The Bombing Of Orlando Nightclub

On June 12, 2016 a 29 year old man named Omar Mateen walked into Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida and killed 50 people and wounded 53 people. Omar Mateen was a security guard wanting a future in law enforcement. Pulse is a popular gay nightclub and Mateen entered the nightclub around 2 a.m. with both a handgun and a rifle. He began shooting anyone and everyone in the dark and loud nightclub while people ran to hide and protect themselves from getting shot. Some people used bodies around them to cover themselves and others crawled out the air vent when it was removed. Many people were falling to the ground and Mateen would make sure people were dead by shooting them several times. Mateen was in the restroom around 5 a.m. when he had a three hour stand off with the police until police finally crashed into the night club and shot him dead. In the past Omar Mateen was seen drinking in the nightclub many times over the past three years. The guns that Omar Mateen were legal and purchased. 39 people were pronounced dead inside the nightclub and two were pronounced dead in the parking lot. Later 11 people that were taken to the hospital were pronounced dead. This became the worst massacre shooting to occur in the United States. This called a hate crime because he targeted the LGBQT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer and Transgender) community and his family told the police that he has become angry about two men kissing in Miami. The police has records of Mateen calling 911 saying

An ever increasing emphasis on the prevention of mass shootings has presented the option of gun control and bans. Mass shootings have occurred many times throughout history, but have

The Australian (2013) reported about a man who shot at workers at the naval headquarters in Washington and killed 12 innocent people. It also says that in America the murder rate related to gun shooting is three times more than other countries. These all are just due to easier gun laws and more access to them. As the U.S President Barack Obama said “The main difference that sets our nation apart, what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is we don’t do enough, we don’t take the basic common sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people.” (The Australian , 2013)

The Oklahoma City bombing was a residential terrorist bomb assault on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Completed by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing crushed 33% of the building, murdered 168 individuals, and harmed more than 680 others. The impact wrecked or harmed 324 different structures inside a 16-piece span, smashed glass in 258 adjacent structures, and decimated or smoldered 86 autos, creating an expected $652 million worth of harm. Broad salvage endeavors were embraced by nearby, state, government, and overall offices in the wake of the bombing, and considerable gifts were gotten from the nation over. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) initiated eleven of its Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces, comprising of 665 salvage laborers who helped with salvage and recuperation operations.

Gun Control has obviously gone out of control in the recent years. Look around, they are everywhere. Reducing the rate of Crime in the United States would make the country a better place to live. In the past and in the present, Mass Shootings have impacted America. Virginia Tech shooting killed 33 teachers and students (Bowman). In 1999, the

Both shooter were not over the age of eighteen at the time. So they had to find other ways to obtain multiple firearms. As Eric and Dylan said “had they not obtained their guns they way they did, they would of found other ways” (Gerdes). This demonstrates that if we enforce harsh gun laws the criminals will just find another way to obtain weapons. So if we enforce harsh gun laws this will do nothing to protect our citizens. The only thing harsh gun laws will do is unarm our citizens that have legally obtained a firearm. If none of our citizens have a firearm to protect themselves from people that did not legally obtained a firearm there will chaos in america because there will not be enough law enforcement to protect its citizens. This is the main reason citizens who legally obtained a firearm should be able to keep it. Guns should be allowed in public places such as schools. Because if only a couple the teachers and staff had a weapon or firearm they could of possibly stopped what Eric and Dylan were trying to do. U.S citizens need to arm our teachers and staff at schools and public offices, a couple of SRO officers can not protect a whole school from all

This Orlando shooting is an important event from a historical perspective because it shows that people don't accept the gay community and won’t let them live their lives with a person of the same sex .The shooter know as “Omar Amir Seddique Matten “ ,who killed at least 49 people and injured 53 in the Pulse nightclub around 3 am ,he carried an assault rifle .This event was marked as a hate crime combined with a terrorist attack ,the shooter was allegiance with ISIS but this isn't the first time the government has heard Matten name in the Boston Marathon because he called 911 told them he was allegiance to ISIS and told them the Boston Marathon bomber names .I feel that the government could of done more research about the shooter because

As a result of the Las Vegas Massacre, people are demanding political action to be taken. Mass shootings have been almost too regularly occurring in the past ten years. In fact, just in our current year, “there have been two hundred and seventy three mass shootings in the United States” (Fox 1). This number averages to seven and a half mass shootings per week! These staggering numbers are pressing a very real issue to our leader on gun control laws. A mass shooting has no true definition but follows a strict criteria.According to the Gun Violence Archive, which receives data from shooting incidents, a "mass shooting" is any incident in which a gunman kills four or more people, selects victims randomly, and attacks in a public place (Fox 1). It is necessary for action to be taken in order to decline the occurrence of gun violence. The topic of gun control has sparked great controversy amongst Americans. Protests regarding this issue has led me to research gun control to see how heavily it corresponds with mass shootings. Are more strict gun control laws essential to low gun- related crimes in the United States?

n this article, Cooke examines many of the most horrific mass shootings of recent years with the purpose of hypothesizing whether stricter gun control laws would have prevented any or all of those tragedies. His conclusion is that they would not have. He then extends this contention to state that gun control laws in general are useless, because they clearly do not prevent acts of mass violence.

