On March 5, 2010, John Patrick Bedell walked into the pentagon opening fire on two officers shooting and injuring one. Other officers quickly ran out to help the injured officer and opened fire on Bedell. Bedell was shot twice and taken to the hospital where he later died. This was completely unexpected and shocked many people.
This has caused many people to believe that things like this can be prevented. But the question is, how could it be prevented? They say that more could have been done to prevent it, for example, look at all of his video’s on the popular site you tube. The shooter’s parents warned people about him and told officials that he was considered “dangerous”. Everything was there, it was just the fact that no one thought that the guy would snap and gun down a government guard.
Things like this really can not be prevented. There is no possible way (unless someone gives you an exact date) to tell when some one is going to commit a crime. Everything is unexpected and random. Yes, the guy was considered dangerous, but this does not mean, “Hey watch out he’s going to open fire on the pentagon”. I’m not saying that what the guy said was ok, I’m saying that people need to realize that what he did could not be prevented.
This article applies to what we have been going over in class when it comes to creating a “defendable argument”. The local news stations were the ones claiming that this crime could be prevented and in my opinion it could not be. We do not have the time, people, or money to hire people to look over everyone in the United States to prevent things like this. It is impossible. Anyone who would even believe that it was preventable has no idea how much work would have to be put forth for that.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35716821/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2010/03/06/simon.pentagon.shooter.cnn?hpt=C2
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