If you have been keeping up with the news aggregate catch-all site 'Google News' lately, you will notice an uptick in what's "becoming the norm" as President Obama recently put it: school shootings. I know I've noticed it. And it got me wondering just how many school shootings have taken place lately? Feels more and more like an everyday, or at least every week occurrence lately.
Since I am currently living on the Big Island of Hawaii, in Hilo about a mile from bay front, I thought I would put my time to use (while hunkered down) blogging about a first hand account with Hurricane's Iselle and Julio. I plan to do this blog like an updating journal entry. Laws that have broad bi-partisan support come few and far between, but the GI Bill that was passed in 1944 is one of those few bills that will bring together both the most ardently conservative and die hard liberal because it was a law designed to thank those who made the ultimate sacrifice in serving our country. Folklore has said the moon cycles have a large role in humans and animals sleep methods and quality. With the next full moon approaching July 12th, I wonder how many people this will actually affect. There have been some very interesting studies done before, during, and just after full moon cycles that show this folklore to actually hold great weight. A 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck near Los Angeles early Monday morning, waking a lot of people up earlier than usual but not causing any immediate reports of major damages or injuries. While millions of Californians are breathing a collective sigh of relief, it is only a matter of time before the next big earthquake hits California. The Australian Open for tennis has happened every year since it's inception back in 1905. And it's just like any other sporting event in the sense that headlines typically read very generic: So and so wins big. Upset in the making. Underdog prevails! The streak continues.. and so on and so forth. But this year, that's not really where the story was at.
School Shootings News & Opinion Articles |  | Thu Nov 20, 2014 | nbcnews.com
A gunman was fatally shot by police after opening fire in a library at Florida State University early Thursday, sending... |
|  | Fri Oct 24, 2014 | cnn.com
At least two students were injured when a gunman opened fire Friday morning at a high school in Marysville, Washington,... |
|  | Tue Sep 30, 2014 | cbsnews.com
One student was injured and one person was being sought after a shooting at a high school in southern Louisville, polic... |
|  | Tue Sep 30, 2014 | chicagotribune.com
An argument between two male students outside a North Carolina high school Tuesday ended with one of them shooting the... |
|  | Wed Jun 11, 2014 | cnn.com
CNN examines the claim by Everytown for Gun Safety that there have been 74 school shootings since Newtown. |
|  | Tue Jun 10, 2014 | myfox8.com
One student and the suspected gunman are both confirmed dead in a high school shooting near Portland, Oregon, Tuesday m... |
|  | Tue Jun 10, 2014 | talkingpointsmemo.com
President Obama on Tuesday slammed the failure to curb gun violence in the United States.
"My biggest frustration s... |
|  | Fri Jan 24, 2014 | cbsnews.com
The father of the gunman in the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings has met with a Connecticut official and agreed to... |
|  | Fri Jan 24, 2014 | latimes.com
Every day this week a shooting, lockdown or scare jolted five campuses across the nation. |
|  | Thu Jan 23, 2014 | billmoyers.com
Last year was supposed to be a year of action to curb gun violence in our schools. But three weeks into the new year, s... |
School Shootings Videos |  | Wed Jun 11, 2014
Tuesday's shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Ore. is the 74th school shooting... |
|  | Tue Jun 10, 2014
A gunman has died after opening fire in Reynolds High Schoo, in the northern Oregon city... |
|  | Thu Jun 05, 2014
One person is dead and others are injured when a shooter opened fire on the campus of Sea... |
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