Essay On American Shooting

Today’s media (news) plays an enormous role in the lives of people in directing a specific perception of the world around them. Most often media conduct's a subconscious effect upon its spectators in which the upshots are deliberately or illdeliberatly towards a particular topic.

The story of Nat Turner’s rebellion, that took place in Southampton, Virginia, on August 22, 1831, is somewhat of a lost event. This is because this particular stand was not the most successful at first, but it resulted in the later years as an rewarding rebellion. Nat Turner’s rebellion affected racism and slavery, by being a leader, by being influential, and by showing bravery. All three of these things must be used in order to have a successful rebellion in this situation especially.

Nat Turner was born a slave in Richmond, Virginia in 1831. In this narrative Nate Turner recounts his version of events and later recorded during his revolt in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831. The revolt lasted two days but Nate was not captured until six weeks after. He was then tried for insurrection. Thomas Ruffin Gray was said to be the lawyer who questioned Nate as his trial. Gray questions his state of mind, why he led the revolt and whether he felt mistaken in doing so. Gray also documents Nate’s confession as he explains in detail his personal struggles and the visions he encountered prior going through with the revolt. He also describes the people, places and the slaves that assisted him. No one was spared men, women and children were murdered with hand tools.

School shootings, gang violence, drive by shootings, murder, and thousands of acts of violence are committed every day. Members of our society criticize their own people for this violence while they continue to sit back and do nothing about it. These acts of violence have many contributing factors. Violence in our country today is escalating because we don't control the distribution of the guns sold. There are not enough restrictions on guns sold legally. The illegal purchase of guns through the black market is out of control. There is not enough education on the usage and storage of guns.

This anti slavery movement gained momentum for Nat Turner’s rebellion. Nathaniel Turner was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States. Slaves and freed slaves that upheld Christian views received great support from religious abolitionists. For instance, Reverend Mr. Gloucester, a freed black minister, was gifted with funds from the church to aid in freeing his family (Document C). An underlying cause of the Christian abolitionist’s disapproval of slavery arose from their realization of the cruelty in enslavement.

In 1800 Nat Turner was born property to the owner of the Southampton County and the son of slaves as well. Turner was praised at an early age for his brilliance; it was known that he could see into the future by having visions that God himself had laid upon Turner. Turner knew the bible practically inside and out ,therefore he was able to present himself as a Godly figure or prophet. One particular vision he had turned into the bloodiest battle between white men and black men. This lead to the slave rebellion; Turner, who lead the rebellion started his attack with the Travis family. It was told by the end of this rebellion 55 white men, women ,and children were killed.

Nat Turner led the bloodiest slave mutiny in the American history between 1800-1831 in South Hampton County, Virginia. He confessed to having traveled from one plantation to another slaughtering 55 white people while gaining new slave recruits. The fully alerted whites from South Hampton and the neighboring counties created an armed response, and later Nat Turner was arrested when hiding in the woods. He was convicted of murder and insurrection and executed by hanging in Jerusalem, Virginia (Gray 90).

V. Nat Turner Rebellion (1831) – This was a major slave rebellion that took place in Southern Virginia. The rebellion was led by Nat Turner, and he led many rebel slaves who murdered over 50 white men. The rebellion only lasted a few days, but it had a huge impact on

Everyday 93 Americans are killed by guns. Whether it is due to homicide or suicide, it does not matter. At the end of the day gun violence is increasing exponentially. In numerous states, gun laws have been placed in the hopes of reducing gun violence. But now many people believe that gun violence should be treated as a public health problem. I for one feel that gun violence should be put in the category of public health. Every year more than 30,000 people are victims to gun related incidents. It has become such an issue that gun violence is causing more deaths than some life threatening diseases.

Nat Turner’s rebellion has been considered one of the bloodiest slave revolt in Southern history, and had a huge impact on the futures of Southern generations for years after. In Nat Turner’s confessions he states “You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it--To do so I must go back to the days of my infancy, and even before I was born. I was thirty-one years of age the 2d of October last, and born the property of Benjamin Turner, of this county.” (Turner 1831 pg.3) Nat Turner lived in South Hampton County, now in Virginia. In South Hampton County, there were many slaves. Slaves would attend praise meetings and celebrate the praise, in such a way the whites did not understand, but the whites still believed that they were harmless. Again, the whites believed that their slaves posed no threat however, nothing was as calm as it appeared. On August 22, 1831, a gang of slave rebels led by a preist, Nat Turner, attacked with guns and axes in the biggest and bloodiest slave revolt in Southern history.

"I'm angry someone would do this to us. There are lives ruined, families ruined, and our whole school year is ruined" (Brackely 1). Casey Brackely, once a student that attended Columbine High School, remembers the tragedy of the horrific Columbine shooting that killed and injured many students. Mass shootings in the United States have been on the rise since the 1980’s, especially in the last decade. These shooters motives and profiles are almost all terrifyingly alike. Many of these shooters try to imitate and parallel the tragic shooting of the Columbine High School in 1999. These shootings have made peaceful organizations, such as an elementary school; become a place of violence and death. Currently, in the United States, an epidemic of

Nine students were killed at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. A man opened fire in a church, in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people, including the pastor. Twenty-seven were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Twelve were killed in the Washington Navy Yard. This is only a few examples from a very long list. The grim truth is that mass shootings are becoming the new normal. Every few months, another mass shooting occurs and the public goes through the same routine of mourning, honoring, and ultimately debating. What causes these manic episodes of multiple, indiscriminate gun deaths? Some push for more gun control, others argue that the U.S. mental health system is a failure. Controversy aside,

On October 1, 2017 America was, yet again, devastated when Las Vegas suffered the United States worst mass shooting. One man killed over 50 people and injured 527. After he was finished firing from the 39th floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort, he committed suicide. His name was Stephan Paddock (Yan and Park). When most people think of a mass shooting, they think of a terroristic act or someone shooting at a large group of innocent citizens, like Columbine High School or Sandy Hook Elementary School. In actuality, most people do not realize that whenever two or more people are injured or killed by a gun, it is considered a mass shooting. These “mass shootings” happen every day in America and they are one of the leading causes of death in

I arrive at my house to the swoosh of the ball in the net. Josh, the “star” must be shooting free throws, again. Ever since Dad died, all he has been doing is shooting free throws. He claims that it makes him feel “closer to Dad.” I think he just does it to rub in the fact that he made the high school JV team and I didn’t.

The Nat Turner rebellion took place in 1831, and created a great amount of stress for whites. Nat Turner and other slaves killed his owner and family, and looked for more slaves to support them. They did not spare anyone, and killed many including children. He did not believe in mercy for them, and cut off some heads and bodies. Because of Nat Turner’s rebellion, Governor John Floyd decided that slavery must end. He saw that abolishing slavery was the only solution to keep these rebellions from occurring.