A student by the name of Jamar Siler shot a fifteen year old boy named Ryan McDonald on Thursday at Central High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. The shooting started around 8:00 A.M. in the school cafeteria. Ryan was a sophomore who was living with his grandmother. He was diagnosed with alopecia at the age of 3. Alopecia is a condition in which you lost your hair.
Comments:
In my opinion, Ryan has really lived a difficult life and it sucks to hear that this happened to him. I would agree with the statement his uncle made when he said he was dealt some bad cards in his life. He had alopecia which made him the target for many kids to pick on him. He didn't have his parents because he was living with his grandmother. Then, he is shot by another kid because that kid chose to take his aggression out on Ryan. This shows that you are still at risk of being killed, even in school. This article has also proven to me that there are other people out there that I have it worse in their lives. This unfortunate incident also shows that gun control laws aren't being enforced as well as they should be because kids continue to manage to get guns on campus and end up shooting innocent people. This reminds me of the Virginia Tech shooting and how we as a country viewed the second amendment in an entirely different perspective after that event.
Questions:
The questions I pose in this article is, what was Jamar's motivation for shooting Ryan? Why are we using guns as a solution for our aggression and other problems?
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