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
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School safety is a major issue right now. Some say that Schools need to have better safety measures, some say the violence that has occurred in schools would wide is due that mental health illnesses and some say it is because of gun control. These violent acts would have never happened if there wasn’t a gun involved. Guns are dangerously powerful weapons of mass destruction that take lives. Lives are not something you can get back, once your dead your dead and that’s why America need gun control
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The debate of whether violence is an innate or acquired behaviour has been increasing since these past years due to the appalling events -terrorist attacks and gender-based violence- society has been part of. Some scientists claim that violence is an innate behaviour, but what made a man enter a school and choke his daughter’s teacher till death was not an instinctive reaction but a premeditated action. So, what leads people to act violently? In most of the cases, people who commit a crime were either
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The author and filmmaker, Michael Moore, insists he wants to be taken seriously as he challenges America’s gun culture with his documentary ‘Bowling for Columbine’. Bowling for Columbine was released in 2002 and addresses an issue that still exists today, seemingly more in the U.S. The film involves a mix of tongue-in-cheek interviews as well as confrontational interviews with celebrities as he attempts to deceive the audience with false statements and inaccurate data to persuade the audience.
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On April 20th, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris murdered many of their teachers and classmates at Columbine High School. No one knows exactly what drove these two teenage boys to such horrific violence and many have asked that question over the past few years. Some say it was bullying and that they just took it to heart, but from studies, it was mainly because Eric was a psychopath and Dylan was depressed. Dylan Klebold was a very angry kid, and Eric Harris was fuel to the fire. Eric calmed
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Circumstances of the Episode The morning of Friday December 14, 2012 claimed the “deadliest mass shooting” ( wiki) in a high school or lower level institution and the second worst mass shooting that the United States had encountered throughout history following Virginia Tech (NBC/ WASHINGTON). The most heartbreaking side to the occurrence was the fact that it took place in Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School; a place full of innocent angels that would have to face horrific scenes and undergo
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hot topic to cover. In several instances, the shooters have plead for insanity in argument that they were not sane at the time of the massacre and could not identify what was wrong from right. These pleas have become a fall-back argument for some of the pseudocommandos, and in doing so, a select few were found guilty of murder, but the consequences of the massacres committed were eased. In the end, after the school rampages, or SR’s, were committed, the true ethics of the treatment of the shooters
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Mass shootings affect America every year with innocent lives lost and many people injured. Since 2000 there has been fourteen mass shootings and many of them happened on school grounds. For example, on April 16, 2007 a student named Seung-Hi Cho from Virginia Tech University killed thirty-two students and faculty members and injured seventeen. If at the time, carrying a concealed firearm on campus was legal Seung-Hi could have been stopped before he hurt so many people.The new Bill eleven states
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American sniper is about a decorated sniper who had achieved the highest kill rate in us history to date. I’m going to discus the differences between the book and movie. In the movie it showed him shooting an enemy sniper for his longest shot of more than 2,000 yards, but in the book it reads as he kills an enemy with a RPG at that range. The book discusses more about the internal conflict of him being gone all the time. This time apart put also talks about him growing up in a religious family and
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School Shootings School Shootings are very serious and happen more than they should. There have been 142 school shootings in the United States since the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. People should be taught how to avoid school shooters. Not just turn off the light and lock the door in the classroom. The number of mass shootings increases each decade. School Shootings can decrease by Improving school Security, Cutting down on violence in the media, and doing something about gun free zones. The first
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