Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Teen thought buying a gun would be cool

A student at Upper Darby High School was accused of attempting to buy guns from another student. The buyer thought that owning a gun would be cool. The buyer was 15 years old. The seller had suffered many mental issues. A fellow student saw the stun gun and reported it immediately. After that the police were called. The police were able to get both of the weapons from each student before any violence took place. The seller stole the weapons from their family members. The Superintendent advised all the parents of the students to lock up all their weapons in the house. A counselor will be at the school on Tuesday for anyone who needs to talk. I think that the buyer and the seller were made a very stupid decision to exchange a weapon in school. It is not cool to own a gun unless you have a license to have one. The seller needs to stop selling weapons to other people that he doesn't even own. And especially not on school grounds. They both made a very immature decision. I also think the school needs to have medal detectors to prevent situations like these.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A holiday i s coming up and it's Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is on November 24th. Thanksgiving originated from the Pilgrims’ three-day feast celebrated in early November of 1621.The first Thanksgiving to God … in Plymouth Colony was actually celebrated during the summer of 1623, when the colonists declared a Thanksgiving holiday after their crops were saved by much-needed rainfall. After 1815…there were no further annual proclamations of Thanksgiving until the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln declared November 26, 1863, the last Thursday in November, a Day of Thanksgiving. Then Roosevelt signed a resolution returning Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November, as Congress in 1941 permanently set the fourth Thursday of each November as our national day of Thanksgiving. Now Thanksgiving is a well known holiday. On Thanksgiving you have a big meal and all of your family attends. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because you get to eat lots of food and spend time with your family. It's a day to especially give thanks for what you have.