February+24

=__Samantha Jones__=

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__Topic: Shooting At School in Colorado__
__Scope: National__

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A teacher stopped a 32 year old man from shooting fleeing kids from a school in Denver, Colorado. He, with the help of another teacher, kept the man on the ground until the police came. The man, afterward identified as Buco Strongeagle Eastwood. David Benke, a teacher at the Deer Creek Middle School noticed that a suspicious man was on the premises. As the man started shooting at students, Benke sprinted towards Eastwood, tackling him to the ground after he had shot two grade 8 students, one a girl, and one a boy. They were hospitalized. The girl, Reagan Weber, was treated and released from the Littleton Adventist Hospital. The boy, Mathew Thieu, however, was in serious condition at the Children's Hospital. His mother reported that he was recovering from a fractured rib and a lung injury. Bruco Eastwood was charged with two accounts of attempted first-degree murder. He appeared in court by a video link from jail after being caught by the police.

If he does not post bond (the bond being 1 million dollars), the court decided that he would have no contact with any person under 18, be monitored by GPS, must seek mental health treatment, and cannot posses any alcohol or illegal substances or firearms. The next court session will be on March 2nd.

__3. Reaction to the Article__ I think that this is really disturbing. I mean, you always hear about bad people around the world, doing bad things, but this just really gets at me. This man just tried to kill two innocent kids, barely younger than ourselves, two kids who had never harmed him or done him wrong. This man just walked up to a school and got the insane thought “Oh, I think I'm just going to go to a school and start killing innocent kids. Sounds like a plan.” These pysicopaths have no reason to do these horrible things, and yet it keeps happening. The only reason Eastwood didn't shoot more innocent kids is because our teachers really care for us and our well being. I think it's wrong to decide to suddenly end people's lives. Can you imagine, being in grade eight, when everything is hard enough as it is, and have someone SHOOT you? I don't think so.

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=__Kelly Kooner__=

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__Summary__

 * On Tuesday, the U.S.A presendent of Toyta in Washington answered some tough questions and said, the company's massive recalls might "not totally" solve the problems the company is having with the unintended acceleration of some of its most popular vehicles. The President & Chief Operating Officer, James Lentz, defended the company's actions while also agreeing that the problems are far from over. "In recent months, we have not lived up to the high standards our customers and the public have come to expect from Toyota," he said. James Lentz insisted that the sudden recalls of the millions of vehicles was not due to electronic problems, as some critics have said so. Bart Stupak, the Democratic Representative of Toyota, say's that Toyota did everything but ingnore their consumers pleas examine sudden unintended acceleration events. But the most shocking moment might have been when Lentz acknowledged that the massive recall might not completely resolve acceleration problems.**

**__Reactoion to the Article__**

 * I think what they did was not a very smart thing to do. I think that they should have of tested out their cars and trucks more before selling, and putting them up on the market first. Since they cannot undo what they did and they have to do recalls, I think they should give something back to their custumers who had to deal with their messed up cars and now them making recalls. They should give them free oil changes or discounts for in the future for them buying new cars, just to show they are actually sorry and to gain their coustumers trust back.**

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