On October 3, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon, a student began shooting at Umpqua Community College. The gunman first opened fire on an English class and continued his rampage throughout the college until the police showed up six minutes later. Once the police arrived the shooter only exchanged fire with the authorities briefly before he pulled the gun on himself. The gunman, Chris Harper-Mercer, killed nine students at the college. After the calamity, investigators searched Harper-Mercer's house and found fourteen firearms in his home. All weapons were legally purchased from federally licensed firearms dealers. This article was written by Sara Sidner, Faith Karimi, and Kayung Lah on October 3, 2015 at 5:14 P.M. I think the article was written to express the terrible happening to the public and inform people of how dangerous it can be to trust someone with firearms. This article is significant because it directly proves how people who meet the guidelines to own a weapon aren't necessarily trustworthy with a gun.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/03/us/oregon-umpqua-community-college-shooting/index.html
It is scary how many schools are threatened by gunmen. I think gun control needs to be tightened to protect today's students. Hearing things like this makes me feel unsafe at school.
ReplyDeleteThis is really frightening! So many schools are threatened lately and it makes me question the safety of our own school
ReplyDeleteThis was a terrible event that occurred. I agree with Tea that I makes me question how safe are our school's really considering how many campus shootings have occurred lately.
ReplyDeleteThis is awful and scary. It's crazy that we could be threatened on any day. I agree with both Tea's. It makes me question if it will happen to us. - Kayleigh Smerud
ReplyDeleteThis is terrible... The amount of school shootings that have occurred over the past year is horrifying, it's terrible that this isn't receiving more media coverage - some people seem to have desensitized themselves to such horrors and now it may just become another statistic. I'm all for the right to bear arms, but it's things like these that also make me want much, much more gun control.
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Wow!! This is crazy! He killed nine students?!? Just makes all of us a little nervous, because that could be any school. This shooting is terrible, I wonder the background info.
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