Orlando June 12th 2016, Las Vegas 1st October 2017, Sutherland Springs November 5th 2017, Parkland 20th February 2018, Santa Fe May 10th 2018, Pittsburgh October 27th 2018 and Thousand Oaks November 7th 2018. All of these dates and places represent a US shooting where 10 or more people have been killed since the start of 2016. Since the Sandy Hook shooting in […]
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Gun Control: Where America has gone wrong
On Wednesday 14th February, we again witnessed the American government’s inability to prioritise the value of life. In Parkland, Florida, 17 lives were lost at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in a mass shooting, these individuals became another heart-breaking statistic, symbolising the fallacy the rest of society has been led to believe: America is the leader […]
Gun Laws still not under control at the wake of the Douglas School Shooting
Republicans defend officers that didn’t want to face an AR-15, I bet the 17 victims didn’t either. The tragedy in Parkland is, according to Everytown, the 18th incident in America in which a gun has been discharged on a school campus this year alone, and the 5th in which a student was injured or killed […]
The Foreign Perspective: Gun control in the USA
Two weeks ago, gun control was thrust back into the limelight in America after yet another college shooting, this time at Umpqua Community College, where 9 people were killed. As Obama said in his national broadcast, these shootings are becoming all too familiar. So why does the self-proclaimed “greatest nation on earth” not do something […]