...Experiencing a school shooting is by far one of the worst feelings that an individual can experience. Knowing how dreadfully impactful a school shooting can be to not only a teen or child’s life, but their family, society tries to keep incidents like school shootings from occuring. In articles “Here’s How to Prevent The Next School Shooting, Experts Say,” and “No There Hasn’t Been 18 School Shootings in 2018, That number is flat wrong,” these articles thoroughly state how negatively impactful a school shooting can be in society. While one article supports this issue by sending advice on how to impede them, the other restates what a school shooting really is about; therefore, what would be considered a correctly based opinion towards these articles?...
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...Why have school shootings become a common theme and news headline in America today? Americans are faced with a crisis that needs immediate attention and action. As school shooting continue to tear a part communities and take the lives of innocent adolescents, government officials and leaders have failed to develop effective change. Countless ideas have been created by lawmakers and society, yet no major legislation has been passed. Many people how spoken out on how to solve this crisis, like current president Donald Trump. After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School shooting, Trump proposed the idea to arm teachers with guns to stop school shooters. Not only is this an unpractical and misguided idea, but it reveals the wrong approach towards...
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...School shootings are something very serious and traumatizing for many people. Not everyone has the same opinions when it comes to how to solve the issue of shooting. In the articles there is a lot of information I agree with, but also disagree with. Being affected by the occurrence of a school shooting could be something very terrifying and traumatizing for people, especially children. “Gun violence is a crisis in the United States, especially for children, and a huge number - one that needs no exaggeration - have been affected by school shootings.” (John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich. 2.) This proves that events like shootings can cause a great amount of trauma to people especially children. Another thing I agree on is making a public health...
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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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...School shootings are becoming a massive deal now and President Trump insists that arming all teachers with guns will protect the students and prevent school shootings from happening. “But if he had a firearm, he wouldn’t have had to run, he would have shot and that would have been the end of it.”, said Trump. Having a gun during that moment would’ve saved numerous lives in the Florida incident. Parents and students are terrified of having to be going to schools where any incident like the previous school shooting in Florida can happen. A father whose daughter was shot 7 times and died in the Florida school shooting incident could not repress his emotions, Andrew Porter states, “How many schools, how many children have to get shot? It stops here, with this administration and me, because I’m not going to sleep until it’s fixed.”, parents of the victims want there to be a change and want schools to become a much safer environment for kids of all ages, instead of seeing that no one's doing anything to resolve the solution. Gun violence is getting out of hand in the...
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...According to Analysis of School Shootings, The 94 school shootings occurred in 33 states across the country (2013-2014). Fifty- three percent of the shootings took place at k-12 schools and 47 percent took place on college or university campuses. Today, there are many shootings everywhere, even in schools. The reason is that students can approach weapons and drugs easily and bring them to school. The concern is that weapons and drugs can lead to worse situations like shooting or doing drugs in the school. To prevent these consequences, the Supreme Court had given permissions to public school officials, which are based on the Fourth Amendment, which is “each man’s home is his castle”, secure from unreasonable searches and seizures of property...
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...William Tubao Kaplan May 7, 2014 The issue of school shootings is important to students and should be to the general public. A school shooting involves an educational institution and a firearm being discharged at its facility. It may also refer to shootings near or on a school bus or near a school when it is in session. School shootings could occur anywhere in the world where firearms are available for access. These types of shootings in particular have generated a political dispute on stricter gun control. There are well known shootings in the United States, Europe, Canada, and other countries. The United States has the highest number of school related shootings. This paper will examine a few of those incidents and compare how the media and academic articles portray them. Overall, media articles show that coverage of school shooting events such as the ones that occurred at Virginia Tech University and Sandy Hook Elementary School tend to primarily focus on the number of victims, reactions of family, the misfortune of the event, as well as the mental state and background of the shootings. For an example, in the Los Angeles Times article “Gunman kills 20 kids, 6 adults at Connecticut elementary school”, they focus on the number of dead, imagery, and the emotion after the shooting such as parent’s reactions and children’s reactions. In the article they seem to dramatize the whole situation by saying things like “Evil visited this community today”. Although it is a tragic...
