The Kent State Massacre, May 4 1970, saw a peaceful protest by students turn violent when the National Guard was called in to disperse the protest. The National Guard shot and killed 4 students. They also shot bystanders – it led to a greater number of
It involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard, who fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced on television April 30, 1970. Other students who were shot had just been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance. There was an emotional national response to the shootings. For example, hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students.
Anything Can Happen April 20, 1999 is a day that will forever live in infamy. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, walked into Columbine High School after a failed bomb attempt and shot and killed thirteen people while wounding more than twenty others before turning the gun on themselves. Eight years later, Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, opened fire on campus, leaving thirty-two people dead and several others injured. The most recently known and horrifying school shooting comes from Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty year old, Adam Lanza, walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and shot twenty- six people-- 20 students and six adults.
She states, “A 7-year-old girl is beheaded. The Driver of the car is crushed to death. I think too many people think about drunk driving crashes, or accidents as people like to call them, as, you know, driving off the road. Or rolling through a red light. These crimes are incredibly violent.” Rice charged Heidgen with murder by depraved indifference, because he acted
These are only some the cases that are being reported and are reflected through the hate crime stats for 2010 and 2011. In 2008 there was a drastic and tragic turn in the LGBTQ community. Matthew Shepard a 21 year old gay student at the University of Wyoming was killed for being gay. Shepard (2014), “The horrific events that took place shortly after midnight on October 7, 1998 went against everything Matthew embodied”. This young man was tied to a wooden fence and brutally beat and left to die.
The Vietnam War (1954-1975), commonly referred to as “Americas longest war” (however, no longer true to this day), was one of the most poignant wars in American history. For about fifteen years, North Vietnam (Democratic), fought against the American-supported South Vietnam (Republic). The US withdrew troops out of the war in early 1973; however the Vietnamese continued fighting for an additional two years, eventually leading up to the dwindling of South Vietnam under the hand of the North. The US failed to achieve their objective of securing the North from falling under the rule of a communist government. A nation familiar to victory underwent their first major defeat, which would haunt the lives of Americans for centuries I was privileged
They have been treated very poorly and have and victims of many violent crimes. For example, France in 2006, their government declared that Jehovah witnesses were dangerous people. Therefore, they went to 71 of their kingdom halls used firebombs, shot them down and vandalized them. In India of the same year people went house to house brutally beating Jehovah witnesses with fence posts. The peoples who did this never were charged, however, they Jehovah witnesses were charged with inciting the violence.
Between 1960 and 1973, 503,926 members of the US armed forces deserted. Many soldiers began to question the morality of the war once they began fighting in Vietnam. One soldier, Keith Franklin, wrote a letter that was only to be opened on his death. He was killed on May 12, 1970: "If you are reading this letter, you will never see me again, the reason being that if you are reading this I have died. The question is whether or not my death has been in vain.
The Gun Violence Communication and critical thinking Immediately after the massacre of the 20 children and six adult in Newtown on December 14, 2012 there were public uproars for genuine gun control. American’s were shocked by the horror of the incident. Unfortunately, this was not the only gun violence that happen last year, but a series of waves of gun violence that took the lives of incident people around the country, in which Sandy hook elementary in Newton, Conn incident was properly the worst of all if not the most horrific gun tragedy. Although large portions of the population consider a new gun laws the answer to the accelerating violence;
Incarcerations can also have a major impact on the community. Thus, this form of punishment can affect everyone around the punished women. Incarceration of women with children is a very large percentage that has a huge impact on their family. 1.3 million Women are convicted primarily on drug crimes. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world since 2000, and 52% are parents.