Three Days Before the Shooting

notes that no weapon was ever found. The defence also states that the teenagers left the gas station and returned shortly after before calling the police. This would have given them time to hide or get rid of any weapons in their vehicle. However, Thompson states that they left and returned back to the gas station but did not mention disposing weapons. After the shooting, Dunn and his girlfriend drove 40 miles south to St. Augustine, where they had reservations at a bed and breakfast. When they…

Existentialism in the Face of Mass Shootings: The Balance Between Free Will and Human Life Free will equips humans with the right to act however they choose. Existentialism is a philosophical discipline that encourages humans to use this free will to affect their own development in a meaningful way. Although the United States has previously been lauded for its promotion of independence and self-determination, many are beginning to question why one person’s freedom to bear arms should…

COLUMBINE MASSACRE: A DAY TO REMEMBER In the earlier days, schools were the safest places for students. Students were safer than they were at their homes because they were constantly being monitored by the school staffs and other fellow students. Today, school shootings are becoming a huge problem in America. It has become more common for students to express their anger with the intention of hurting or killing innocent classmates. On April 20, 1999 one of the most horrific school shooting…

threat. Now in a recent mass shooting, Orlando, police took over three hours to get inside the nightclub and kill Omar Mateen. If an experienced gun owner had been carrying a gun inside of the nightclub he could have stopped the shooter but instead 50 people died before the shooter was stopped. People are dying but gun control laws are not going to stop that but make this happen more frequently instead. Gun control is a term used to describe…

reignition of the gun law debate. The annual Route 91 Harvest Music Festival was booming with cheers and laughter from the country-loving crowd of approximately 22,000 people. Jason Aldean was performing the closing song on the final night of the three day festival and gleeful cheers were erupting from the crowd as they heard what they supposed were fireworks to close off the night. That merriment and hysteria converted almost instantly into petrified wails when individuals began to witness…

Things took a drastic turn for the worse at approximately 11:19am. That 's when the first shot was fired. The shooting ended 188 shots later, killing thirteen people (plus the perpetrators) and injuring twenty-three more. About forty-five minutes pass between the first shot and the last shot that is made by the…

On April 20, 1999, two gunmen walked into Columbine high school in Littleton Colorado, and open fired. The gunmen Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, killed thirteen people that day (Springhall 1999). The shooters had trench coats, and ski masks, further, they walked into that school “armed with a semi-automatic carbine rifle, two-sawed off shotguns, a semi-automatic assault pistol, and dozens homemade bombs” (Springhall 1999:622). Students fled the school, and the gunmen entered the library…

The most recent school shooting, committed by a 19 year old. This is just one of the many mass shootings that have occurred in America, yet, nothing ever changes. It is easy to forget how often this actually has happened. Since 1982, there have been 97 mass shootings in public places across the country. These killings unfold in 34 states, and 58 of these shootings have occurred since 2006. Seven of them took place in 2012 alone. For example,…

about creating the new show for years."We had started back in 2008 trying to get this happening and it didn't come together and there wasn't anybody interested in any serious way, which was baffling to me because it's so hard to launch a show these days that any leg up you can get is crucial” (Nededog 1). John Stamos signed up to be the executive producer, and cast originals Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber all agreed to be a part of the project. Hiring the cast was very…

United States aren’t very strong, which makes it extremely easy to get your hands on one. Just across the border in Canada, the laws for purchasing a gun require certain paperwork that would not be needed in the United States. Being involved in a shooting, either directly or indirectly, has life-long, negative consequences. Making gun laws stricter and certain guns illegal will decrease the death rate dramatically. Guns are deadly weapons and their sole purpose is for killing; the…