosives and multiple gunshot .Tamerlan Tsarnaev was taken to a hospital and was pronounced dead. In the early morning hours a resident whose house was several blocks from the shoot-out went to his backyard to check on the boat that was parked there. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in the boat Police soon arrived, and after a short standoff Tsarnaev was taken into custody.…
Current Event Suspect in On-Air Murder of Journalist and Cameraman Kills Himself! Today was a grim day. Journalist Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, from station WDBJ, were fatally shot this Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 6:45 am, in Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. The man in question was a former co-worker named Vester Lee Flanagan also known by his on-air name, Bryce Williams. There may have been a possible motive behind this chilling murder as he posted that “Alison made racist comments to me” and, “Adam went to human resources on me after working with me one time!”…
The article I looked at talk about the recent event that happened in Las Vegas. The article talk about the Las Vegas shooting. The article first focuses on the terrorist that shot the people at the event killing 59 people and injuring over 500. The terrorist Stephen Paddock did not raise any suspicious activity until the day of the shooting when he started firing at the people in the concert. The article talked about Paddocks personal life and how they found nothing that would give him a motive to kill all these people.…
The year of 2015 has been a year filled with high profile events. These events are almost always involved a mass shooting. A mass shooting can be defined as an incident involving multiple victims of gun violence. However, the FBI has no true definition of a mass shooting, it can be prepared to mass murders as killing 3 or more people in a short amount of time. Just in 2015 alone this definition fits almost an unlimited number of high profile cases.…
Alan Watts once said “A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold “murdered one teacher and twelve of their peers” (Senior) inside Columbine High School. The massacre would become the “most lethal” (Senior) in the nation. Almost immediately after the killings took place, the media arrived at Columbine High School. With media comes many myths.…