Tag / Sandy Hook
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3D Printed Guns And Gun Control
I remember watching the Vice documentary, “3D Printed Guns,” six years ago. The documentary followed the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting where 26 people, most of them children, were killed — the bloody capstone of what was referred to by some as “the year of the gun.” The documentary itself covered the existence and development of…
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America, the Pendulum
During my sophomore year of high school, in a classroom just 13 minutes from the site of the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, my speech and debate coach showed my class a video of a “duo interpretation.” A sharp departure from the humorous clips my coach typically opted for, the piece was a…
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How Shootings Spread
On October 10 at about 10 pm, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers. From his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort, he shot and killed 58 people, injuring hundreds more. National discourse on gun control erupted, as it does whenever there is a gun massacre. Paddock had committed…
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On Vegas
During my sophomore year of high school, in a classroom just 13 minutes from the site of this week’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, my speech and debate coach showed my class a video of a ‘duo interpretation’. A sharp departure from the humorous clips my coach typically opted for, the piece was a ten-minute-long…
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The Future of Our Mental Health System
BY VICTORIA SGARRO About ten months ago, a 20-year-old man walked into a Connecticut elementary school and fatally shot twenty children and six adults. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School sparked a renewal of the never-ending national debate over gun rights and violence. As a traumatized country searched for answers, the conversation turned toward…
