Sandy Hook

In the case of Sandy Hook Elementary, many have suggested that having armed guards at schools to control gun violence would be a start in the right direction in curbing gun violence in schools. This is considered a temporary solution until stricter laws are developed and…

protect students, shouldn’t teachers carry a gun or at least be in access to a gun. No one ever knows when a shooting is about to begin. School teachers carrying guns in class to protect everyone, which is what the whole speech is about. Sandy Hook Elementary School is just one of the many schools that have experienced a school shooting. Twenty students and six adults were killed because one evil man decided he was going to go inside the school and take innocent lives. But what if the…

Paul Bloom, in the article “The Baby In The Well: The Case Against Empathy,” argues that the human emotion, empathy, causes our world more harm than it does good and that humans should use reason in place of it. Bloom supports his claims by contrasting between a counter argument and examples that back up his view on empathy. The author’s purpose is to inform people about how empathy can blow situations out of proportion in order to try and make them believe that reason is much more useful in…

The safety of the public is not in the hands of the gun itself, but in those intentionally misusing them. Over the last decade, crime has been on the rise thanks to increase in drug trade and the lack of regulations on the gun owners themselves. Many believe that if we stop giving the public, as a whole, the option to purchase firearms that gun violence will decrease over time. Taking guns away from our citizens is not the answer.Gun control does not deter crime: gun ownership deters crime. A…

Imagine you’re back in high school. It’s time for lunch and everyone starts to gather in the cafeteria. You’re talking with your friends and having a good time. Suddenly you hear gunshots. Everyone around you starts screaming; people start to panic. Teachers are rushing kids to safety, and some are calling 911. You hear more gunshots, but this time they are much closer. You and your classmates start to flip over tables for cover; others run and hide in the kitchen. You hear one final gunshot.…

Imagine, one of your rights being taken away from you, or being restricted. That’s happening right now. Gun control is being inflicted after the Oregon shooting in a community college. In 2011 a gun was used in 323 murders, that same year a hammer was used in 496 murders (Hawkins). Clearly a household item is just as dangerous as a gun, especially when it’s in the hands of someone who desires to do wrong. Most people don’t understand that you don’t blame the tool that is used, you blame the…

Guns have the potential to lead to serious injury and even death. As children, most everyone is taught to be cautious with and generally stay clear from them. The perceived danger and apparent threat of firearms leads people to believe that guns have no place in today’s society. This panic over guns leads to the proposition of policies of controlling, banning, and even taking guns from the people. It is debatable whether or not these policies could help prevent the threat of guns becoming…

When thinking about guns, the next word that automatically pops into my head, is crime. Crime and guns seem to go hand in hand and there is a strong association between the two. Changing the gun laws in the United States is a simple directive to combat the dangerous crimes in which guns are misused. Guns are powerful weapons. They can be used to defend and protect, but also be used to cause harm, destruction, and death, by those who abuse the right to use them. So why is it that gun control…

so happy I can tell that Stew Cat was really happy to. Days had passed and I was sleeping just on the sandy beach. I started to get really hungry and if I could just find the reef I knew that he had left an old fishing line and some rusty old hooks to. The journey began early in the morning because I really didn’t want to catch the hot sun in the afternoon. I began by walking around the sandy beach and feeling the rocks with my hand’s. I looked all afternoon for the reef then out of the…

Kristin Armstrong Idaho. The City of Boise, Idaho, renamed one of the city’s oldest and most popular parks after 43-year-old mother and full-time career woman Kristin Armstrong, who recently won her third-straight gold medal in the women’s cycling individual time trials at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. After overcoming a diagnosis of osteoarthritis in 2001, Kristin is now the most decorated female cyclist in U.S. history and a leader in her community. The Kristin Armstrong…