...According to Everyone in the U.S In 2018 there have been more or less than 18 on campus school shootings. There have been multiple school shootings but, there are very different such as sucidal, not during school hours, and during school hours. This being a real isuure some people think school shooting are not a issue on the other side of people some thing that gun violence is not under control. There are different situations during a school shooting. There is susdial stiuations where a young teenager kills him or herself on school grounds either durring or not during school hours. In 18 of those school shooting there were about 2 of thoes were sucidal. In one artical byJohn Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich, it says “On the afternoon of Jan. 3, a 31-year-old man who had parked outside a Michigan elementary school called police to say he was armed and suicidal.” this is an event where the cause of one man could have caused muilte people to get ingured....
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...From 2020 to 2024 the number of mass shootings has gone up 8%. Within one year there have been more than 630 mass killings, meaning on average almost two shootings happen daily. Medical professionals have found many reasons for the start of mass killings. Though many believe these factors are myths, due to research it has been shown that bullying, social media, and mental illness are the main potential causes of mass killings. Over many years of research, bullying is one of the top reasons behind mass killings. Medical professionals state that most killers have one thing in common, they are most often seen as stress, depression, or frustration for years. It is also seen as bullying or harassment and being ignored within a school or a place...
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...system. The growing number of mass shootings in the United States has begun to heavily impact American morale causing panic and fear to spread across the country. The upsurge of shootings in public places has captured media coverage and is generating the perception that public shootings are an irreversible consequence of freedom. However, how can America idly sit by and not enact drastic measures to battle against these atrocious actions? What is the true cause and purpose behind the enactment of violence through gunplay in a school atmosphere? These questions must be resolved in order to prevent unfortunate events such as the Red Lake...
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...survivor of the Columbine High School massacre. The account shows just how horrific school shootings really are. They have been a topic of much discussion in the past few months. School shootings are a problem because their deadlyness, their effect on academic performance, and the psychological problems that they cause. School shootings are becoming undeniably more deadly. In the last 20 years, a fairly steady amount of school shootings have been occurring each year however, the casualty count is what is rising. So far in 2018, 32 people have been shot and killed in school shootings and 67 people have been injured. (edweek) That number has already surpassed the 14 deaths and 41 injuries in all of 2017. (my list) School shootings are not just a problem for their victims, they are also a problem for the survivors. Can you imagine having to come back to a...
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...Today is January 25, 2018, and there have been eleven school shootings in 2018. How can we live in a world where school shootings are almost normal? "Researchers and gun control advocates say that since 2013, they have logged school shootings at a rate of about one a week." A school is a place of innocence, it is where children go to get an education. Parents, guardians, families, entrust the schools and the government to keep their children safe. How is can the schools protect us if our government won't take the necessary measures to do so. If our government will not put restrictions on gun laws, then how can we ever hope to be safe. There have been 50 school shootings this academic year alone and eleven school shootings in 2018 so far. That...
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...According, to news report at least 17 people met their death at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Nikolas Cruz 19-year-old boy. The accused shooter expelled without specific reason according to the disciplinary (Christensen). The shooting caused debates about which could sound like the cause of the steeply rising mass killings in the USA. Most politicians and citizens want to tie the mass killings to people with a mental crisis. Although other large countries such as India and Europe, share the same figures of mentally unstable people but have very low incidents of school-shooting. The increasing rate of shootings has led to most Americans heading back to the drawing board on the regulation of gun control and gun rights in the country. Since the issues have occurred there has been more focus on why shooting is happening more frequently. Many people have started fearing the fact they could lose loved ones in a school shooting. Most Republican politicians and supporters lead by President...
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...Statistics have shown that a person would have to attend a school for 6,000 years before they would be apart of a school shooting (Bowers 1). They are very rare but still manage to happen. What would ever make a human being so crazy in the mind to burst out and kill innocent people? Recently, school shootings have become such a large issue in the United States. This affair needs to be resolved before it gets too far out of hand. On March 21, 2005, Jeffrey Weise attacked Red Lake High School (Enger 1). Before the attack, Weise shot and killed his grandfather, Daryl Lussier, and his grandfather’s girlfriend, Michelle Sigana. He then stole his grandfather’s tribal officer equipment that included: guns, a vest, and a squad car. Once he was in the school and had already opened gun fire, the police were able to corner him. He then ran into a nearby classroom and took his own life. Weise shot and killed 10 people that day, including himself (2). At the time, this shooting was considered one of the deadliest school shootings in Minnesota history. On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus (Robertson 1). When the campus police first heard about the shooting,...
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...there is virtually no proof it is the main cause of suicide in themajority of cases.People tend to equate all aggression from teens to other teens as bullying, and that issimply not true. Bullying is specifically defined as repeated behaviour, in which there is a powerimbalance. Media outlets and other places bolster the false notion of this,as they do many...
