Sandy Hook

day after day, and do little about it. Because, like the cow, we have grown to accept it. The mere amount of attention we've allotted to the most recent school shooting compared to how much attention the heart wrenching shooting that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary received is an indicator of just how common the shootings have become and how we are growing less surprised every time someone decides to shoot up a school. As a whole, we are becoming accustomed to the idea that every so often a…

Every day millions of people sin. In the Divine Comedy Dante travels through nine circles of Hell, observing punishments caused by different sins. The more severe the sin that is committed, the more severe the punishment is endured. Throughout history famous figures, people in literature, and current celebrities, have committed these nine different types of sin. I will be placing these wrong doers in the different circles of Hell discussed in the story. Circle zero, otherwise known as Vestibule,…

Typically Democrats have favored and created these restrictive laws while Republicans stand by the free right of citizens to bear arms with no limits. Gun control has become a major political topic especially concerning the issues of Columbine(1999), Sandy Hook(2012), and the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado(2012). As shown by an article published by CNN News called 25 Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. History Fast Facts...in just these three killings 52 people were killed and each of…

11 million guns were produced in the U.S. in 2013, which just so happens to be the year after the Sandy Hook massacre. That 's more than twice as many as the 5.4 million firearms produced in 2010. (Dent, 2016) In 2014 there was a shooting close to home, in Darby, Pennsylvania where someone carrying a firearm was credited a hero and saved many lives due to the fact that he was legally carrying a firearm. Honestly, there is a lot of propaganda about gun control. So much so that the truth has…

most well known of all shootings in gun-free. In 2008, five people were killed and several more were injured at Northern Illinois University after a shooter entered the school, a posted gun-free zone, and also in December 2012 with the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut that ended in the murder of twenty-eight people and the hospitalization of two more.(Lott, Newtown…2012) Slapping a label on a building doesn’t stop someone from breaking a law. Studies have shown…

The second amendment states that, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed” (“Gun Control Overview” 3). I believe that the government has to follow what is already stipulated, but in this case, the nation and the citizens are being affected by this dangerous attacks. Additionally, the citizens have to understand that there’s people out with serious problems such as, mental illness, chronic…

Crimes and guns seem to go together like cheese, and crackers. In America there is a law called the 2nd amendment that states: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." This allow any American the right to bear arms to help protect themselves, but do they ever wonder why, why, why? Where as in the United Kingdom after the 1997 Dunblane massacre the UK made it illegal to obtain a gun without…

Shooting for Masculine Protection The rifle company Bushmaster wants you to “consider your man card reissued” as you get your hands on their manliness-boosting firearms. The advertisement features a lonely rifle depicted in front of a white background. It is clean and straight forward; this weapon will confirm your manliness. Between the lines of the poster is a sad story of gender norms that we still have to break. The reminiscence of the 1950’s nuclear family and the man as a provider and…

Cooke focuses his argument on the Sandy Hook shooting, a delicate topic for many. Cooke does not target the emotions of people as his emotion comes in the facts about the killings. On the contrary, Gopnik uses emotions as a childish attempt to guilt the reader into siding with him, first seen…

Barack Hussein Obama II , he was born on August 4 1962 in Honolulu oahu Hawaii . Obama Jr didn’t grow up with his father being around to much because of what his father was doing , He would run back and forth from work and school . Obama ‘s father officially came back in his life when he was two years old. By the time Obama was 10 years old he was sent to Hawaii to be with his grandparents as his mother finished school. While living with his grandparents, he was enrolled in school where he…