...great increase in the amount of threats and school shootings in the United States. Many people think to themselves, “This would never happen to me or in my area.” I used to think this way until the day my school received a threat that a teenager was planning to shoot up the school. The entire school was in a frenzy. Students leaving school, an increase in the number of police officers at the school, and having that thought that whispers in your ear, “Will this be my last day on Earth? Will I ever get to see my family and friends again?” These were some of the thoughts that ran through my mind when I heard about the threat. People never truly realize how scary and real something is until it happens to them. In the first article, “No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in...
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...just to name a few of the deadliest school shootings in the past 20 years. Safety measures and precautions have been recently set in place to prevent massacres in the future from being a yearly occurrence. April 20, 1999 has a spot in history as one of the most tragic days in US. History. At approximately 11: 20 am, two fellow students of Columbine High School entered with the attempt to kill, destroy, and to attack on everyone in sight. As of November 30, 2012, there was 456 children enrolled in kindergarten through fourth grade at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The school's security protocols had recently been upgraded, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review by video monitor. Doors to the school...
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...last attack on US soil by a foreign terrorist was December 11, 2017. Moreover, just at the starting of 2018, there was six school shootings in January alone for our own American people. Muslims should not be the blame for terrorist attacks on our homeland because as a country we’ve been attacked more by our own people. Most Muslims or Islam’s coming into our country are looked at as terrorists based on their religion. Many Americans blame current attacks on them because of the 9/11 attack. Espionage and Intelligence wrote, “Islamist extremists had given plenty of warning that they meant to kill Americans indiscriminately and in large numbers.” In December of 2016, more than 41% of Americans believed that Islam’s are likely to be violent and that has to do with their faith. In addition more than 50% of Americans think most of the Muslims in America are “anti-american”. Most middle eastern people face more discrimination than people of color. 39% of “our people” think the...
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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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...As stated on thinkprogress.org, ABC News reported thirty-one school shootings in the United States since Columbine in 1999, where thirteen innocent people were massacred. Allowing professionally trained security guards to possess the right to carry firearms will drastically reduce the amount of deaths in similar situations, including those of children and teenagers. With the use of their firearms, security guards have a higher probability of being able to offer protection for the students and faculty. Although many opposers argue that the current precautions (such as cameras and alert systems) are enough to protect students across the nation, these tactics will only offer the student awareness instead of safety, which will result in them being...
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...article "Kentucky school shooting: 2 students killed, 18 injured" by Holly Yan, Anne Claire Stapleton and Paul P. Murphy from CNN informs us about another high school shooting. It occurred on January 23, 2018 at Marshall County High School. The suspect entered the school at 8:57 a.m. ET and started shooting. Two students were killed and 18 other people were injured when a fifteen-year old opened fired with a handgun. The fifteen-year old was arrested at the scene, and was charged with two counts of murder and twelve counts of first degree assault. The majority of the students called their parents to tell them about the situation. Parents said their children told them the location of the shooting. Junior Taylor Droke and a friend were running late and...
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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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...At this day and age there are school shootings everywhere and with the wright measures taken this can stop. School shootings is a serious problem in the u.s today and little has been done. Their have been countless school shootings in the past few years that have broken apart families and devastated towns and cities. Because of the recent school shootings police should be present at schools, police should carry guns with them around school, and tough measures should be taken. First, police should be present at schools. Police should be at schools because if they are not there who is there to protect them from a shooter. The article Stronger security measures will make schools safer, by Juvenile Crime, says “Recent shifts in school violence are driving administrators in even the safest of schools and communities to realize that ,it could happen here (Crime).” This means that people are starting to realize that school shootings can happen at any school at any time. In the same article by Juvenile Crime, it says “The sad reality is that nobody can offer a 100 percent guarantee that a violent or serious security-related incident will not occur in their school (Crime).” This shows that even with security guards and police no one can...
