age six killed his sister Adriana of seventeen months. He was playing soldiers with a gun his father had in the the case of an emergency. Adriana was crawling on the floor when he unintentionally pulled the trigger and shooting her in the head. Guns are hazardous, we should not allow them on campus. When in danger an individual will not shoot what they are aiming at. The first time a young boy holds a gun in his hand ready to shoot a deer he will notice his hands shaking uncontrollably. He…
country made a proposal about gun control. If guns are made illegal there would be a huge decrease…
1) My first 3 thoughts are shock, anger, and compassion. I am shocked because a supposed friend of 10 years could do something so horrible like that with no hesitation. His friend shot him multiple times, beat him with the end of the shotgun, stole his belongings, and left him for dead. I just can’t wrap my mind around the idea you could do that to someone who trusted you and probably shared most of your life with during the good and bad times. I also feel anger because of the way how as a…
trained every year to ensure school safety, in the event of another school shooting (Trump, 2018). Not only this tweet but this entire issue has had the entire country up in arms. Some citizens want tighter gun laws, and other citizens want them to tighten the restrictions to the purchase of a gun. Donald Trump…
Guns-Not he Mentally Ill-Kill People Author: Abby Rapoport Abby Rapoport believes that, after decades of tragedies, shootings and loss of many lives, America is now thinking of stricter gun laws; however, the new proposals are targeting only people with mental illnesses. The article states that, these new proposal stigmatizing mentally ill people with gun violence are unjust; furthermore they are new stereotype. Profiling these people and confiscating their guns will result a greater danger,…
Lyons uses real life shootings, to connect on an emotional level. She starts the article telling a story of a very fatal day. “As students and faculty walked across the Ohio State University campus in Columbus on Nov. 28, third-year student Abdul Razak Ali Artan suddenly plowed his car onto a busy sidewalk, got out and lunged at bystanders with a butcher knife. In less than two minutes he had wounded 11 people before a university police officer arrived and fatally shot him.” (1) This excerpt…
Majority of students attending college are stressed about their academic workload and worrying about the safety of the school is another burden. According to the article, “There Were More Than Two Dozen Reported Shootings At College Campuses In 2013” by Tyler Kingkade states that in the year 2013 there has been at least 27 college campus shootings. There was a total of 18 students killed and many others injured (Kingkade). These college shootings create fear to students to walk on the campus…
starkly underline the ridiculousness and tragedy of gun law in the United States, then it is hard to see what it could be. At the Last Stop outdoor firing range in the Mohave desert, outside Las Vegas, a slightly-built, nine-year old girl was being taught to fire a lethal automatic weapon, in the form of an Uzi sub-machine gun. Her unfortunate firearms instructor died, after he was shot was shot in the head, because the recoil on the powerful gun was too strong for her weak wrists, and it…
No Guns on Campus For this essay, I will be discussing the merits of allowing teachers to possess hand guns on school campuses around the nation. Recently, in response to school shootings, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has recommended that teachers be allowed to carry hand guns on school premises as a deterrent for school shootings. In this paper, I will provide research, statistics and expert testimony that will counter this claim and support my claim that teachers should not be allowed…
“I didn't go into teaching thinking about carrying a gun. But when i see incosent kids and teachers getting shot that made me think differently about wanting to sit in a class and wait for my death.” -from salty lake ohio teacher. When you hear of kids getting killed by some crazy person you try to think of a solution or a idea that will help. Many experts have came to a big solution and that is teachers carrying guns. Why multiple people think its a good idea is because it could stop the…