Three Days Before the Shooting

Three hundred eighty-five is the number of people killed in a mass shooting in 2016 according to the Gun Violence Archive which reflects the number of incidents reported and verified. Seven in a college town, five in an airport, and 49 in a nightclub the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. While the death tolls, places and memorial photos change there is one common characteristic; the weapon chosen. Though to be clear it is difficult to define what is considered a mass shooting and the…

December 6, 2016 is a day that I’ll not forget anytime soon. I have never felt such a genuine energy and calmness at the same time. But the story really began four years before that in an airplane. I was nine years old on my way to America, and I was looking at a page of American sports. I held the page up to my parents, and I asked the question,”Which one of these is basketball?” because, in Ethiopia, I had never even seen a basketball. I remember the first time I tried shooting hoops at a…

In recent years there has been an uprising against police violence and shootings in various communities in the United States. Many of these communities are determined to make a change and are standing firm in the fight against injustice. Things were no different in Cleveland, Ohio in 2014. Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice, a residence of Cleveland, lived with his mother and siblings on the west side of the city. November 23, 2014 was a rather normal Sunday for Tamir. He was playing at a local park…

Although regional differences are not as distinct these days, many issues are currently causing division among the states and people of our country. These issues lead to what our history class describes as “modern sectionalism.” One such issue is Whether teaches or staff members of a school should be armed with guns. In my article the author says that the school…

Universities as of June 2015. There have been several school shootings that have taken place all around the United States. The two that stand out the most according to the news are Virginia Tech and Lonestar College. The headlines in 2013 were 3 wounded and 2 detained. This was regarding the shooting that took place at Lonestar College in Houston, Texas on January 22, 2103. “The Houston shooting comes roughly a month after the deadly shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school that…

officer’s gun on a summer evening last year” (Ezell Ford’s shooting violated LAPD policy, police commission rules, www.latimes.com). After the shooting, the angry response and call to action from the public sparked a thorough investigation of the shooting. Following other issues similar to this shooting in the United States, all police departments have been urged to seriously investigate all cases involving an officer/pedestrian shootings. After thorough investigation and a lot of debate between…

school shooting in American history”, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Two high school students were to blame for this tragedy. Abc News reported that the shooters “slaughtered 12 students” and left others critically wounded with serious life threatening injures. School shooting in recent years have unfortunately become a prevalent issue in our society, they happen so often that high schools across the nation have each implemented some sort of emergency evacuation plan, if a shooting…

actually doing the experiment and hitting the shots. Literature Review The article, “How to Improve Free Throw Shooting,” mentioned that you need to have repetition, form, and routine (Kelbick, 2006). According to experts…

schools? May would say of course, to protect the students from active shooters, but do they really protect them? Some would say yes and others would say no. First, there is a big debate about gun control in our country right now because of the mass shootings and the murders. Gun fights have been happening in a lot of places, such as parking lots and schools. Many people feel we should have guns in schools, but they are not seeing the whole picture. If we put armed teachers or policemen in…

In Harris’ case, he fully embraced the labels set upon him, including troublemaker and outsider. From a medical view, Harris was also labeled depressed and angry. Harris became his own self-fulfilling prophesy, and lived up to every label until the day he died in the Columbine…