Current Event 10/2

According to the article, “Oregon shooting: Gunman dead after college rampage”, CNN updates us on the recent college shooting in Oregon. Thursday, Oregon’s Umpqua Community College suffered 10 deaths and 7 injuries. Gunman, 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer was heavily armed and had lots of ammunition. Mercer entered the classroom and immediately shot the professor. Every student jumped to the ground. Mercer then asked all the Christians to stand and when they did, he said, “Good, because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see God in just about one second.” The shooting affects me because it questions my safety at school. It also affects me because I am a Christian. He singled out all the Christians and shot them. Because of having a community college so close to White Oak, this also makes me nervous. This is not the first school shooting ever, and more will surely come, so this makes me not feel safe at school. This affects the world because it is yet again, another school shooting. People are still recovering from the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, and people are again, broken. People are questioning changing gun laws more and more. Students and teachers don’t feel safe in their school. Some teachers even carry guns. School security will definitely tried to be changed.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/us/oregon-college-shooting/

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