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
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Are schools slowly caring less and less about the children’s protection while they're walking down the halls or playing outside at recess? Do you think schools should have cameras and fences located in and out of the school, just in case a kidnap happens or someone breaks into the school. You would want all the children to be safe wouldn’t you? If all schools had fences how much more safe do you think the children would be? If there are not a fence and there are a toddler in recess and they go walking
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Between October 1997 and may 1999 there were seven mass shooting in schools. Perhaps the most infamous of the seven occurred in Littleton, CO performed by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They killed 13 individuals and wounded 24 at Columbine High School. (Kleck, Mass Shootings in Schools, The worst Possible Case for Gun Control) Some gun related patterns that are found because of these seven shootings are, 5 out of the 7 mass shootings had multiple guns. Because they had multiple guns they did not
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as he held onto his wound. Before he reached safety, he looked back over his shoulder at the gunmen. His eyes were so large, and filled with pure terror and pain.” (Citation Needed). This is an account from a survivor of the Columbine High School massacre. The account shows just how horrific school shootings really are. They have been a topic of much discussion in the past few months. School shootings are a problem because their deadlyness, their effect on academic performance, and the psychological
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Running head: SERIAL KILLER PAPER Serial Killer Paper: The Columbine Tragedy Carsyn Ehlinger DMACC Abstract The Columbine Massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 20th, 1999, in Littleton, Colorado. Shooters Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold killed 13 in what was then the biggest school shooting. The Columbine massacre is a topic of interest because it was one of the first heavily reported mass shootings, and had been handled poorly by law enforcement. Today Columbine
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Are we being censored in America? Today we have to be careful what we say because someone will take it the wrong way and be offended. In America, we have the right to say what we want, but to what cost? People don’t have the right to tell them what is okay to say and what is not. Where are the boundaries for what we say? This is where social media and laws don’t help us today. Wounds and wars are beginning because of something someone said. Does social media help us? Today, most everyone
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wedge it down, when he started getting weaker the other 17 people pushed on the door and the shooters gave up and went another route. On July 20th 2010 Samuel's friend Alex Teves was shot and killed at the "Dark Night" showing. Samuel now speaks for Massacre survivors and says they need counseling to be available. He's now working on a columbine documentary about the
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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
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The mass shootings have been crazy in the last few years. It seems like every time we get comfortable with sending kids to school another one happens. But are we doing all we can to keep kids safe in school? Is there a solution? I’m only sixteen years old. I don’t have child. But I have a little sister, and to think that my little sister goes to school everyday completely helpless really frightens me. I think I would feel much better about her going to school if the teachers had guns to protect
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Mass shootings throughout the U.S. is increasing at a rapid rate, but why? Almost 2 people everyday die because of mass shootings. In this year alone there have already been over 70 mass shootings in the U.S. resulting in 125 dead and over 140 have been critically injured. This is a very debated topic in the government today, and what can they do to reduce how frequent these attacks occur. The increase in these mass shootings can be linked to the lack of effective security measures and easy access
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