...Guns Are Not the Problem, People Are Violence in school environments have become a major issue, and there are many precautions we can take to prevent this violence. Precautions such as better background checks before purchasing a gun will greatly decrease deaths due to gun violence. In America, the average number of school shootings is approximately 1.37 per week (Davies). There are too many lives lost throughout the year to gun violence. It is time for America to step it up when addressing the flaws in the laws and regulations in the systems. Seeing that gun violence in school environments have recently become such an issue, the United States must address these issues head on by enforcing more and existing laws and change the laws that contain imperfections. Gun violence has not only spread throughout the United States but also in many other countries as well. On an average day in America, there are at least ninety-six deaths resulting from gun violence (Guns). Every day, seven teens and children from ages zero to nineteen die due to gun violence. This means that four out of...
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...Case Study Stephanie Ochs Liberty University Psyc 210-D01 In this particular case a six year-old child brought a gun to school and shot one of his classmates. As a result, the child’s 19-year-old brother was charged with involuntary manslaughter. There can be many different situations that accumulated and led to the young boy shooting his classmate. Some of the reasons that could have led the boy to such a drastic action include guided participation, emotional regulation, reactive aggression and abuse. The law states that a child under seven is considered not criminally responsible, therefore, based on evidence discovered by police, the older brother was charged with the crime, Young children learn from others, mainly their caregivers and their peers. Kathleen Berger (2011), author of The Developing Person Through the Life Span, defines guided participation as, “the process by which people learn from others who guide their experiences and explorations (p. 241).” Parents are children’s main example; they set an example for their children to follow through their life. In this case, the little boy may have parents who have not demonstrated the best lifestyle to their child, leading him to believe that drastic behavior is how people get what they want. The little boy may have potentially witnessed his older brother threaten or even shoot someone because he did not get his way. The little boy might have thought that retaliation in that manor is how you get what you want. ...
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...For the year of 2018, there has been multiple school shooting across the U.S with many resulting in both the death of students and faculty members. The most recent shooting in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida has caused society to protest and speak out towards the advocating of reforming gun- control laws. Alfonso Calderon, a survivor of the attack, took a stance willing to drop out of school if it will benefit the motion of furthering the cause of gun control: “Everybody needs to remember, we are just children. A lot of people think that disqualifies us from even having an opinion on this sort of matter…This matters to me more than anything else in my entire life. And I want everybody to know, personally, I’m prepared...
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...Arming Teachers Throughout the recent years gun violence has been on the rise, particularly gun violence on school campuses. Unfortunately, within the recent years to present day, there has been an increase of shooting at colleges, high schools, and even elementary schools. Teachers’ unarmed in these dangerous situations causes a lot more deaths among students and teachers themselves. Little is being done to counteract these dangerous situations, guns should be in the hands of the teachers. If some teachers decide to OPT OUT of carrying a gun, then that teacher class should be in proximity of another teacher that is carrying a gun. Teachers that carry guns on school property should go through the proper training of shooting a gun properly, this would prevent less deaths in schools and save more lives. The statistics of school shootings are...
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...The future safety of our children There has been 74 school shooting in American since the sandy hooks shooting, that means one every week (O’Conner Molly, Carrol and Lauren). Would schools be safer if the professors or teachers carried a hand gun? Yes they would. School shooting are happening more and more. Just in the last couple of weeks there have been about three shooting at colleges where people were injured or killed. Some parents from a school in Texas think it is a bad idea because they said “the teachers are trained to teach our children not carry a gun” (Gainesville SunAug 26 2008), but others said that they felt that their children were safe with their teachers carrying a fire arm (Gainesville SunAug 26 2008). In cases like the Sandy Hook shooting, if the teachers in those class rooms would have had a gun to protect the students and themselves, then there might have been less deaths. The teachers that carry the weapons should be psych tested every six months so that authorities can know if they will endanger the children....
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... Guns, Schools and Mental Illness The above five words should never be placed into or used in a sentence together, yet, these five words are almost constantly in the news. The Second Amendment has been getting its share of attention during the last fifty years and specifically in the last twenty years. Here is where the arguments begin and end. No one can agree on the meaning of or what was intended when the amendment was actually written. The Second Amendment states, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” (Second Amendment) . This specific amendment dates back to England before Magna Carta when the Protestants were allowed to possess and carry guns although Catholics were not allowed. The interpretation of this depends on who is doing the interpreting (Second Amendment (1791)). The first school shooting happened in Greencastle, Pennsylvania in July of 1764, which killed the headmaster and either nine or ten children (School Shootings in the U.S. 1900-Present). Throughout the eighteen hundreds there were numerous school shootings. Also in the nineteen hundreds there were school shootings and America did not start the upheavals about guns and shooting children in schools until the late 1980’s or early 1990’s. In an eighteen year period from 1992 to 2010 there were a total of 240 homicides and 373 deaths attributed to school shootings (List of school shootings...