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...In Australia, they imposed the National Firearms Agreement in 1996 after a mass shooting in Tasmania. Recent statistics show that homicide in Australia has steadily been decreasing since the passage of the gun reform and is the lowest it has ever been in the last 25 years (Kiely, 2017). These regulations concerning the licensing and registration of guns directly decreased violence in the country as a whole. The stricter regulations, which made it more difficult to obtain firearms and limited the types of firearms available to the public, decreased the number of guns in circulation. The smaller number of guns in circulation decreases the potential for violence in the community. Regulations about the types of guns available for sale, also create a safer public because it bans deadly weapons that can cause massive number of deaths. This decreases the total damage if a violent act with a gun were to occur. In Australia, these changes were strict enough to reduce overall violence in the country significantly. The United States comparatively has seen an increase in gun violence recently. In 2016, about 38,658 people died because of guns, which was a 5,095 increase from 2012 (Gun Violence...
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...others were wounded in what is now referred to as the Columbine High School Massacre. As one of the first major school shootings, the Columbine High School Massacre prompted a national debate on school security. Since then, many other shootings have happened, including a recent shooting in a high school in Florida. In other words, school security has become a serious issue. Because of recent shootings and attacks, schools have continued debating on whether or not increasing the amount of security is a good idea. Security changes such as uniformed officers, cameras, and check in and out policies, are some of the things being considered. Increasing security, even though...
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...accusing the victims of the Parkland, Florida shooting as crisis actors. A crisis actor is someone who pretends to be injured during a stressful situation to make others think a crisis has occurred. The main purpose for a crisis actor is for emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to practice their skills during a crisis. In the conspiracy theory videos on YouTube they accuse victim, David Hogg, who is one of the main activist for more gun control laws, of being a crisis actor during the shooting. David counteracted these claims saying, “I’m not a crisis actor. I’m somebody who had to witness this and live...
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...School Shootings When I think of school shootings my mind immediately goes back to the Columbine High school shooting. This was the first school shooting that I was actually old enough to remember and understand. I still remember having a moment of silence for all of those involved. The New world encyclopedia states “Columbine High School shooting was one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history. On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 13 people and wounded more than 20 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The incident drew worldwide attention. It led to widespread discussion over gun control and the prevention of school violence.” (Funk & Wagnalls) According to Wikipedia from 2011 to 2015 there has been 99 school shootings including grade schools, high schools, and colleges. This is a problem that needs more national attention in my opinion in order for there to be some form of change. The killers in school shootings (mass shootings) are what we call mass murderers, they typically want to send a message. It was stated the two students in Columbine sought revenge on bullies; this shooting/bombing was meant to send the message to them. According to a few articles I read they define their personalities as, “pseudocommando” these individuals kill in public during the daytime, plan their offense well in advance, and come prepared with arsenal of weapons, very similar to that of the school shooting killers. (Knoll) According to Warnick, the children...
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...Reasons to Avoid Shooting Tragedy in Campus Gun is the most dangerous weapon in the entire world, and it causes a lot of people into bloody tragedy when someone is killed. Gun is the weapon tote by officer policemen and usually at war used by soldiers all around the world. As soon as I discuss gun with friends, everybody has the same voice that the Unites States is a value freedom and democracy country. As we known that the law of the Unites States allow citizens have right to tote a gun at home, which means that it protects us in the proper situation, but the law not allow citizens to tote gun wherever they go. However, gun is not a common weapon permitted it to used or tote by citizens at the others counties by law policy like Asian...
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...often in recent years, it seems to be primarily stemming from the Newtown Connecticut shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, dangers continue to lurk in our unprotected, unsafe school systems. Many other tragedies have stricken our school systems with danger following Newtown and certainly before. While we would all agree in regards to the topic of gun control, the one aspect up for debate is whether or not to arm our teachers and faculty in school systems. The main question is one that is touchy for most, do we want to entrust teachers we do not know to keep our kids safe armed with a firearm? We trust our children in daycare where the environment is changing constantly with frequent employment turnaround, so why not trust teachers who have recommendations for them and in some cases are subjected to background checks. Looking into the instances that have occurred over the years will show the amount of gun tragedies that have occurred and we can then see what type of impact a teacher with a gun (properly trained) could have. By not allowing teachers to be armed gives a major disadvantage if a critical situation were to arise and drastically reduces the chances of keeping our loved ones safe from danger. Growing up I was like many other young boys that were obsessed with playing cops and robbers or even cowboys and Indians, it was what we had back then to pass the time when we were not attending school. While there were many times when I was mischievous, usually getting caught, we only...
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...politicians across the country believe that putting guns in classrooms will solve the issue of school shootings. That by putting the object that is causing this issue into the hands of someone who is not able to handle a gun adequately will stop the shootings from happening. The teachers for whom it is legal to carry guns are usually undereducated about using the weapon in a crisis. By putting guns in classrooms, administrators are making it that much easier for a gun related incident to occur in school. Arming teachers has become a widely known controversial topic. Whether or not the government will agree to arm teachers is a mystery, but that does not stop parents all around the country from voicing their opinions. Having guns...
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