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...newspaper, there is a new report of a school shooting in America. In light of these recent shootings, there has been an influx of public uproar about the things the country needs to do to prevent the massacres from happening again. Discussions about the best way to prevent future incidents have gone past simple public debate and have headed to congress in order to change the way things are done nationwide. The discussions have ranged from whether or not to place metal detectors in the front of every entrance to whether teachers should carry weapons on them in order to have someone to defend the students. While there may be financial drawbacks to a metal detector or more guards at a school, those things do not have many obvious side effects. Thus, because of the possible repercussions, the big question in the situation is whether or not teachers should have guns in the classroom. If guns are to be put in the hands of teachers, there would be an unprecedented amount of problems that would come from this solution which is much too rash and not justified. Since the beginning of this year, there have been 47 school shootings in the United States. Couple that with the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon earlier this year, the public has turned to consider what can be done about these shootings and ways to prevent it (Mosendz). Contrary to most beliefs, school shootings are not on the rise. Even though they...
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...In 1999, two students at Columbine High School with semi-automatic weapons stormed around the campus, murdering 12 students. Eight years later, the same nightmare is relived when Seung-Hui Cho from Virginia Technical Institute shoots and kills 27 students and five faculty members. The federal government responds to these massacres by passing laws which do not prevent teenagers from acquiring deadly weapons. I believe the federal government should take more action concerning violence in schools. Some may argue that violence in schools is unpreventable; that bullying and school shootings will always be inevitable even if the government takes more action. Although this is true, the government can reduce the number of violent occurrences by passing stricter laws and enforcing them. It is the government’s responsibility to make sure that students are in check. By in check, I mean that government should strengthen school security, require schools to implement anti-bully laws just like the one in Arkansas, except on a federal level. By doing this, students would feel safer and more comfortable going to school and at school, and there would also be less school shootings like the ones at Columbine and Virginia Tech. Others may also argue that the federal government has taken steps to reduce juvenile violence in schools. On January 5, 2008, George Bush signed a law that forbids those declared convicts or mentally ill from purchasing guns. S.M. Smith, judge of the Arkansas judicial court...
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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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...Obviously, school shootings are a big subject in recent times, especially with the youth. Students all over the country are scared of going to school because it’s something that happens more often. I myself own a gun, and my house has multiple guns in a safe. Guns shouldn't be banned and won't be banned because it restricts our right to the 2nd amendment of rights to bear arms. There should be a further background check and a longer process in all the states, I know in Arizona, there are no laws or restrictions on buying a gun. The first article Here’s How to Prevent the Next School Shooting, Experts Say, explains my point exactly. The article express “If we're really talking about prevention, my perspective is that we should go for the public...
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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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...During my research over the Florida Stoneman Douglass shooting I agreed with some on-going opinion. I feel there are many ways we can help aid the prevention of school shooting but there is never going to be a way to completely stop them. During every school shooting it lasts a total of a few minutes approximately a max of 10 minutes. The first idea I agree with is School Resource Officers, which is officers that are stationed at the school armed with equipment that is carried by an officer every day. This idea I believe in my opinion is the best and most arcuate. I feel that the unemployment rate in the USA is higher then what it needs to be more so for veterans and retired police officer that are still looking for a way of income. I feel...
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...Do you trust your Government with all the violence that is going on today with differences between the police and communities around the united states? For instance, the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Mass murdering in public places. Such as, the movies where families go to have a good time. Schools should be a safe place where children go to get their education. Instead we have shootings in movies, schools and even at marathons. How can we trust a government that is letting innocent civilians die because their letting these problems happening over and over again? In that in mind I believed the government should try more to stop the violence to make a safe environment for our families. First the government should educate communities on how to cooperate better with police to help prevent problems in their community. In reality, if a black person gets stop by the white policeman they are less likely to cooperate with them rather than a black policeman. Black policeman understand how the african-americans have a history of not trusting the law, like what happen in Cleveland, Ohio. For example, A 12 year old boy named Tamir Rice was killed in November 2014 at a recreation center. Tamir was accused of point a gun at people at the park. When the...
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...The culture of weapons is the biggest reason for the US be leaders in death by firearms among developed countries. Mass shooting is defined by FBI as incidents which four or more people get shot or kill in a single event, at the same general time and location, not including the shooter. During the year of 2015, there were 372 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870 (FBI) and those numbers indicate that mass shooting events are also occurring at bigger frequency, specifically with mass public events or places, usually where the victims do not know the shooter. Those attacks are often pre-meditated with the purpose of retribution, mass-murder, terrorism, or mass-hysteria. Additionally, more than one a day is how often, on average, shootings that left people wounded or dead in the United States (Cohen, Sarah, Lafraniere and Oppel)....
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