...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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...certain types of violent crimes such as murder, property crime, and even mass shootings. The decline in these types of crime is due to rational behavior of criminals as a group and their fear of being shot by an armed citizen. Because most criminals fear being shot, the carrying of concealed weapons also produces a protective shield for individuals who do not carry firearms due to the fact that impending attackers would not be able to determine who is armed and who is not. Permitting private citizens to carry concealed firearms in a gun free zone is the most cost-effective way to fight these types of crimes. Connecticut is the home of one of the worst school shootings ever to have occurred in history. On December 14, 2012 Adam Lanza shot twenty children and six adults killing them all in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The first two to confront Adam were principal, Dawn Hochsprung, and school psychologist, Mary Sherlach (Taylor & Francis Online), they were quickly shot down by the gunman. It is widely believed that if either of the two had been trained with a weapon for self-defense and were permitted to carry a gun on school property then they could have saved twenty-six lives including that of twenty elementary students. By the words of Oklahoma senator Ralph Shortey "Taking a restrictive approach to our Second Amendment rights would be the worst possible decision. Allowing teachers and administrators with concealed-carry permits the ability to have weapons...
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...Gun Control Research Paper In 2018 there have been 30 mass shootings in the united states, with the most recent and second most deadly in florida at stoneman high school which claimed 17 victims and many more injured. Nicholas Cruz a 19 year old former student of the school walked into the highschool, after he pulled the fire alarm and reacted like a student at the school panicked and ran out the building. The gunman then started firing shots at students, Then entered the school and shot up 17 students. People need to have information on these statistics because there have been too many shootings in the recent years, and no body has taken action until the parkland shooting. As a student attending a college i believe there should be way more...
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...How many students and teachers die every year by school shooters? If teachers have a gun in the classroom, or in their possession, would there be less deaths? “Colorado school district will allow teachers to carry guns (nypost.com/2016/12/15).” If someone walked into a school with a gun, how many people will die before the cops arrive? The answer is one to many. If teachers had guns, they can protect their class, and themselves. “In Colorado Springs it takes law enforcement an average of 20 minutes to get to the school (nypost.com/2016/12/15).” Twenty minutes that is a long time to wait for the cops. Some school even have cops in the school at all times, but should teachers have guns on them? Yes, how is one cop going to protect the whole school? In the past, there have been many school shooting, and even more deaths. So how are the schools going to learn from the past, and look into the future. “In 2016 there were 35 school shooting that resulted in death(abc15.com/news/state).” So how are the...
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...That’s why I am running for US Congress. I’m calling on Congress to stop talking past each other and try something new. Empower schools and teachers with non-lethal self-defense tools, like this can of pepper spray.” He then picked up a small canister of pepper spray and held it up to the camera. “Pepper spray doesn’t cost much, and it can be safely stored in a 'break-glass-in-case-of-emergency' cabinet, but it’s powerful and it won’t accidentally kill a kid,” he added, noting, “trust me, this will stop anyone in their tracks.” To support his ludicrous assertion that pepper spray will keep children safer than firearms during a school shooting, the democratic candidate then had someone use the can of pepper spray on the face for several seconds. Upon doing so, a disclaimer, which stated, “this is dangerous, do not attempt,” appeared at the bottom of the video as if he were one of the lunatics from Jackass. After having his eyes doused in pepper spray, he then rushed over to a tank of soapy water and dunked his end in. “It’s incredibly painful and now I just can’t see anything!” exclaimed Tillemann. “Wow. That’s intense. It’s...
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...or even earlier, whereas others do not appear until adolescence. Some involve the family, others the neighborhood, the school, or the peer group. Some become less important as a person matures. Somewhat informative but not sure if I want to use this source. Alexander Volokh with Lisa Snell. School Violence Prevention: Strategies to Keep Schools Safe. www.rppi.org/ps234.html. This site addresses that school violence is a serious problem, especially in public schools. Improving the quality of American education is difficult without also addressing school violence, since regardless of how good the teachers or curriculum are, violence makes it difficult for students to learn. School violence wears many faces. It includes gang activity, locker thefts, bullying and intimidation, gun use, assault—just about anything that produces a victim. Violence is perpetrated against students, teachers, and staff, and ranges from intentional vendettas to accidental killings of bystanders. Often, discussions of school violence are lumped together with discussions of school discipline generally, as both involve questions of how to maintain order in a school. This is a well informed site. Monica Davey and Jodi Wilgoren. Signs of Danger were missed in a Troubled Teenager’s Life. 24 Mar. 2005. www.nytimes.com .Some who knew Jeff...
