With the aid of his vigilante force, the Guardians of the Oglala Nation (GOON’s) he attacked the “traditionalists”. Over sixty murders have occurred in this reservation between the year 1973 and 1975 and still remain unsolved. To protect the Reservation, traditionalist requested the AIM to allocate them members to protect them from further attacks by the GOON’s. Among them was Leonard Peltier, who at the time was being accused of the attempted murder of a police officer in Wisconsin. On June 26, 1975 FBI agents, Ronald A. Williams and Jack R. Coler were allegedly shot dead by Leonard
He was a very ruthless man that killed 800 Pueblo men, women, and children. Surviving warriors had one foot severed and more than 500 people were enslaved. | 6.) Who was Samuel de Champlain? | Samuel Champlain was a royal monopoly agent; who help France devise a strategy to monopolize the fur trade.
Jorge Farragut, James’s father, was a United States army and navy officer . James was born an innocent and carefree young boy, but soon enough he would become one of the most well known heroes in the history of the United States. James father was born out of a sea faring family that lived on an island called Minorca off of Spain. Jorge emigrated to America in 1776 and was in the revolutionary war before James was born. James mother, Elizabeth died in 1808 when James was at the immature age of seven.
* Calley was reported to have dragged dozens of people, including young children, into a ditch before executing them with a machine gun. Not a single shot was fired against the men of Charlie Company at My Lai. Date: March 16, 1968 Place: My Lai, South Vietnam * The My Lai hamlet, part of the village of Son My, was located in Quang Ngai province, which was believed to be a stronghold of the National Liberation Front or Viet Cong and was a frequent target of U.S. and South Vietnamese bombing attacks. Casualties: It is believed, but not confirmed, that around 500 women, children, and elderly civilians were killed. Notes: * Viewed as one of the most infamous events of the Vietnam War.
The Dangers of Carrying a Gun In 1985, about 31,600 people were killed with guns, and perhaps another 130,000 people suffered nonfatal gunshot wounds. However, the majority of the deaths, 55%, were suicides, rather than criminal homicides. Only 37% were homicides, 5% were fatal gun accidents, and 1.5% each were due to legal intervention (police officers killing suspects in the line of duty) and to death where it was undetermined whether the injury was intentionally or accidentally inflicted. Moreover, among all deaths due to "external cause,"( i.e. accident, suicide or homicide) a gun was involved in 22% of them, handguns in about 13% of them.
The genocide of Darfur is regarded as the only genocide of the 21st century. The genocide started in 2003 and since then has claimed over 400,000 lives and displaced over two million. The Sudanese government supported an Arab militia group called the Janjaweed who began the process of ethnic cleansing on the civilians of Darfur. This is included starvation, rape, and murder. The intent of this was to eradicate an entire people.
millions of Jews lost their lives and that is not including all those other millions of people who didn’t fit into what Hitler believed were pure breed. According to the article The Holocaust “It lasted 12 years. In 1933, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party gained power in Germany, some 9 million Jewish people lived in Europe. By 1945, when Hitler's regime was defeated, two of every three of those people had been murdered. From old people to tiny infants, all were killed for no reason other than they were Jews”.
Bonnie smuggled him a gun and helped him escape (Barrow 1). Upon his recapture, he was jailed for two years. Bonnie and Clyde evolved from their small crimes to “nationally known bank robbers and murderers” (Barrow 1). Their gang was believed responsible for killing thirteen people including two police men plus several robberies and burglaries and assorted kidnapping, abduction, and injuries (Barrow 1). One day Clyde and Bonnie were driving down a back road near their hideout at Bienville Parish, Louisiana; officers led by captain Frank
Guns are Never the Culprit The Newton Elementary School massacre was the second deadliest shooting in U.S. history and one of the deadliest around the world. Adam Lanza, armed with a power rifle, killed a total of 27 people including himself; seven adults, one being his own mother, and 20 children in an act that is still not explained to this day (Press, 2012). There have been many attempts to try and explain the actions of this disturbed individual and what would drive someone to commit such a hideous act; the main reason people are citing that this happened is lack of gun control. Other murder or suicides that have taken place over the years involving guns have struck up debate over whether or not citizens should be able to own guns;
Millions of innocent people are killed every year due to this violence. In the last 4 years, 35,000 people have died in the drug war and many more will die because police resources aren’t being used