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Emotions aside, does banning guns make sense?

Erica MacLure, Contributing Writer Mar 19, 2018

“Ban guns” -- sounds like the right thing to do, doesn’t it? I can understand the thought, but would encourage you to think about the big picture. I ask you this: what are the true implications of banning guns? One is you’re banning guns from responsible people. Responsible citizens who use...

5 Things We Can Do to Prevent School Shootings

5 Things We Can Do to Prevent School Shootings

John Vassiliou, Staff Writer Mar 7, 2018

Over two weeks ago, we all watched in horror as over a dozen students in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were gunned down by a ruthless murderer, who I cannot in polite context begin to describe in this article. Families’ lives were forever changed and kids forever shocked as the effects of...

WA students react to Parkland school shooting

WA students react to Parkland school shooting

Oliver Davey, Staff Writer Feb 18, 2018

On Wednesday, February 14th at approximately 2:30 P.M. Nikolas Cruz opened fire inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He killed 17 people, some teachers, some students and injured 15. The nation, including many members of the WA community is still grieving the loss. Dean...

Gun Control: Firearms require regulation on a federal level

Gun Control: Firearms require regulation on a federal level

Mehul Shrivastava, Features Editor Oct 23, 2017

Gun regulation has been a popular and controversial subject in America ever since incidents such as mass shootings and police brutality started to become more common. After the tragic shooting in Las Vegas that killed almost sixty people and injured close to five hundred, people are having increasingly...

Opinion: be proactive not reactive

Opinion: be proactive not reactive

Kai-Lou Yue, Editor-In-Chief Oct 9, 2015

  In the light of the recent school shootings across the country, the public is clamoring for preventatives to the issue, one of which is stricter gun control, mainly increasing the difficulty of obtaining a gun. However, most mass-shooters appear completely normal to others until the moment...

Fifteen mass murders have occurred at the hands of firearms in the US over the past thirty years.

Call for reform on gun control

Mar 6, 2013

By Kyle Auger Sports Editor Sixty-one. In the past thirty years, there have been sixty-one mass murders with guns in the United States. Of the twenty-five worst mass shootings of the last fifty years, fifteen of them were on American soil; the second place nation had two. If those numbers do...

A bullet in our rights

A bullet in our rights

Mar 6, 2013

By Abby Cianciolo Photography Editor    We’ve heard our parents and grandparents say it time and time again, that the world is a much different place from when they were growing up. After the events at Sandy Hook Elementary, it can be seen that this has never been more true. What is not...