Something Needs to Happen...But What?

        As you open any newspaper, from these past couple of days, the first thing you come across is an article detailing the shooting that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut, such as this article. Each and every article highlight the awful fact that twenty-six people were shot, twenty of which were children. As horrid as this incident is, worldwide school and mass shootings are not that uncommon. According to this timeline, there has been seventy-eight school and mass shootings since 1996. I was shocked by this number because you would think that after even two or three shootings, Congress would have done something to try and prevent these events from occurring again.

Now, I understand that it is trickery than it sounds. There is an ongoing debate over the pros and cons of gun control, one main reason being the second amendment, the right to bare arms, more reasons can be found here. However, if these mass shootings continue to occur, which they most likely will, something obviously needs to be done. What do you think is the best option to help ensure these shootings are not likely to continue to happen? Do you think the cons for gun control out way the pros enough to drastically change the second amendment?

Is It the Excitement?

This weekend I went to the Bull's game and noticed how everytime a fight was about to erupt on the court, the crowd would go wild and begin to roar, shouting "Fight, fight, fight!" I would always be puzzled to why people were encouraging them to fight, when you know it was just going to turn out badly. I than read Mr. Bolos's blog and I became more intrigued about American's love for dangerous sports. As such, I decided to compare the top ten most popular sports to the top ten most dangerous sports. Not to my surprise, the lists were almost identical.
                           
                           
This didn't surprise me because most Americans love the action that comes with the violent sports, I mean I also find it exciting myself. However, why else do you think most Americans enjoy seeing when players get into fights? Or why the most popular sports in America are very similar to the most dangerous sports in America?

AOS of Going to College

     Sunday morning I woke up and walked down into the kitchen. As I looked on to the counter I saw the New York Times opened to an article titled, "Saying No to College". Even being only half awake, I was intrigued by the title. As such, I began reading the article. The whole article basically addressed the negative aspects of college, and how "college [can] put a lot of constraints, a lot of limitations around what you can and can't do". After reading the entire article I was a bit distraught about the whole thing. I grew up learning that going to college is always the best way to go. However, listening to more of Williams's, the author,  arguments, I became more open-minded. I found her examples to be the most persuasive, like how she explains that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, both very successful people, dropped out of college and agreed that it was one of their better decisions to not finish four years of college.
 
         I looked at this article as addressing the other side, or AOS as we are accustomed to, to going to college. Although, while Williams had some good arguments, I was not convinced. I still believe that college is a good choice, well for me that is. And, I would also argue that a majority of Americans would seem to agree with me. Now, I am not trying to argue that going to college is the better choice. I would actually say that the better choice is the one that you believe will allow you to seek out the best opportunities and experiences. As such, if this is the case, than why do you think Americans feel that college is always the best option, even if some would be better off not going, like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates?