Three Days Before the Shooting

Penn High school golf championship was just one hour away. I've made it to the Mid Penn Championship three times now, the last two years, I was unable to shoot the score needed to get me into the District three championships. This was my last year and I had to make the most of it to show myself and others that I can go somewhere with this sport. I've only played four years of competitive golf. Before Golf, I was a travel hockey player who spent much of his time practicing at the rink and on the…

planned the shooting in San Bernardino, California. They had gone to the shooting range days before they performed the planned shooting. During the shooting they gunned down fourteen people in the building. The survivors said that they only saw one gunman that was Syed Rizwan Farook his wife Tashfeen Malik was probably in the car waiting for him to get back. A FBI officer said that they had been radicalized for some time. They were from Pakistan so they could have been radicalized long before…

guns in the U.S, one in three Americans own one of these guns for their own use. Just like owning a gun one in three Americans have some sort of police record. As shown in figure 1, the United States has a large variety of gun owners, especially in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming which 50% of their civilians own a firearm. Figure 1 Facts in Numbers Gun violence has killed over 13,399 people in the year 2015, that’s over 3…

setting up electronic equipment. Prior to shooting the four teenagers at a New York City subway in 1984, Goetz had been mugged before by three African-American men at a New York City subway also in 1981. With these incidents, he became known as the "subway vigilante." He, then came to an understanding to begin carrying a gun after being disappointed of the three men with the punishment they had received. Although, having eyewitnesses when the second shooting happened, Goetz is not guilty…

Columbine. Some used to remember this as normal place to go to school. Now it’s remembered as the chain reaction of school shootings. Many students here weren't born before this terrible incident on April 20, 1999. It was a normal day at Columbine High School in Colorado when two bullied students decided they’d had enough, and went to shoot up the school. The the two students made a tape describing how they hated the bullies at their school and wanted revenge. Their names were Eric Harris and…

He killed three teenagers, injured three more teenagers and surrendered the same day of the shooting. He is one of the many male school shooters in history but what sets him aside from the rest was his lack of remorse and motive for the shooting. When he entered the courtroom, he removed his dress shirt to reveal a handwritten t-shirt that said “Killer” scrawled across the front…

The number of school shootings are increasing everyday. Now, it’s estimated that at least on school shooting will take place every week. New York Times posted a statement stating, “In an analysis of 235 mass killings, many of which were carried out with firearms, 22 percent of the perpetrators could be considered mentally ill.” (Bank, Justin) Mental health does play a major role inn shooting because of the lack of realizing the health issues and gun control. For mental health issues, they’ve…

Before the shootings occurred, Justin Bourque was working 15 hour days, at a job he didn’t enjoy, and had already been fired from a job two years prior to the shooting incident, and thus had a weak bond towards his job, and work in general (Bissett, 2014). In addition, he despised being home schooled as a child (Bissett, 2014). In December…

are actually jumping higher and farther. The NBA playing style has changed in many ways. One reason is that point guards are playing different than they used to, and they are becoming the center point of offenses. Also, the NBA has thrived on shooting three pointers. There even is talk about adding a four point line. Today, big men play different and are less physical than they used to play. Finally, the NBA free agency has changed in player motives. The way the point guard plays has changed…

“School shooting” is a headline on the news that is unfortunately very common to see today. There have been hundreds of shootings in the United States throughout the year and they have been studied to see their similarities. Many people believe that the shooters are alike, yet others disagree and believe that the shootings are just random. School shootings could be better addressed and prevented if authorities understood that these shooters share a similar set a similar set of traits like…