Three Days Before the Shooting

over the past few years, the safety of moviegoers is a growing concern. Since the Aurora, Colorado shooting, there have been two other major incidents at theaters in the United States. During the 7:30 p.m. showing of “Trainwreck” on Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 at the Grand Theatre 16 in Lafayette, Louisiana, a gunman stood up and turned this comedy movie…

festivals both national and international and has been already numbered among the most genuine examples of feature-length ethno filmmaking in Indian Cinema. The film Thithi, is about the death of a 101-year-old patriarch called Century Gowda and how three generations of his family react to his death. The opening sequence of the film begins with death of Century Gowda and the sequence that follows is perhaps the film’s most enigmatic with introduction of Gadappa, this character lives with…

concentrating while shooting his free throws because of the audience noise during his shots. This noise was causing poor Tommy to miss his free throws and consequently lose his self-confidence. Afterwards, his performance would then decline the rest of the game and he would then ride the bench. I have developed a mental training program that involves using imagery to work on Tommy’s concentration and ways to boost his…

events that have filled our televisions and newspapers far too often. Archbishop Alexander K. Sample released a letter after the Umpqua Community College shooting stating, "Sadly, we live in the midst of culture that does not value the dignity and sacredness of every human life as it once did." (qtd. in Another Mass Shooting). School shootings constantly seem to be in the headlines in the United States causing many to question if schools should really be a gun free zone, should teachers be able…

alike have very different viewpoints on how this issue should be dealt with, and this disagreement is causing a hindrance to actually solving the problem at hand. The number of mass shooting in the United States is increasing at an alarming rate. There have been more mass shootings since 2005 than the past 23 years before that. This is for multiple reasons. Guns are readily available to whomever wants to buy them. So long as…

Gun Control After the Newtown, Connecticut shooting that occurred on December 14, 2012, gun control laws came in the crossfire and gun sales skyrocketed. Several people and family victims of the shooting went full force against guns after the shooting and blame the guns for the deaths on that dark, grim day. What people neglect to understand though is that guns are not alive. They have no living pulse and cannot move under their own power. Therefore, as proven in an independent study…

December 1st 2015, there have been 335 days in the year and 351 mass shootings in the United States, just in 2015 alone (Ingraham). Trying to find the actual amount of Americans killed in mass shootings is tricky, because “Mass Shooting Tracker” defines a mass shooting as “four or more people are shot in a spree setting, likely without a cooling off period”, which is different than the FBI’s definition (“Mass Shooting Tracker”). According to the Mass Shooting Tracker, if using the FBI’s…

This sentiment resonates true with Karl Marx, as Collins states that in Marx’s time, “contradiction existed in the material system… which would eventually bring about the system’s downfall and the ushering of a new stage” (1994:52). In the present day, gun control is highly debated and is a controversial topic that relates to the Conflict Theory due to the constant disagreements between people. More gun problems have risen due to the…

violation. Riley was driving a different car than what was registered to him and he was driving around on suspended license registration tags. Also Riley was driving around on a suspended license. Following procedure, the car must be impounded, but before its impounded the car is allowed to be searched for an inventory search. During the inventory search, police found two guns, which led to Riley being arrested on possession of firearms. Law enforcement had already been watching Riley, thinking…

On February 28, 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms launched a raid on the Davidian Compound just outside of Waco, Texas, not knowing that it would lead to a 51 day standoff, the compound burning to the ground, and the loss of many lives, including 4 ATF agents – but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Lets look a little closer and dig a little deeper into the events leading up to this terrible tragedy. The Branch Davidians were a cult led by David Koresh, a man claiming to be the…