Assignment #4 Will Shapiro

The Sandy Hook shootings will (hopefully) always be remembered as the most violent school shooting in history. We will always remember the 20 kids and 6 adult staff members that died at the hands of some crazy freak who, only ten days before Christmas, robbed many family members of their loved ones. This event came as a shock to the American public and especially to the area of Newtown, Connecticut whose last homicide happened 10 years prior. In the picture above there is a family clearly grieving over their lost daughter. This feeling was shared by many family members involved along with millions who heard about it on the news. As a result of the tragic event, the school amped up security, and a major movement against the more dangerous/lethal firearms was born. Alternatively, it also sparked debate whether or not teachers should have guns in the school for protection. That just sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, but because I have two brothers in elementary school around the age of the victims in the shooting the whole ordeal just left me astounded anyone could find it in them to go kill so many people. even though in the last assignment I said that there was no pure evil and everything was relative, I think that this may get a special category of pure evilness.