Current Event of September 26, 2014
From Chicago Tribune
Yesterday, there was an attack on two women in an Oklahoma food distribution warehouse made allegedly by a man named Alton Nolen. Of the two victims, one was beheaded and the other was stabbed repeatedly with a knife. The latter is currently recovering in the hospital. The suspect of this crime worked for the company but was fired right before the attack took place. Nolen went into a fit of rage and attacked at random. When other workers were interviewed about Nolen, they said that he had tried to convert them all to Islam. Nolen was shot by a police officer and is expected to live. His criminal history was nonviolent previous to the attack and the only crimes he had committed were drug related.
Violence has been a huge issue faced by the American public in the recent years. In most cases, the instrument of crime has been guns. The federal government and the states have been battling over the issue of gun control and the second amendment for a long time now. One of the arguments for gun control is that guns stimulate violence in people and lead to terrible occurrences. But, when one looks at the recent attack in Oklahoma, there is an obvious discrepancy. Nolen killed and maimed another with only a knife. That does not mean that guns are not to blame for horrible events that have taken place, because they are. When America faces the issue of violence, however, they can not rule out other causes like the human psyche. If the nation is to address crime as a whole, it can not stop with gun control.
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