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A couple of days ago both journalism classes had a group discussion. Mr.Miller made a Google Slideshow called “72 hours of hell”.  That was a very good title. Last week was tragic for too many people. From the Kroger shooting, to the package bombs, and lastly the Synagogue shooting in Pennsylvania. We really needed to talk about this.


Mr.Miller went over stuff that we as regular citizens should do.  We openly talked about these terrible acts and heard many opinions on the topic. I comment I heard specifically was “ These terrible acts are happening from both sides of the aisle”, but that's simply not true. When in last 10 years have you  seen any leftist do something to this degree? I bet your answer was “no” . We talked on how we should watch out for ourselves and overall be more aware.

I think in today's society we need to change the way we think. These crazed people were  racist, Anti-semitic , hated all minorities. Maybe mental health was a problem, but that's no excuse to go shooting up people for no reason. We must take a really good action to prevent this ever happening again. One we actually talked about in class, gun control. Gun control would have probably stopped at least one of these from happening. I think that we again need to take action like now. There is no other optio

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