Gun violence is very prominent in the United States. It has been for quite some time. There are several problems with how people are accessing firearms, and the type of firearms they are buying. People are accessing firearms way to easy nowadays. Some of these firearms are stolen or illegal. We need to somehow crack down on firearms and how these men and women are accessing them so easily. According to BBC, “Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, and 26,819 people were injured. These figure exclude suicides.” They also stated “There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, which catalogues such incidents. A mass shooting is defined as a single shooting incident which kills or injures four or more people, including the assailant.” These numbers are outrageous and something needs to be done.

Throughout the past few years, disturbing amounts of mass shooting have occurred in the United States. This is paired with the fact that gun ownership in the United States stays significantly higher per capita as compared to any other developed nation. Lastly, statistics from these tragedies evidenced that most of the weapons used are legally obtained, high volume weapons. It remains clear that as a country we cannot stay at the top in gun-ownership, and consequently have mass shootings decrease. We must examine ways that regulating gun ownership can prevent tragedies.

Mass shootings have been around since the 1980s but the number of mass shootings is increasing. Until 2010 mass shootings happened 6 months apart from each other but now they are happening only two months apart. According to the article One Mass Shooting Every Day there has been an average of only 72 days between mass shootings during the period of 2010 to 2017, while this rate was 162 days from 2000 to 2010. One of the most recent mass shooting was the incident that happened in Las Vegas. On October of this year, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, Nevada. A night that was spouse to be fun and joyful, where innocent people were just having a good time and enjoying the moment turned into one of the horrific nights of the history. This incident was the deadliest mass shooting in the US that has been committed by one individual. The shooter was 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who shoot at the crowd from the 32nd floor of a nearby hotel, leaving 58 people dead and 546 people injured. Twenty-three firearms were found in his 32nd-floor suite. One big question that comes up is that why was he allowed to purchase not two, not three, not ten but twenty-three firearms? He was just a real estate investor with a bad habit of gambling, he did not have the need to own

On June twelfth, this year the world woke up to the tragic news of a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. A twenty-three-year-old man, Omar Mateen, opened fire at a popular gay nightclub in downtown Orlando known as Pulse. Acting alone Mateen used an AR-15 assault rifle and a handgun. By the time law enforcement could stop him fifty people were killed and fifty others were injured. This incident is dubbed the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in history. Shocked from this event and others the nation called upon its leaders to make a change in gun control law. Gun control has become the main topic for debate among lawmakers and citizens across the country due to the deadly attacks within the last decade. Many people debate issues of the Second Amendment and a variety of other subtopics related to gun control and gun rights. Gun control laws are not enforceable because there are too many variations in laws and opinions across the country. Complications in the interpretation of the Second Amendment, other federal laws, differences between state laws and level of restrictiveness all add to the confusion and complications of gun control in the United States.

The debate over gun control laws is a very controversial issue in the United States and out of the many issues currently up for debate in American politics, there is no other topic that has a partisan divide quite as deep as the debate over gun control. Few people advocate for mass shootings or other forms of gun violence, except of course for the perpetrators of such actions. It may be easy to blame the recent uptick of gun violence in recent years on the sheer prevalence of guns in American society. After all, if there are no guns that means there should be no mass shootings, right? Many estimates put the number of guns owned by Americans at over 300 million and often more than the U.S. population itself. (112.6 guns per 100

Mass shooting and gun control have been major problem in today’s society. With all the mass shootings that have happened recently has made them both a well talked about topic. It has brought up the topic of how we can stop mass shootings from happening. It is going to take a lot to protect our country from these mass shooting but it is doable. The main problem is how these criminals are getting their hands on gun without any problem. The government needs to start to come out with stricter laws on how people can get their hands on guns. They also need a way to have better background checks. In today’s world it shouldn’t take minutes to get a gun, it should take at least a couple of days before you are able to purchase a gun. It is outrageous that criminals are able to get their hands on guns with the technology we have today. Our government needs to do more to make sure criminals and other threats aren’t able to buy guns.