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...School shootings are rare, yet every time one occurs, it reveals the disturbing vulnerability of schools and universities to acts of violence. These shootings not only make the parents feel unsafe sending their children off to school but also causes political debate. This topic has ignited a dispute over gun violence, zero tolerance policies, and gun control. The Controversial topic has created a main attention grabber for satirists. A satirist is a writer who uses politics or everyday issues and writes about them in a jokingly way. There are two ways a Satirist can write, Horation and juvanalian. Horation is more humorous and juvanalian abrasive. In this essay, the examples I have provided are all Horation. Bolton, Reiss, And Schormal use the ample tools of exaggeration and mockery; However, Borowitz and Luckavich use more of the parody and pathos types of elements to address the problems of school shootings across America. First, Satirist Cole Bolton discusses the topic of school shootings using exaggeration. Exaggeration is an assertion that makes something...
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...Gunning for Control In recent days, months and years, our world has witnessed some unthinkable events of violence slaughter and death. Whether it be school shootings, racially and hate fuelled attacks or plagues of terrorism, there is never a time when we switch on the news and don’t hear of another distressing account of annihilation. Who or what are the culprits? No-one knows for sure. But a main factor in America’s case is guns. Since the Dunblane massacre of 16 innocent primary school children along with 1 teacher and the perpetrator himself of March 1996, shock resonated throughout the United Kingdom. The result: a ripple of gun control movements across the UK which led to a tightening of our gun laws and accessibility. Since then,...
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...Los Angeles Times, over four million assault weapons were owned in America in 2013 (Whitefield). In 1994, following a large pattern of shootings, the Clinton Administration banned the manufacture and importation of the deadliest assault rifles (“The Clinton Administration’s Law Enforcement Strategy: Fighting Gun Violence and Keeping Guns Away From Criminals and Our Children”). After a successful run, the Law expired in 2004 and was not renewed by the Congress (“Laws On High Capacity Magazines”). For about nine years people were allowed to buy these previously banned guns, until the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. In the year of 2013, Congress adopted the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. The law is not quite as effective as the previous; banning assault weapons only with military feature such as “threaded barrels” and a “second pistol grip” ("Assault Weapons Ban Summary”). The law does not prohibit assault rifles which were “lawfully possessed” by the date the bill was enacted (“Assault Rifles Ban Summary). So all of the four million guns owned before the bill was passed are still legal and are not allowed to be collected by the government. A 2013, Mother Jones mass shooting study resulted in the finding that across fourteen of the mass shootings they analyzed, twenty assault rifles were at least one of the perpetrators weapons (“More Than Half of Mass Shooters Used Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Magazines”). If the government would have made the possession of any assault rifle illegal...
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...Columbine Shooting I do not think that Marilyn Manson’s music had a direct effect on the tragedy at Columbine. It was reported that the shooters of that massacre didn’t even listen to his music. The shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had been planning the shooting for a while. Eric Harris was posting information on how to make bombs on his website and made threats towards students and teachers, he even went as far as making a hit list of people he wanted to kill. Prior to the shootings the two teens were already having troubles with the law. They were arrested for stealing supplies out of a work van. Their mental health was questionable as both of them ended up going to anger management classes. Harris also went to a therapist for about a year. These things would have been happening regardless of Marilyn Manson’s music. Manson uses freedom of speech to the fullest and does have a huge following of loyal fans. Most of these fans are angry and confused teens. Manson goes to extremes to express himself. He uses satanic images and themes of rebellion and death. His music is no doubt dark and creepy but it does not encourage acts of violence. Thousands of teens have followed him for years and have shown no aggression. On the other hand, Manson feels the media is used to manipulate the mind and takes over changing our own values such as religion. He makes this statement in relation to that in his music, “God is in the T.V.”(Rock is dead) It is the negative attention he got...
