Was it, or was it not?

On October 22, 2013 another young boy's life was ended and cut short. In Santa Rosa, Calif., 13 year old Andy Lopez was shot and killed by a deputy that mistook the boy for a man trying to raise fire on his partner and him. This all happened in an open field . The boy was apparently walking to his friend's house carrying the toy gun and when deputies arrived they asked him to put the gun down. The boy, then, tried to walk over to the police officers. One of the deputies fired seven shots to the boy ending his life. Another toy gun was recovered from him. Whit this case, some people say that it is similar to the Trayvon Martin case. People say that they violated the boys civil rights. The deputy was to jumpy because he instantly reacted. This deputy was very skilled and he knew how to tell a real gun from a toy gun. The case is under investigation. Was it, or was it not that they violated the boy's civil rights? I feel like they were using extremely to much force and taking it way too seriously. If Andy was going to attempt something; then they could have shot him at least two or three times. He was not right for shooting that boy seven times. Something does not seem right. Police hardly shoot people that many times. He had to have seen something in the boy that they did not like and they decided to take the life of that boy. I just think that he had a right to shoot them, but only if the boy was harming him in a way and I do not think that seven shots was necessary.

What A Waste of Time

Angry people protesting against government shutdown

Is there really a need for a government shutdown? Did it really have to reach this point? All the shutdown has done was create drama and enraged people. Peoples' lives are being affect by this and the two parties, Democratic and Republicans, can not come up with some type of an agreement that would end the shutdown. What this shutdown is doing to people is making them act out in a way that they would not do. For Example: A woman, who was being treated for postpartum distress, led police on a chase to the capital of Washington. In the back seat of her car was her toddler child. Shots were being fired from both sides. The results of the chase was not a good one. The woman died, but her toddler was not injured. So you can see what kind of an effect this has on people. Who would this affect? Well, it would affect all the families out there, our government, as well as our country. Export and Import with other countries would cost a lot more than it would have cost. As of today the government has been shut down for 17 days and everyday that it stays closed it would cost the government about $1.6 billion a week, $300 million a day, or $12.5 million an hour. On October 17, 2013 with The Senate voting 81-18 in favor of the measure, while the House voting 285-144 in favor;the government shutdown ended.