Lyons uses real life shootings, to connect on an emotional level. She starts the article telling a story of a very fatal day. “As students and faculty walked across the Ohio State University campus in Columbus on Nov. 28, third-year student Abdul Razak Ali Artan suddenly plowed his car onto a busy sidewalk, got out and lunged at bystanders with a butcher knife. In less than two minutes he had wounded 11 people before a university police officer arrived and fatally shot him.” (1) This excerpt targets an emotional response of many, because the connections that so many of us have to school campuses. Lyon than displays the action that was taken, the Ohio Senate passed a bill to allow all teachers to be able to have a concealed weapon on campus