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...Research Proposal, Draft 1 It’s the morning of December 15, 2012, a day after the Sandy Hook Elementary Shootings involving twenty-year old Adam Lanza. After having to support by brother through the intense fear of being looked at differently for his disability following the shooting, I found the topic of the media scapegoating Asperger Syndrome as a main factor in school violence relevant to our class. As school violence has grown in the past twenty-five years, the media has similarly sensationalized the many killers, often times looking to diagnose them with some sort of mental illness instead of digging deeper into the environment of the individuals who commit these acts of violence. In particular, I am interested in examining the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as the UC-Santa Barbara shooting. What I am particularly interested in learning more about is the media’s reaction to these two shootings in conjunction, as one was done at an elementary school with children ages 5-11, whereas the other was done on a college campus. This interests me because Asperger Syndrome is a social disorder, and the social scene of an elementary school is quite different from the social scene of a university. By providing statistical data, victim and killer testimonials, and historical data, I will make the main claim that the media has sensationalized school shootings and too often jumped to the conclusion that Asperger Syndrome is to blame, instead of investigating the...
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...purpose at all, other than to harm innocent individuals. Although there are gun restrictions in California; an individual must complete a safety and handling course, be a legal citizen of the United States, and pass a thorough background check; including a fingerprint check. On occasion, it is still possible to obtain an illegal weapon through the black market; therefore, it is easy to buy an unregistered and untraceable gun, which can lead to detrimental effects. The Constitution is the foundation for laws and social norms for the United States. In the second amendment, it 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." Nevertheless, the Constitution can be interpreted in many different ways. Although the Constitution permits the “right to bear Arms” a certain level of control is necessary in order to keep peace and stray away from anarchy and chaos. Unfortunately, it has become very easy for people to obtain weapons of mass destruction and preventative action must happen through the thorough background checks. In spite of this controversy, each state is allowed to make it’s own restrictions involving assault weapons, and handguns, etc. Some people debate over how the word militia can be interpreted as gun possession must be restricted to members of the militia, not civilians. California is a “may-issue” state, which means that if...
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...Concealed Carry Helps Protect the Nation Why would a person want to carry a gun around with them while going about their daily routines? A 2001 study done by Tom smith at the NORC found that 59% of people carry weapons with them while away from home, simply because it makes them feel safer and they achieve a sense of security. Though this is not a big surprise, since there is little other reason for concealed carry to even take place. Now people ask does it actually make you safer, and in fact yes it does. Concealed carry not only has dropped rates of domestic violence by the thousands, but has also managed to have a large effect on the frequencies of mass shootings and the overall safety of the person in charge of the hidden weapon. In addition to this, it also helps to deter crime as a whole....
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...Introduction Section On December 14th 2012, a fatal shooting occurred, the lives of twenty children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school were taken within minutes. Though he does not deserve any attention, the man that took these innocent lives was named Adam Lanza and he was just twenty years old at the time of the shooting. The children of Sandy Hook Elementary school were only in the first grade, and their lives came to a tragic end. I chose to talk about this event because I think that it is important to remember these victims, who were not old enough to have any chance to defend themselves or hardly begin their lives. As well as the fact that in 2012 I was in high school, and had cousins in Elementary school, it was so frightening...
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...robust industries in the entertainment world. Video game sales have more than quadrupled in this time as well, which accounts for this multibillion dollar industry. Inside this enormous industry, hundreds of genres span the base of the industry but a few genres make up the core. Within this core are game categories, such as FPS (First Person Shooters), which have some aspect of violence to it. The popularity of these violent video games has risen greatly within the last 5 years. In 2008, from the age group 12-17 in the United States, 97% of them played video games, and 10 of the top 20 best-selling video games in the United States contained violence (ProCon.com). These violent video games are attributed to the cause of increase in school shootings as well as increases in domestic and youth violence. Critics of these violent video games argue that the because the violence is encouraged to do well in the game through reward, that the player becomes desensitized towards the violence and will teach children that violence is an acceptable way to resolve conflicts (ProCon.com). Video game advocates claim that the research is deeply flawed because there has been no link between video game violence and that of social violence. Many argue that the game actually relieves anger and aggression in a safe outlet (ProCon.com), as well as it keeps kids occupied and off the streets and out of danger. With all the new consoles and mobile platforms, as well as the price being in a stable and affordable...
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