Three Days Before the Shooting

motives and experiences. One hundred forty seven school shootings have taken place since the Sandy Hook attack where one boy shot twenty-seven people to death in an elementary school. 270 school shootings since the 1999 Columbine attack when two boys shot thirteen people in school. It is still a mystery as to how shooters keep sneaking under the nose of the public. School shootings, like Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook happen for three significant reasons: hidden mental issues,…

Did you know that 116,255 people are shot in the U.S. every year from attacks or suicide? 35,141 people die and 81,114 are injured. Through the examples of school shootings, mass shootings, and outdated laws, a reader will see that guns MUST be outlawed in the U.S. School shootings are one main reason that gun laws need to change. On Wednesday, February 14th at 2:21 PM Nikolas Kruz took out is AR-15 and open fired on high school students in Parkland, Florida. He killed 17 people. These were…

My First Thanksgiving I am Waheen. My tribe is the Wampanoap tribe that lives by the ocean, and surrounded by forest. I am twenty years old and I have three young children. All of them are sons, and they are very active. Over a season ago, some White people settled down the river from our village. This morning, we heard many of the guns that these settlers carry go off over and over. It made the children cry and scared us all. Our chief gathered 90 warriors and some of us women to cook…

the free throw hoop shoot for ages 8-9 is...Amaya Hamilton!” Hearing the president of the Elks hoop shoot call my name for first place in the regionals was very surprising. This means that I am going to state for the free throw shooting competition in Midland, Michigan. Before making it to the regionals, I got first place at districts. What made the experience even better is that my brother, Elijah, made it to state along with me for his age group. After a long car ride to Midland, we finally…

1976, again in Queens, Berkowitz shoots 16-year old Donna DeMasi and 18-year-old Joanne Lomino outside a movie theatre. Both survived but Lomino was the worse of the two, as she was paralyzed. (Murderpedia) Two months later Berkowitz continues his shootings of groups of two people at a time. On January 30, 1977, 26-year-olds Christine Freund and John Diel, engaged to be married, were fired on in a parked car. Diel lived but his fiancée’s injuries were too much for her to continue living.…

the back door as fast as he could. “Slow down I’m not in the mood for running” I yelled at him so he could hear me. “You’re going too slow” he yelled back excitedly as he was running to the shooting range almost tripping over…

Police Vs. People Many people died from police shooting. According to Killed by police website, in 2013 seven hundred sixty eight people died, in 2014 around one thousand one hundred eight, and in 2015 around one thousand fifty one until now (“Killed”). On the other hand, according to National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund website, around eighty-one the police died from people shooting last two years. However, there are many reasons for the shooting, and the police problems are…

Intro: For years the media has expressed that the root of extreme school shootings, violent stabbings, and brutal mass murder is violent media. However, violent media does not correlate with the violent crime rate or the murder rate. In fact, the FBI’s violent crime statistics have dropped by 50% from 1992 to 2011, and the murder rate decreased by 54% from the same years. Notice that violent video games have been around since the late eighties and have only been increasing in violent and…

If you need to shoot a video from high in the sky, a picker truck (or cherry picker) is probably your best option. However, this is not simple task and it requires a lot of careful planning before executing. Finding the Best Picker There are three different types of cherry picker lifts: non-powered, self-propelled, and vehicle mounted lifts. The first type have no means of propulsion and must be "pushed" into place, either via hand or by an appropriate moving vehicle. Self-propelled lifts are…

I graduated from TWU (Texas Woman’s University), where I worked in the housing department for three years. My positions ranged from office assistant all the way up till assistant director, so I know first-hand the steps of working in housing. At TWU when the university would accepted more student then there were housing, the housing department removed…