High School Shooting Speech

In America, we seem to be facing too many shootings. Too many tragedies, one after another: the Chardon High School Shooting, the Oikos University Shooting, the Aurora Shooting, and now the Sandy Hooks Elementary Shooting. Although the President’s memorial speeches have seemed to become somewhat of a routine, his speech following the tragedy in Newtown has proven itself as a great speech of our time: and I’m examining why. Despite these atrocious acts in which innocent lives were abruptly taken from us, the newest shooting is still fresh in our minds. To set the scene in Newtown, here is a basic run-down of the events that unfolded: Twenty year old Adam Lanza killed, Nancy Lanza, his mother who did volunteer work at schools including Sandy Hook, and later went to Sandy Hooks Elementary & gunned down 20 people. Out of the twenty victims, fourteen were children. It wasn’t long after the tragedy that Barack Obama, president of the United States of America, had …show more content…
He struggled to hold back tears. The usually well prepared orator now had to constantly look down at his notes. Barack Obama used quotes from Bible scriptures and a sort of testimonial of Jesus himself. "Let the little children come to me," Obama quotes Jesus’ words, "and do not hinder them — for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." The allusions to the Bible scriptures are consoling to American Christians suffering due to the tragedy. The comfort of the children being in the Son’s very kingdom soothes the mind. Obama declared that “this job of keeping our children safe, and teaching them well, is something we can only do together, with the help of friends and neighbors, the help of a community, and the help of a nation.” Barack Obama invokes a sense of community and patriotism with terms such as “together” and “help of a nation.” Additionally, our president had quite a few questions to ask the audience such