This year has had a big impact on me for a variety of reasons. School being one of the reasons, but also everything that has been happening in society and the world today. Today’s generation and our society today has changed drastically from what it used to be years ago. Our kids today are being affected by our world the most, because a lot of what happens, happens to our kids, or in the schools the kids go to. This year, 2018, there has been 22 school shootings since January, and tons of bullying
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Lately, all that people across the United States seem to be hearing about are all the recent school shootings that have occurred, and it is no surprise; so far there has been 23 school shootings in the United States this year alone, and we are only 21 weeks into the year! (Ahmed 1) Now, there are disputes everywhere as to what schools should do to ensure the safety of their students; these precautionary ideas range from schools investing in better security systems, to making tighter gun laws, to
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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
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In his political documentary, “Bowling for Columbine” filmmaker Michael Moore says that fear-mongering perpetuated by American media is what supplies our endemic gun violence. Moore supports this argument by providing expert testimony of how the media attempts to make the audience fear whatever they are covering that night, citing research, citing statistics of how many guns murders that America has opposed to other major developed countries, and sharing personal anecdotes of things such as Canadians
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The issue whether teachers should be permitted to carry guns in schools has been a huge controversial topic for some time now but it has become more talked about since larger school shootings have taken place, such as the Sandy Hook tragedy. The Sandy Hook tragedy cost us the life of 5 educators and 20 children. So the question is what is my opinion on whether teachers should carry guns in school, and the answer is I am against teachers being allowed to have open carry weapons on school grounds in
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Case Study: Adam Lanza This paper aims to study the background and motivations for the violent act committed by Adam Lanza on December 14, 2012 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. That day, Lanza, who was 20 years old, shot 20 children and six adults before he killed himself and after shooting his own mother (Stanglin & Bello, 2014). According to the Office of the Child Advocate report (2014), Adam Lazan shot his mother four times with a riffle. Later, he went to Sandy Hook Elementary School and
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Columbine, one of the worst school shooting ever in the United States. Sandy Hooks, one of the most recent mass school shootings. Both school shootings, equally terrible, can be blamed for violent video games, like most school shootings. But are video games at fault for these horrific events? No, they are not, in all cases, is is mental health or parenting, not video games. There was shooting where the shooter claimed he spent hours honing his skills on Call of Duty, well let’s take a look at video
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The “Mass Shooting Generation” is rising up, making sure its voice is heard over the screams of all those who are trying to oppress it. The recent mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida was a trigger. A trigger to release the anger that had been trapped inside millions of hearts for an unbearable amount of time. Based on many opinions, including ones of my own, I think it is important to listen to and understand the voices of this generation. The students that attend schools where
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on a $2million dollar bond on count of first- degree murder and also three counts of aggravated assaults. One man, author David Hilshafer, wrote “The Mass Murder Problem,” published in 2013 in the Skeptic Magazine, and he argues that while these massacres are happening not many people are prepared on how to stop them from happening. Hilshafer begins to build his credibility with personal facts and reputable sources, citing convincing facts and statistics, and by attempting to employ to emotional appeal
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Gun violence in america has took a rapid increase in the past five years there has been two hundred and ninety school shooting since 2013 and seventeen of them has been in 2018 there are many people that say that sandy hook was the schools shooting that started all of the recent shooting because it gave all the kids that were feeling abused and mistreated a idea how to get revenge even if it was to take people's lives which was wrong because nobody deserves to lose their life. But the school shooters
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