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Current Events # 2
There are many events today that connect with world history events from way back. For example there is a huge controversy with the Navy Yard shooter that relates to the Bill of Rights. But, first what happened at the Washington Navy Yard?
At 8:15 A.M., 34 years old Aaron Alexis who was a computer technician for a private Navy contractor killed 12 people and wounded four others in the Sept. 16 rampage as he fired a sawedoff Remington 870 Express shotgun, into which he had etched several statements, including "End to the torment!" The Washington
Navy Yard shooter believed he was being targeted by an "ultra low frequency attack" and left a note saying that this was "what I've been subject to for the last 3 months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this," the FBI revealed Wednesday. This makes me think was it intentional or was he just crazy or was it both.
America has a history particular over the last 20 years since the Columbine
High School Massacre of having these kind of spree killers. We have this issue in
America right now where people with psychological problems have access to weapons. In context this isn't even the first one of these attacks that has happened this year. Over the past year we have had these 3 incidents; one at Sandy Hook where 20 year old Adam Lanza killed his mom and then went to where she worked and killed 20 kindergarteners and 6 staff members, we had another incident that happened in Colorado, where the home of the American spree killer, went in and shot up a room full of movie people watching a Batman movie, killing 12 people and injuring 70. It seems that the threat connecting all these guys is that they have mental health issues and they have access to guns.
Why do we have access to guns? Well because of the Bill of Rights.The Bill of Rights is what we have been studying in standard 10.2. The Bill of Rights is 10
Amendments that protect such basic rights as freedom of
There are many events today that connect with world history events from way back. For example there is a huge controversy with the Navy Yard shooter that relates to the Bill of Rights. But, first what happened at the Washington Navy Yard?
At 8:15 A.M., 34 years old Aaron Alexis who was a computer technician for a private Navy contractor killed 12 people and wounded four others in the Sept. 16 rampage as he fired a sawedoff Remington 870 Express shotgun, into which he had etched several statements, including "End to the torment!" The Washington
Navy Yard shooter believed he was being targeted by an "ultra low frequency attack" and left a note saying that this was "what I've been subject to for the last 3 months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this," the FBI revealed Wednesday. This makes me think was it intentional or was he just crazy or was it both.
America has a history particular over the last 20 years since the Columbine
High School Massacre of having these kind of spree killers. We have this issue in
America right now where people with psychological problems have access to weapons. In context this isn't even the first one of these attacks that has happened this year. Over the past year we have had these 3 incidents; one at Sandy Hook where 20 year old Adam Lanza killed his mom and then went to where she worked and killed 20 kindergarteners and 6 staff members, we had another incident that happened in Colorado, where the home of the American spree killer, went in and shot up a room full of movie people watching a Batman movie, killing 12 people and injuring 70. It seems that the threat connecting all these guys is that they have mental health issues and they have access to guns.
Why do we have access to guns? Well because of the Bill of Rights.The Bill of Rights is what we have been studying in standard 10.2. The Bill of Rights is 10
Amendments that protect such basic rights as freedom of