http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/31/opinion/granderson-guns-waiting/index.html?hpt=us_mid
http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/29/georgia-man-shoots-and-kills-young-latino-who-accidentally-pulled-into-his-driveway-police-say/
Last week, more tragic shootings and gun violence happened in America. The first one happened in Alabama, when an armed man named Jimmy Lee Dykes boarded a school bus dropping kids off after school, and demanded two students. The bus driver, named Charles Albert Poland, refused and tried to defend the students, but got shot four times by Dykes and was killed. Dykes is in police custody and is being interrogated about children he is believed to have abducted and be currently holding as hostages. On the same day in Chicago, Hadiya Pendleton, a girl who had just recently performed at Obama's inauguration, was shot down by a gangbanger. Another recent one that stirred much uproar on Social Networks particularly was that an innocent Latino man was shot and killed in Georgia. The victim named Rodrigo Diaz accidentally pulled into a Georgia man named Phillip Sailors' driveway, mistaking it for his nearby friend's house. However, the paranoid Georgia man stereotyped Diaz and thought he was a Latino coming to rob him, so he took out his legally obtained gun and heartlessly shot and killed Diaz. Those are just the gun-related events happening in a normal week in America nowadays.
The Newtown massacre was supposed to change America and the way we deal with guns, but these events are proof that little change is actually happening. A Pew Research Center poll found that 85% of Americans are for universal background checks back to limit the ability of convicted felons and the mentally ill to get a gun, yet we still wait and wait while more innocent people are killed while we make up our minds.
http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/29/georgia-man-shoots-and-kills-young-latino-who-accidentally-pulled-into-his-driveway-police-say/
Last week, more tragic shootings and gun violence happened in America. The first one happened in Alabama, when an armed man named Jimmy Lee Dykes boarded a school bus dropping kids off after school, and demanded two students. The bus driver, named Charles Albert Poland, refused and tried to defend the students, but got shot four times by Dykes and was killed. Dykes is in police custody and is being interrogated about children he is believed to have abducted and be currently holding as hostages. On the same day in Chicago, Hadiya Pendleton, a girl who had just recently performed at Obama's inauguration, was shot down by a gangbanger. Another recent one that stirred much uproar on Social Networks particularly was that an innocent Latino man was shot and killed in Georgia. The victim named Rodrigo Diaz accidentally pulled into a Georgia man named Phillip Sailors' driveway, mistaking it for his nearby friend's house. However, the paranoid Georgia man stereotyped Diaz and thought he was a Latino coming to rob him, so he took out his legally obtained gun and heartlessly shot and killed Diaz. Those are just the gun-related events happening in a normal week in America nowadays.
The Newtown massacre was supposed to change America and the way we deal with guns, but these events are proof that little change is actually happening. A Pew Research Center poll found that 85% of Americans are for universal background checks back to limit the ability of convicted felons and the mentally ill to get a gun, yet we still wait and wait while more innocent people are killed while we make up our minds.
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