Central Michigan University Faces Shooting with 2 killed- Victoria Gonzalez

    On Friday March 2, 2018 a 19-year-old gunman entered the campus of Central Michigan University and began shooting. Luckily the shooting didn't exceed to gain the title of a mass shooting but the unfortunate consequences of this young man's actions were two people killed: his parents. The shooter was nineteen year old, James E. Davis Jr., and is believed to have started the shooting because of potential drug overdose. This however, is still under investigation regarding details about his weaponry, his background and his history with violence. I will not go into detail about what should be happening with guns and the illogical thought-process behind allowing weapons such as guns to be in the hands of mentally-ill or even genuinely bad people, I will however,  synthesize the act of letting the NRA play a hand in the poker game of politics. The NRA is not legally able to affect our bills and laws directly from the seat of the White House, but they are able to have politicians bend to their preferred course action with a single word: money. Extremely and unfortunately similar to the Gilded Age, the actions between business and government are united as a single movement with business offering the economy cash and a life of leisure while the government shows their gratitude by doing what they do best-nothing. The NRA has had a vivd history of giving large donations to one's political campaign not by donating directly from the company but from members within. These recipients include 28 members of the House and Senate representing our state, Texas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/us/central-michigan-campus-shooting.html
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