Three other students were injured. Lane was arrested when he was standing near his car parked near the school, and was charged as an adult with murder, attempted murder, and firearms offenses. In March 2013, he was sentenced to three life sentences without the possibility of parole ("List of School Shooting in the United States", 2014).” On December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. “Adam Lanza, aged 20, killed 26 people and himself at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns and driving to the school.
*On NBC.COM it was said that a 2 year boy found a gun underneath his parent’s bed and began to play around with it*. Moments after this his parents then hear a gun shot and rush upstairs to where it heard. There they found out that the boy had accidentally shot himself in the head with the gun. The parent’s next reaction was to rush the boy to the nearest hospital where he later died 2 hours after the incident. *Time and time again we hear devastating news about accidental child shootings*, gang re*la*ted shootings or even a school shooting.
He and others like Gabrielle Giffords are even bringing the parents of the children who were lost in Sandy Hook to make tearful pleas to pass the amendment. Gabrielle Giffords is yet another example that proves my theory. She was shot in the head by Jared Lee Loughner in 2011 in the middle of a constituent meeting she held. Loughner was expelled from college for disruptive behavior and was showing many signs of mental distress prior to the shooting. So much so that his parents disabled his car at night and took his shot gun away from him.
In the book, Tom Klebold said that his son, Dylan, suffered from being an outcast at his school, and that might have led to his participation in the massacre. The book also describes an arrest of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold that took place the year before they went on a rampage. In that incident, previously reported in the media, the two teenagers were caught stealing equipment from a van, but authorities released the boys to their parents' custody, instead of keeping them in jail, and put them in a diversion program. Tom Klebold said that on the day after the arrest, he went for a walk with his son and found the boy to be angry and feeling his actions was somehow justified. "The morality of the whole thing escaped him," Tom Klebold said in the book.
On November 20th, 2012, at around 6:45 A.M., Lourdes Guzman-Dejesus, a thirteen year old student who was on the way to school on a private transportation bus, was fatally shot by another student on her bus. [1] His name is Jordyn Alexander Howe, 15. The boy had apparently obtained a loaded .40 caliber handgun from his very own home and took it with him on the ride to school where he accidentally let off a shot that hit Lourdes in the neck. Jordyn’s family stated that they were unaware that gun was missing until they were contacted by police officials. This scenario could have been avoided had his parents taken the necessary precautions to make sure the weapon was unaccessible to their child.
"I saw two shadows moving quickly away from the center of the park at about 2:45AM. From the shapes, I could tell immediately that they were young males." A witness (wanting to remain anonymous) told to police in the morning, only a few hours after the murder. Only a day after the crime was reported, the TPD announced that the victim's name was Robert "Bob" Sheldon, an 18-year-old senior that attended Oklahoma High School. One of Sheldon's friends offered to share some insight on what he was like.
Informed of the incident two days later, Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, began looking for Emmett Till. They found him at 2 a.m. the morning of August 28, 1955 at his uncle's cabin. Entering the cabin with flashlights and Colt 45 pistols, they carried Emmett away, "To teach
It was May of 2006, when two youth tragedies took place, in Southern Florida. On the last day of school in Palm Beach county, a 13 year old boy pulled out a .25 caliber pistol from his backpack, pointed it at his English teacher and shot him to death. Only a few weeks earlier in a neighboring county a 12 year old boy, literally body-slammed a 6 year to death. Suddenly two school-age children were charged with murder in an adult court system. And what seemed to make newspapers locally, is happening all over the US.
He was later convicted of killing a thirteen year old boy. Then there is Freddie whose life consisted of violence like shooting a girl with a BB gun hitting a rival gang member in the head with a hammer and selling crack. The Juvenile Court judge said that his mother could not control him and he was placed in the Audy House. The list goes on and on so that after a while the faces become blurred for the people working at the Audy House. While dealing with Chicago's Juvenile Court system, Ayers always has to compare the contrast to his own children lives .His son who had just turned sixteen,has opened birthday cards and presents,basketball, video games,gift certificates,clothes and a trip to get his drivers license.
There are many stories of people who have defended themselves with the use of guns. There was a particular family of six who had been stalked for fifteen years by an individual. That individual kicked in the back door of the family’s residence and attempted to kill them after he had killed four others that same night. The man who lived in the residence was able to hit the attacker in the chest with one round which detoured him from continuing the act. If this man had not of had that firearm when he did him his wife and his four children would have been slaughtered that night.