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...Our nation’s schools are expected to keep students safe; however, many students and their parents believe that unintentional injuries and outbreaks of violence can occur, causing an interruption in the student’s learning environment. According to Paul Timm, a school security expert claims that “guns and shooters are not always the dangers of school safety, instead the lack of strategies to attack such threats is the greater risk.” Many schools are improving their security by having lockdown drills, checking in visitors from outside and assigning students with Identification cards (Ids). However, students are still not safe. Researchers from Education week, believe that “gun violence in schools has increased tremendously in the past 6 years.” Each year hundreds of kids...
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...Schools are no longer a safe environment for children and teenagers in today`s world. On average, there are 13,000 deaths in the United States resulting from gun violence each year. 150,000 students have experienced a school shooting since the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, and that number continues to rise. It is obvious that something needs to change to protect children of all ages in schools, but this will not happen on its own. Everyone must get on board, students, parents, teachers, politicians, citizens, to implement better mental health care, education, and support, improved threat assessment protocol, and change gun laws and regulations. It should not be a battle to end students dying in schools; we all play a part in ending...
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...and classrooms. The bill has failed to pass on 55 separate occasions in 29 different states. Recently, however, there has been a push to legalize the concealed carrying of handguns on college campuses. If this law passed, it would only increase the risk of a shooting on campus rather than hinder it. According to the list on Wikipedia, since 2000 there have been approximately 149 school shootings in the United States alone. The majority of these aggravated rampages resulted only in injuries, many still resulted in loss of life. While the vast majority of these shootings occur in grade schools, many still occur on college campuses. While campus shooting may be far and few between, is one not enough to show that more guns is not the solution to the problem? This may be little more than a statistic to...
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...Imagine walking into school expecting to learn a new lesson, and that one day might change the rest of your life or end it. Gun violence in schools have impacted society in ways that parents start to question if their child’s school has safe protection for students. The impact of gun violence have lead people into deep depression physically, mentally, and emotionally. President Trump has come to the conclusion of allowing teachers that want to carry a gun on them throughout the day have that right to do so. Schools should not allow teachers to carry guns on them due to the amount of distractions and the lack of experience. To begin, schools allowing teachers to carry guns may cause students to feel unsafe. Firstly, schools should not allow...
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...Should teacher, administrators, and school staff carry firearm in school facility? Yes, teacher and other adult should carry firearm because there are many new threat which are approaching schools around the world. The reasons adult such as teachers should carry a firearm is because there are more school shot out, street shot out, and way to school shot out lately. School shot out impact many other students and teachers around the world. This side effect emotionally scare many people who is attending school and encourage them to not come to school. The situation may cause the literacy rate of United State to decrease. As a result, many intelligent student will end up working at a low pay jobs with a lack of knowledge. The down fall of the...
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...Violence in schools is a growing problem and depression is often used to explain why this rise in violence is happening. Abuse at home and bullying can be a root cause for depression which lead to a root cause of gun violence. The lack of help for depression can lead to worse things if not treated which could lead to gun violence. Many kids in high school especially deal with violence in school. According to Kann L, McManus T, Harris WA, et al. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, 7.8% students have been in a physical fight at school and 20.2% have been bullied on school property. (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance) Because of this, in can be concluded that depression is a root cause of school violence. Does the lack of availability to help for depression lead to an increase in school violence. Depression can't be...
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...With active shooter incidents taking place on college campuses, it is vital for colleges to allow for a concealed weapon permit holder to carry on campus not only for their protection but for the protection of others. Schools are gun free zones, which make them vulnerable and allow an opportunity of a crime to occur. (Zuegle) Time is of the essence with split second decision to be made, if colleges would allow for law abiding citizens the right to carry they could assist with detaining an active shooter before law enforcement arrives on the scene. A quick response from police officers has been proven to be inadequate. (Zuegle) Stanford Review Columnist Devon Kristine Zuegle stated according to a U.S. Secret Service study into school shootings,...
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...Americans today have been dealing with controversy over gun control due to the rise of shooting crime. The majority of today’s society is involved with crime committed by Americans who come into possession of a firearm obtained illegally and or without a proper permit. There have been many events that fall into the category of gun violence, such as; the Columbine shooting, Virginia Tech University, and the latest nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida. The guns used in these events were obtained legally by those individuals which committed these horrific acts of crime. Gun control laws in America have been increasingly relaxed in many states over the years. Public education on gun safety should be better available to our public society. Firearm...
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...A Modest Proposal: Gun Violence In Schools Over a hundred innocent lives are taken every year at the hands of shooters in school alone. National rifle association has already made the proposal to have armed officers in every American school. Makes sense right? They’ve even went so far as to request for trained teachers and administrators to be allowed carry their weapons. Something’s wrong here but I can't really … put my finger on it. To most this is a big no-no. In my opinion it just isn't enough. For some odd reason everyone refuses to acknowledge the obvious problem. Children are helpless and are completely incapable of helping themselves, well they could….. If they had their own weapons I say … let’s go all out. Give the kids guns. The youngest of our population should be the first to...
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