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When will the violence end?


Shootings, gun violence, bomb threats The three main subjects that lies on the table at this very second Sixteen mass shootings has happened in the United States In just the year 2012 This has become the most notorious year ever When will the violence end? Oakland, Colorado, Wisconsin, New York, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Connecticut Have all experienced what we all can never feel The people have let 62 innocent lives be taken off of this earth When will the violence end? Sitting there watching a YouTube video and a commercial comes on Celebrities trying to convince us to do something But they can stand there and look us dead in the eye when they haven’t done a single thing But received their pay for doing their “cause” Acts like this don’t get taken seriously When will the violence end? Their gun violence laws should have been in check when the first shooting happened. 1999 Columbine, two teenage boys took the lives of twelve school mates and one teacher But I guess it just has to take for one man with one gun to kill 26 people for others to finally stand up and say something about it. But what have we done We've prayed, yes. Worn t-shirts, for those not to forget, yes. Made memorials, to remember the lost. Those things that we have done may comport us for the time being, but what about the long run It has taken literally thirteen years for people to come and say something When will the violence end? At my school, at my home at my church, we call those places safe. But are they really. My friend terrified to go to school, because she thinks that if someone can shoot 20 six and seven years old Point blank without remorse. What do you think they would do to us? Were not safe anymore. Terrified to sleep next to a window because a bullet my fly through it and hit you. Scared to go to school, because a bomb may go off at any second Scared to go to school, because a fire alarm may go off at any second Walking us outside, is like walking us to our grave stone/sight Scared to go to school, because a wild person may lock us in an auditorium and kill us all at one time When will the violence end? (I don’t think it will).
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