1 years later, the aftermath of 'the shooting', based on a true story.

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1 ½ years later, the aftermath of ‘the shooting’, based on a true story

It started off as a normal school day; I arrived late to school, at 8:50 am, and was shouted at by Mrs Robinson. The date was 23rd June 2000. I was in Year 8 at the time. I went to the first 2 lessons as usual, and then it was break. I went into the form room to find virtually the whole class gathered around John Smith, a fellow pupil in my form.

He had a very sophisticated looking BB gun in his hand. It fired little round, coloured pellets. He was showing off this gun to everyone, firing pellets at distant objects or out of the window. The gun was a pistol, non-automatic. It was amazingly powerful though; it could easily break glass at close range, and smash windows. This gun was a Desert Eagle. The bullets it fired went so fast, that you only saw them once they’d hit something. He had also brought another BB gun, except this one was a semi-automatic M16 sub-machine gun. It could unload a whole magazine of these little round, coloured pellets in a matter of seconds.

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Another boy, Herbert Jenkins, picked up this gun, and without any caution, shouted at me across the form room, “You’d better run Abhishek,” He smiled menacingly, pointing this M16 gun at me. I tried to dodge the continuous reign of pellets, as he unloaded the whole magazine of 36 pellets at me. I got caught and tried to protect myself under the thick, padded protection provided by my blazer. I barely felt a thing, as it was capacity and not power that counted for this gun. Everyone stood shocked and people laughed at me as tried to dodge the ...

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