Speech At The Newtown, Connecticut Prayer Vigil For The Survivors Of The Sandy Hook Event

December 14, 2012 was a heartbreaking day for America, as twenty children and six adults lost their lives in a school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Two days later, President Barack Obama addressed the nation with an interfaith prayer vigil at Newtown High School to help remember those who had lost their lives, and also to convince the nation that changes need to be made. Obama asked America to make an effort to prevent future tragedies such as this one by caring for our children and using our power to help those around us. Through the use of eulogy, appealing to emotions, and structure, the speech attempts to persuade its audience, America, to make an attempt to avoid future tragedies in order to protect our citizens and to help make America a safer place.

Sandy Hook was a chaotic town on December 14, 2012 where gunman, Adam Lanza, shot and killed twenty children and six staff members. Many family members of the victims are still mourning the loss of their children and loved ones. Over 500 lives were affected after this tragedy (Gay). The author gives an interview of the superintendent of the school in which he shows what he did after he heard the news of the shooting. “I was in the district office and my secretary told me the bus company reported a

The speech tells us that terrorist had attacked Americans, and it left many dead and injured. It tells us that people on the airplane, in the building, people going in to save lives, moms, dads, friends, and other family members had been trapped in that building. Many people outside of the Twin Towers caught the airplane in action hitting the building, this leaving American’s scared for their lives.

Not one person from Sandy Hook, Connecticut ever thought this sort of event would ever happen. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Before the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Lanza shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at his home in Newtown, Connecticut. After the shooting, Lanza successfully committed suicide before he was detained. Which left, the state, officials, and the entire country to question why Lanza would do such a horrible act of violence to innocent children and staff members of the school. Also, questioning the security of schools, and even our country. There are many conspiracies of the

The Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Massachusetts was one of the worst school shootings in recent memory and there were changes and precautions in security in the U.S., in schools and out. After the shooting, not just the Newtown School District changed their security, but so did most of the country. Vice President of the NRA Wayne LePierre started a movement so that there could be trained and armed volunteers in 100,000 schools.

On December 14, 2012, an armed staff member at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. stopped a gunman in his tracks and saved the lives of hundreds of students and teachers. Imagine if this had been the headline on the news, or on the front page of every newspaper. Would it have garnered as much attention as the tragic situation that actually unfolded when an armed gunman stormed the elementary school and committed the deadliest mass school shooting in America’s history? Would gun control activists have come out in droves to protest and feign a need for new gun laws? Would the distraught families of the slain students and teachers be paraded in front of the media and invited

What would you do if you found out that the exact government that feeds you and handles all economic decisions somehow has the power to alter your perception on real life events to make you believe something that isn’t true? Have you ever heard something on TV that you just couldn’t believe? Remember when the Dallas shootings were going on the media said the shooter was, “picking off police officers with a rifle from an elevated surface.” Then they showed you pictures from the peaceful protests where there was this built African American with an army shirt. The media claimed that the man was the main suspect of the shooting but further research found that same man handed his firearm over to authorities before the shooting happened,

Due to the Orlando shooting I'm on fb for the first time since a while and instantly reminded why I stopped.

It was April 20, 1999. Gunfire rang loudly as nervous students dashed through the halls. Other students hid under desks, praying and hoping that they would make it out alive. On the streets, numerous parents gathered around and stared in disbelief, hugging and crying. As sirens blared, policemen rushed into the school turned crime scene.

On December 14, 2012 the attack on our school at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School indicated that this is a mandatory action that we have to bring to our attention especially when dealing with our students. After this shooting, majority of our students and their families still feel that they are threatened and that their lives are in danger.

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President Obama’s, March on Washington, Speech somewhat defined our progress in the U.S. with equality between the races in our country. You ask where do you think we are on the road to true quality? Well, the first time we marched for equality we changed a lot for the better and that was when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was around. I believe we’re too close to equality, but it’s like we don’t want it because of little issues. If we acted more as one country instead of opposing races disliking another because they’re a little unique, we might be even closer. True equality is to close we just have to reach for it.

On April 20, 1999, two teenaged boys opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 13 students and wounding more than 20 others before ending their lives later that day. This crime was the worst school shooting in the 20th century and it has drastically changed the ways our schools operate. Although schools today are still not 100% safe and have had a few incidents in the past 10 years, we are slowly evolving and becoming better each year. Because of the Columbine massacre, we have learned many things and are still learning to become better each year nationwide. Public schools have improved their safety protocols vigorously by heightening security, creating Zero-Tolerance Policies and Bullying and Violence Prevention Programs. Schools have also allowed cell phones on campus and there is more Mental Health Counseling. The Columbine school massacre has made a huge cultural significance to us and is still important to us today. Without this massacre, we wouldn’t be where we are nationwide with our schooling systems.

On a regular school day just like any other, a male shooter shot up an elementary ruining, everybody’s lives by killing 20 kids, 6 teachers, and then taking his own life, still to this day no ones knows why he did what he did. The Sandy Hook shooting made multiple elementary and high schools become more cautions about who comes in and out. With the heartache and confusion the shooter left the many families with made it an unforgettable moment in history that will always be remembered.

In President Barack Obama’s speech, he often mentioned the past history of the United States of America, starting with the founding documents of our country. The founding documents its self are the history of our country, but we looked at it in a different perspective; as it was an idea of freedom, in the term of all men are created equal. President Barack Obama is using history as a tool to links his audiences back to those timeline when our country were at war with fascism, segregation, communism and how the government and the peoples had overcome those events with strong confidence. The President uses the past history as a lesson for us to learn from; therefore we will make better history in the future.