Pulse Nightclub Shooting Research Paper

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For my informative speech, I will be talking about the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016. The shooting was one of the deadliest in modern U.S. history, leaving 49 lives lost and 53 other people injured. Pulse is a gay nightclub and so the shooting had a particularly bad impact on the queer community. The main source I use for my speech is National Public Radio (NPR). The article is called "3 Hours in Orlando: Piecing Together An Attack And Its Aftermath" by Ariel Zambelich and Alyson Hurt and it was posted just two weeks after the shooting took place. The first shots were fired shortly after 2 a.m., a SWAT team was called around 2:20 a.m., and around 2:35 a.m., the shooter made the first of several 911 calls. The shooter was later
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