Ohio School Shooting-- Madeleine Norton, 4th period

Allegedly today a 14-year-old student opened fire in a cafeteria during school in Ohio, injuring four other pupils and later being led into custody. Currently being questioned right now, it is uncertain whether the victims were random or targeted. But none of them are fatally ill, safe to say. 

Dana Ford of CNN News reports, "Two of the victims were shot, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones told reporters. The other two were injured 'either by shrapnel from the handgun or by injuries getting away from the active shooter,' he said. All four are expected to survive. The shooting happened at Madison Junior-Senior High School in Middletown, Ohio. The sheriff identified the suspected gunman as James Austin Hancock, 14. He was taken into custody outside of the school, and faces charges as a juvenile of attempted murder, felonious assault, inducing panic, and making terroristic threats, Jones said. Madison Local Schools said in an earlier Facebook post that three students had been hurt and all others were safe."

Not only is this shocking to hear in its abrupt harshness, what with a young eighth grader getting a hold of weaponry and injuring fellow pupils (intentional or not), but unsurprising in the cruel fact that this has become almost a norm in the United States. Our country is the highest in the world for random shootings, especially those at school. It's terrifying to see, and makes one constantly wonder about the safety and freedoms implemented by our state and federal government. This can be synthesized with issues in the past concerning our rights to bear arms (starting from the Revolutionary War and onwards).

One question I personally have in contribution to the ongoing elections is this: besides large issues our country is facing foreign policy-wise, which candidates are conversing openly and how about planning to fix "smaller" domestic issues surrounding states, roads, shootings, drug laws, alcoholism, etc? How are they approaching these problems, and does that open our eyes to the viewpoints we have about these certain candidates?

Article located in further here: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/us/ohio-school-incident/index.html