These are just a few examples of tragic mass shootings that have plagued the United States in recent years. But Why? Is it because the gun Laws in this country are too lax? And Guns are just too accessible? I say No‚ there is greater issue at hand than America’s gun laws thus‚ any amount gun control legislation will not stop the gun violence and we must vote against it. Too often gun control proposed as thee solution to stop all the tragic mass shootings. I disagree‚ infringing on the right of Americans
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Kaeprnick says he sat down during the national anthem because of the racism acts happening against the black community‚ as shown with all the recent cop shootings. I am not saying that some cops will not target blacks‚ nevertheless there are numerous respectful ways in which an individual could take a stand without causing countless other problems. No one should disrespect their country‚ no matter the reason. Accordingly‚ it does not help when groups of individuals run around destroying cities by
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Cashing in on tragedy is Politics 101. Following the Orlando nightclub shooting on June 12 by a disturbed Muslim man of Afghan origin that felled 49 gay men and women‚ conservative politicians in America generally loathe to acknowledging LGBTQ rights of any kind have hijacked the fatalities to nudge national talking points away from gun control and towards their favorite bogey‚ radical Islam. While reticent to specifically name the LGBTQ community as the target of a clear hate crime dressed up
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thrilled with the way our society behaves. We hate to turn on the news and see the way our youth act towards each other like who really wants to live in a world where this goes on every single day. The biggest problem that we have in society is school shootings. We bully each other until it gets to the point where we can’t take the bullying no more and start handling the situation ourselves and we will never know when it’s going to happen until it happens. And people wonder why does this happen to our youth
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than one mass shooting a day in the United States since the start of 2015. A majority of these shootings have occurred at schools. I never thought that my small school in rural South Dakota would become part of this statistic but on September 30th of this year it did. Though the media tends to pay close attention to the shooters‚ they seem to forget about how this violence affects us‚ the youth‚ and the schools that we attend. Sure‚ I had seen plenty of documentaries on school shootings‚ but they all
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Mass shootings We’re terribly sorry to inform you that your husband has died today with other 13 people at the inland regional center in san Bernardino in a mass shooting. Was one of the messages delivered the second of December 2015 by the police department of san Bernardino California. The massive shootings‚ massacres and terrorist attempts are a nightmare that have become a reality in America‚ and relatives of the victims have commented that there’s not such a pain in the whole world to find
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Shooting an Elephant “Shooting an Elephant” is an essay written by George Orwell from 1938. The story is about his own experience when he was an English sub-divisional policeman in a town in India called Burma. At that time India was under the control of Britain and Orwell worked for The British Imperial Police‚ so he has to do orders even though his sympathy lie with the “natives”. One day Orwell was called out‚ because a tame elephant was ravaging the bazaar. With him he took his rifle
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On April 20‚ 1999‚ two high school students by the names of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carefully and maliciously planned a massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton‚ Colorado. They killed fifteen people‚ one being a teacher‚ and left twenty-three in need of hospitalization before finally turning their guns on themselves. This event influenced Elliot Aronson to write his book‚ Nobody Left To Hate‚ in hopes to educate people on why such travesties occur within our schools‚ andmost importantlywhat
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On April 20‚ 1999‚ two Columbine High School students‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ went on a shooting rampage in Colorado‚ killing 12 students and a teacher before ending their own lives (Leftwich 1). Nearly seven years later there seemed to be an annual shooting rampage trend. On October 2‚ 2006 a gunman by the name of Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostage five girls‚ at an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania‚ and eventually shot and killed them before committing suicide (“5th Girl” 1-2). The following
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“On the whole human beings want to be good‚ but not too good‚ and not quite all the time.” -George Orwell Shooting an Elephant‚ by George Orwell is a story how a young Orwell‚ while stationed in Colonial Burma‚ became disillusioned with Imperialism. On one occasion he was faced with the dilemma of having to destroy a wild elephant that had gotten loose in the town he was stationed in. Throughout the story the reader will be able to see two alternating voices of Orwell. The first voice is a justification
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