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...Weeks ago there was a school shooting in Parkland Florida, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Schuster 1.)That shooting brought out demands for gun reform laws and change, from students across the nation. For example, students across the country walked out of schools on Wednesday, March 14, to honor and remember the 17 dead, for 17 minutes(Schuster 1.) This is going to follow up by a walk on Washington called“, March For Our Lives” on March 24 (Schuster 2.) With all the attention that this movement is causing, it has the nation divided once again. People are wondering if guns are the issue or if mental health and bullying is the issue. On February 14, 2018, a shooting in Parkland Florida created a movement (Schuster 1.) A man named Nikolas Cruz would kill 17 high school students, and wounded 16 others (Kirby 1) From this movement the issue of school shootings arrived. Everyone has an opinion, and people are split on how to tackle and eliminate mass shootings. Some say guns are to blame while others are saying mental health and bullying issues are to be blamed....
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...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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...about 23 school shooting in 2018 alone. That is a huge problem. There are several ways that we can prevent more from happening. I am going to contact my local Representive John Moolenaar on https://moolenaar.house.gov/ . Certain teachers in schools could carry a concealed gun. School campuses should have police officers. In addition, all entrances should be secured and have metal detectors. I believe that certain teachers should carry a gun. 172 school districts in Texas allow staff and/or board members to carry firearms on school premises (Beatriz.1). And out of the 172 school’s districts there has been no school shootings. If the schools where the shootings has occurred, if the teachers would have had guns there would have...
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...School shootings have been a big issue this past year. We all heard about the parkland shooting which made a huge impact and opened a lot of people’s eyes. We had a recent school shooting in parkland Florida. A fellow student shot up school. The police had various tips but never followed up on it. This student has a record of violent acts. The police got many reports from various people even one person close to the student stated “That (students name) had a desire to kill people and worried about the potential of him conducting a school shooting.” – (rose 2). Police officers and FBI never tool the hints. Another famous school shooting was the columbine high school shooting. These 2 teens “committed the killings because they were members of a group of social outcasts called the trench-coat mafia that was fascinated by Goth culture.”...
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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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...Since 1980 there have been 137 fatal school shootings and 297 lives were lost to these unnecessary acts of violence. In the United States, the threat of school shootings has been an increasing danger to students and teachers alike. Even on July 26, 1764, four Lenape American Indians came into a school and killed the schoolmaster and nine or ten children, this is known as the Enoch Brown school massacre and was a notorious part of Pontiac’s rebellion. The more recent shootings such as Columbine and Virginia Tech a majority of those victims were students. Many of the victims cannot rely on police in the beginning of these attacks, the average shooting lasts around 12 minutes but average police response time is 18 Minutes. Teachers should be able to carry concealed weapons because armed teachers and staff can decrease the threats of school shootings, intruders on campus, and respond to threats faster than the time it takes police officers to respond. The police are effective in handling these threats but the response time can take too long, with school staff members armed with concealed weapons they can stabilize the situation before the police arrive. Carrying a concealed weapons could escalate the confrontation and...
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...On April 20th 1999 Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 innocent people and injured 24! It was soon known as one of the worth school shootings in the U.S history. Patrick Ireland was one of the most known survivors, he was shot twice in the head and once in his right foot and he also had a laceration on his inner elbow. He laid there in and out of consciousness for about two hours tried getting up but he was shot and didn't realize it, until he scooted across to the window and the SWAT team caught. Although he doesn't remember coming through the window he told the ambulance that the perpetrators were wearing masks because he was really confused. He graduated in May of 2000 and is now currently working as a Financial Representative, is married and has a daughter named Kennedy. He received a $117,500 settlement with Jefferson county. Makai Hall, he was with Patrick Ireland when Patrick took a shot for Hall in the head and was knocked unconscious. Hall pretended to be dead and Eric Harris then threw a C02 bomb where Makai, Patrick and Dan were under a table, that landed on Dan Steepleton’s thigh. Makai then grabbed it and the it. It exploded in mid air. He told CNN that he knew Dylan and that they worked on a few projects together. He also said Dylan...
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