Tag / aurora
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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…
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Gun Control is Out of Control
The July 20th shooting in Aurora, Colorado left the country stunned. James Holmes, a dropout Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado, entered a movie theater wearing riot gear and armed with with military grade assault weapons and high capacity magazines. He left 12 dead and 59 injured. All of these weapons and equipment were…
