Drive-by shootings

The book Bless The Beasts and The Children is an adventure fiction book. Adventure fiction means “a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger” The book was originally published in 1970, and was written by Glendon Swarthout. The setting of the book begins at a summer camp in Prescott, Arizona called Box Canyon Boys Camp. This setting is important and adds meaning to the story because if it did not take place at the summer camp none of the main

The Real World Gunnar Thompson, 650 word, Growing Up One of the biggest turning points in my life was when I got my first job. I wasn’t even old enough to drive yet when I was first hired at the Middletown Sportsmen’s Club. I remember the anxiety and excitement that came along with it. I was so scared that I would mess something up when I first started and I remember my dad saying to me “don’t worry about because everyone makes mistakes especially when they are doing something that is new to them

It only opens with cars not jeep or buses. The next day in the morning Steven had a meeting with all of the Crips. He explained on how they were going to start a big war against the Bloods from Willis Avenue. He stated that he wanted to do a drive by shooting with 3 cars besides the car he was going in. He wanted his strongest people to go on that mission with him. Steven wanted everybody to recognize his status in the

My dad was adamant that I would not get a license until I was at least eighteen. He refused to teach me to drive even though he would take my sixteen year old brothers out every weekend for driving lesson. My dad refusal to teach me how to drive. Only motivated me to learn how to drive on my own. In high school in I had a couple of friends that own cars and they gladly taught me how to drive afterschool. Eventually, I acquired enough driving experience that I felt confident enough to take my driving

Gun Concealment The year is 1978. A man is leaving his house to drive to work in the city of Chicago. He says goodbye to his wife and children and walks out to his car, starts up the engine, and proceeds to drive to work. When he arrives, a hooded man is walking up to him with a firearm and demands his money. Now this man has little to no money to feed his family or pay their bills, and he could have avoided all of this if he had just also had a firearm on him. All fifty states in the United States

notice the problem in 2007 when there was one of the most known school shootings at Virginia Tech. “Caitlin Hammaren was just a normal sophomore at Virginia Tech and on April 16, 2007 what seemed as just a normal day of class her life had been taken away from her” (Why gun control is important) After that, it again became a hot topic in 2012, when there was another school shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school. This shooting seemed to really hit a lot of people because many young children had been

On Thursday, 4/14/2016, at approximately 5:55 P.M. I was dispatched to 1909 Hemlock Drive in reference to someone discharging a firearm. Dispatch advised that a neighbor witnesses the incident and that the two white males were getting into a vehicle. The vehicle was described as black, Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck. Upon my arrival to Hemlock drive I located the residence and observed a black, Chevrolet S-10 parked in the yard with the passenger door open. There vehicle was unoccupied. As I approached

control conversation. With the mass shootings that occurred in the previous years, the AR-15 was the dominant weapon used in these tragedies. This semi-automatic rifle is classified by the media as an assault rifle in which it is not because the AR-15 is not automatic. The supporters of banning the AR-15 and Gun Control believe that it will stop mass shootings from happening, but there is no evidence that banning any assault weapon would prevent mass shootings. The AR-15 should not be banned because

old married man with two children, is responsible for shooting 8 and murdering 6 in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, on February 22, 2016. Dalton was driving an Uber, targeting people at stops and picking up people in between attacks. The victims ages ranged between 14 and 74. "For all intents and purposes, he was your average Joe," the Kalamazoo County Public Safety Chief said. ABC reported attorney Paul Vlachos stating that before the shootings on February 22, Carol Dalton, Jason Dalton’s wife, was

Israeli couple shot dead in drive-by shooting in West Bank An Israeli couple was traveling with their four children, the youngest 4 months old, the oldest 9 years old, when they were killed in a drive-by shooting in the disputed territory of West Bank. The four children are unharmed, according to the Israeli military. The shooting occurred after the Palestinian flag was raised for the first time in the New York-based United Nations headquarters. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still