Family Shooting Narrative

We must empower them as agents of their community to reduce violence by offering care in a manner that values participants’ dignity, eliminates shame, humiliation, and stigma. Our mantra is “Work on the Heart, Change the Mind & Skill the Hands” Heart- how they see life by building trust and strong relationships, , “Head” – Empower with knowledge, and Hand – self- sufficiency empowerment to give back while supporting and building upon their skills. ”. By empowering the highest risk individuals in reducing the number of shootings that occur in Roseland and the acceptability of violence among the highest risk community members, we can change the violent

Douglasville, a small town in Georgia, held a town hall meeting on how to survive in dangerous situations. This meeting attracted many worried people who felt that they were vulnerable and clueless on how to protect themselves due to the most recent attacks in Paris, a Planned Parenthood clinic, and a massacre of employees in California. An Army Veteran led the meeting with a self defense lecture, a pep talk, and videos that played out scenarios and tips. He believes that with all the negativity this period has endured, citizens should always have a game plan and an idea on what to do in any given situation. At the meeting, they handed out packets with guidelines promoted by the F.B.I and Department of Homeland Security stating that “such incidents

Anyone who values the lives of other humans so little that he or she is willing and make the decision to kill, is the true scum of the Earth. They deserve no fame and no recognition for what they did. Now putting their faces on the news does have it benefits too, letting everyone know that there will be punishment, and his or her face can be a target at the gun range. So both sides have some good points, but I believe Sheriff John Hanlin is right when he didn’t put the name and face up of the Oregon shooter, he believes that keeping the identity hidden will help cut down on his or her glorification. Instead we should promote heroes and put them in the newspapers. The Oregon shooting saw one such example when army veteran, Chris Mintz, charged the shooter and was shoot seven times

Getting access to this weapon has become easier and it is more accessible to anyone who wants one. Not all guns are used for violence and in a society like today’s, many people keep one for a sense of security and comfort. No matter the reason for having a gun, there are many people who use this weapon to cause harm. In Patrick O’Carroll’s article, he introduces the idea of preventing homicide in Detroit by informing the audience of the gun violence that occurs. The crude homicide rate in Detroit, Michigan is the highest in any large city in the United States.

In this article, “At least 26 dead in shooting at Texas church,” Dakin Andone, Kaylee Hartung, and Darran Simon discuss the tragic shooting that took place in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The shooter was a 26-year-old named Devin Patrick Kelley. He was a member of the US Air Force, but received a bad conduct discharge in 2014 and served a year in prison for assault on his wife and son. After the shooting, Kelley was found dead in his vehicle. It is still unclear whether or not he was shot by a neighbor or inflicted the injury on himself. 26 people died in this shooting and another 20 were injured. The ages of the victims range from 5 to 72 years old. This town is described as a place where “everybody knows everybody,” (Andone

Over the last decade or so, the United States of America has been shaken by an epidemic of terrifying mass shootings, devastating slayings of unexpecting victims, and unnerving annihilations of the innocent. There is no specific target, no explicitly sought-out group, nor definite individual. From a classroom of first-graders, to a crowded movie theatre, to a U.S. Naval yard, the location seems at most, random, other than that it is almost always a public place. The perpetrators responsible for these horrific murders also vary, and often surprise those who thought they knew them. However, while the occurrences of mass shootings are unpredictable and always shocking, most have one thing in

Active shootings are occuring more frequently affecting many communities and families in the United States. These acts of random violence has set many people on edge afraid of where and when another attack will happen next. Attacks are not just happening at schools, they have occured at airports, theaters, and even churches. This is why trainings such as the one in Dublin have came about to allow residents the ability to protect themselves wherever they are at, in case of an attack.

According to the Toronto Police Service, in 2016 alone there has been an astonishing 190 incidents involving gun violence, with 39 of them resulting in death. This has been a 50% increase from the previous year. So how must we combat this incessant and utterly unnecessary bloodshed on the streets of Toronto? Well, first we must make a distinction that guns do not kill people, but rather, people kill people. This highlights that gun violence is not primarily due to the weapon itself, but the social conditions that instigate such altercations. Therefore, we must make an effort to increase the communal services available to those situated in areas with a history of gun violence. Particularly, these

"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

As stated before mass shootings have increased drastically throughout the decades. Just within 2017, the number of mass shootings are 293 with several deaths and injuries, (“Gun Violence Archive”). Within the last 10 years, the deadliest mass shootings have occurred in America history, (CNN). Recently in Las Vegas, Nevada held a music festival for people to enjoy and listen to music, but a shooting changed the evening for many. A man was in an hotel near the event and shot down towards the people and killed a total of 58 people and injured at least 200, (CNN). The Orlando shooting was right behind it with a total of 49 dead, (CNN). Since this has become a part of our everyday lives, we rarely hear about all the mass shootings that kill not even into the double digits.

I can remember the day that my cousin Andrew got shot. Andrew wasn’t really my cousin. Andrew was my babysitter. When Andrew would babysit me he would always tell his friends to bring their siblings over for me to have someone to play with and company for him. Andrew was well known; everyone knew not to mess with him or get on his bad side because his family had a bad reputation, but Andrew was really a good guy. He had all A’s, wasn’t really a fighter, just an overall guy who lived the street life. He always told me that he never wanted to be in the streets and do the things he did for money, just to be successful and go to college. Andrew had a brother name Andre around my age and sister a little younger, so we were all close.

In this article domestic violence and gun rights are the main topics, especially in Louisiana. This article tells the story of a domestic violence situation, when a man named Dennis barged into a home killing a woman named Donna and then his son. Then moving on to find his daughter-in-law who would jump out of the second story window in order to escape the killer; however, Dennis would make his way down stairs firing off rounds that would strike the two year old four times killing him as the two fled. As the article continues it explains that Louisiana has one of the higher rates of domestic violence crimes committed in the United States, along with how Louisiana is planning to help the victims and decrease the crime rate involving domestic

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Imagine someone enters the place you love most, a place you feel safe in comes in and disrupts the place by going ballistic and shooting, not just towards anonymous people but to those you consider family. This violence affects my life by making my the turn every time I hear a door open or considering that anyone surrounding me can be someone armed ready to harm. At any moment, time, or place anyone