In “shootings”, Adam Gopnik speaks about a shooting that took place in Virginia Tech Engineering building, and how the parents of the victims were told that it was not the right moment to ask questions. Gopnik also gives his points of view on how the shooting could have been avoided. Gopnik suggests that the main reason why these types of incidents keep happening in the United States is because there is a lack of security and requirements on who should not be able to buy a gun. The government should do what others countries are doing, and Gopnik’s example, is the massacre that happened in Paris Suborn of Nanterre in 2002, when a man killed eight people at a municipal meeting. Gun control became a key issue in the presidential…
Dear’s shooting spree resulted in the death of three people while nine others were wounded. The suspect has been charged with 179 counts, which includes first-degree murder and attempted murder.…
This case involves the suspects attempting to murder the victims by shooting at them from a loaded firearm during a drive-by shooting. One victim sustained a non-life threatening gunshot wound.…
On October 05, 2015 an article was published by Jason Kravarik and Sara Sidner called “Oregon College Shooting Survivor pretended to be dead during rampage”. This article describe how the victim survived the massacre that occurred at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Tracy Heu attended her writing class as usual; however, on a Thursday afternoon a 26 year old man name Chris Harper- Mercer had came into her class an open fire, killed a total of nine people. " Taking a bullet in her hand and suffering two broken bones, Heu lay on the ground covered in the blood from a student next to her who have been shot in the head." By covering up with blood Heu was able to avoided the shooter and survived.…
In the paragraph about the las vegas shooting the hero is a man named Jonathan Smith. Jonathan was just going to the festival with is brother and his brothers kids. They first thought the gun fire was fireworks but when they realized they were they quickly rushed out but his nieces quickly separated in the crowd. jonathan saw people run and screaming so help them telling ¨run active shooter¨.he was shot after a while a was rushed to the hospital for treatment. He was able to live the bulitte the shot him may stay in side his body for every.…
New year’s day 2015, Valanesha Washington was sitting in her bedroom not knowing that will be the last place she be seen alive, was killed in a drive by shooting in her own home. She was taken to OU medical center where she later died she was only 19 years old. Two days’ later police got a tip on the shooting, 18-year-old Daryan Jones was responsible for the shooting that cause Valanesha’s death. Daryan Jones was charged with first degree murder and can serve up to 20 years to life in prison. In the past year rapes and murders has reached its high while other crimes have decreased, people of Oklahoma City fear for their life knowing that they can be the next victims.…
“Greg Mortland, fifty-three, was arrested for the murder of his son-in-law early this morning,” the news reporter droned on. “Sources tell us while his daughter came to visit, the suspect had an argument with the deceased, who was shot several times.”…
(Bronx, 245) “The similarities amongst the cases were hard to ignore. Not only had all the victims been young women or couples in the outer boroughs, but the weapon used in every attack was a .44 caliber charter arms revolver”. (Bronx, 247) The gun on the other hand proved to be no use on identifying the subject. Out of the 28,000 .44 caliber revolvers produced, 667 accounts of this item were reported stolen. (Bronx, 249) Apparently frustrated with the lack of progress in the summer of 1977 the “Son of Sam” proceeded to taunt both the papers and the police departments, claiming that he “can’t stop killing”, and “Sam’s a thirsty lad and he won’t let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood”. (Bronx, 254) Citizens didn’t primarily help either. Women were calling into service hotlines naming husbands, ex-husbands, and boyfriends as suspects. As each day passed without an arrest, Mayor Abe Beame's reelection chances grew slimmer and slimmer as opponents such as Abzug, Cuomo and the eventual winner, Ed Koch, pressured him for failing to keep the city safe. “Like the tidal wave of looting and arson that accompanied the blackout, the .44 caliber killer hysteria had altered New Yorkers…
On January 8, 2011 U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot along with eighteen other people at a public meeting in a grocery store parking lot near Tucson Arizona. Six of the eighteen people shot that day died. This included Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll and nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green. Gifford was Holding a meeting called "Congress on Your Corner" in a Safeway store when she was shot through the head at point blank range. 22-year old Jared Loughner, a tucson man, was arrested at the scene. Federal prosecutors filed five charges against him, including the attempted assassination of a member of Congress and the assassination of a federal judge. Even though Loughner had a history of drug possession charges and had been suspended by his college for disruptive behavior, the motive for the shooting remains unclear. Invoking his right to remain silent , Loughner did not cooperate with authorities. Jared was found to be Incompetent to stand trial based on medical evaluations by a judge.…
Two men that decide they want to take people’s lives into their own hands, can change the way American citizens live their everyday lives. This exact situation happened over a twenty-three day period, when John Muhammad and John Malvo went on a shooting spree in Washington D.C. John Allen Muhammad, a forty-one year old veteran expert marksman of the Persian Gulf War, was the main culprit of the crime. He was accompanied by John Lee Malvo, a seventeen year old Jamaican citizen. These two men killed ten people and wounded three others.…
On January 30, 1977, a couple parked their car on Forest Hills Street when suddenly an individual approached and the car and opened fire killing Christine Freund. Two months later, in March, a half a block away from the third incident Virginia Voskerichian was walking down the street when an individual shot her to death. All four incidents were interrelated, the victims were young women and the same .44 caliber gun was used for all the shootings.…
Klyne was one of seven people wounded that day in the high school. Janvier and teacher Adam Wood were killed.…
A man named Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 of his fellow students and teachers on top of that he wounded 17 others in two separate attacks. Another 6 people were injured escaping from classroom windows. This massacre is the deadliest shooting attack by a single gunman in U.S. history.…
Today when you watch or read the news you will see some story about a shooting. You…
There was recently another shooting in the news on May 1. In San Diego in what was previously known as a quiet neighborhood of apartment complexes filled…