Youth Revive Trap Shooting The Trap Sho Trap shooting has changed tremendously since the 1800’s, from shooting live birds, to shooting fluorescent clay targets. The sport has grown so much since the beginning, but even more within the last ten years because of the youth that have changed it from a hobby to the fastest growing sport in the USA. According to USA Shooting, also known as the USA Olympic team, trap shooting began around the year 1825 with real pigeons and sparrows that were in…
On December, 2012 something happened that no one wishes would happen, at 9:30 am in Newtown, Connecticut there was a shooting.This shooting happened at an elementary school, possible the worst place for it to happen. There was a total of twenty-six deaths, twenty of them were little kids ages six to seven, the rest of them were adults. The first police officer arrived in two minutes and forty-one seconds after a nine one one call was made…
¨In the last three years, there has been approximately two hundred recorded school shootings in America.¨ Hundreds of innocent lives were taken, within those years. We all always ask that one question, why? Why has this happened to our country. It is slowly becoming a problem in our society, that needs to be taken charge of. According to CNN, “School shootings are far more frequent in America than in other countries.” Therefore, we must figure out who is capable of carrying out this action,…
possibly could go wrong, went wrong during the year 2016. It was a big year historically as America has never suffered a mass tragedy in a hometown like this before. In the early hours of June 12, 2016, the deadliest mass shooting in American history happened in Orlando, Florida. Hundreds of stories and questions emerged just hours after the shooting. The shooter, the victims, and the line of events have all passed, but leave behind a tremendous story in history. Born in 1986, Omar Mir…
On April 17, 2007, a horrific incident occurred at Virginia Tech. It all began when a call was made early in the morning about a shooting incident that occurred in the dorm rooms. There were two students that were shoot and killed that morning. The first responders to the scene believed they had a suspect who happened to be the boyfriend of one of the deceased individuals found murdered. The campus police believed it to be an isolated incident which had ended as soon as it had begun. To their…
It’s been a couple day since the shooting had happened in Las Vegas as the most devastating attack and the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock rented a room in downtown Las Vegas through Airbnb at Mandalay Bay a couple days earlier before the Concert. Marilou Danley (the girlfriend) said that she was worried that her boyfriend, Stephen Paddock, was going to break up with her when he bought her a cheap ticket to the Philippines about two weeks…
Imagine a normal day, you are a New York City police officer. You are protecting the city that you love and trying to provide for your wife, your son in college and his 13 year old brother. You go to work like any other normal day and get to the station to meet up with your partner and begin your shift. Your day is seemingly normal and you and your partner decide to stop and observe a part of high crime neighborhood before your shift ended. You are sitting with your partner and unaware of the…
security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” In spite of their great wisdom, the framers never knew how their world would change once they were laid to rest. In a world where military grade guns fired three rounds a minute, the right to bear arms was seemingly inherent to American greatness. Now, military grade guns can fire 725 rounds a minute and guns are now fear inducers, not protectors. It is very tempting to support the supposedly…
Umpqua Community College shooting On October 1st, 2015, a 26 year old student, Christopher Harper-Mercer, fatally shot nine people and injured nine others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Students reported that the shooting was in his English and writing classroom, where instead of bringing his books to class that day, he brought his firearm. One survivor, Tracy Heu, stated to CNN news that “he came in and shot towards the back of the wall while telling everybody to go to the…
Plaza Oswald Fired three shots at the presidential motorcade injuring both President Kennedy and Governor John Connally. This paper is going to be about the assassination of JFK, and if Oswald killed jfk or not. because oswald was not identified as the man in the window. and Oswald was being impersonated at the time and may be even framed for the murderer. Because oswald was on the second floor at the time the gunfire began. After the long months of investigations on the shooting, the warren…