School Shooting Assignment

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The last assignment is to find a “current event” article and write a 500-word essay on why the event is an example of man exercising his autonomy (the text’s definition of sin).

The most current event I chose to discuss is the school shooting that happened this past week Friday May 18,2018 in Santa Fe, Texas. It’s unfortunate that we live in a time where we must question the safety of our children before sending them to school every day, not to mention the safety precaution measures of gun control even being took seriously as it pertains to congress; my heart goes out to the families that have lost loved ones during this tragic event. According the headline Group Democracy Now, the shooter by the name of Dimitrios Pagourtzis was a 17-year-old boy who was a student at Santa Fe High School, he was a troubled teen mentally and or emotionally no one seemed to know the teen to be violent, however one
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The article also describes in detail what the boy was wearing during the shooting which, was a trench coat that he decorated with many satanic symbols along with a shirt he posted on social media the night before that said, “Born to Kill.” According to the text “The Drama of Scripture” Bartholomew and Goheen describes sin as the turning point of

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