Citizens and politicians across the country believe that putting guns in classrooms will solve the issue of school shootings. That by putting the object that is causing this issue into the hands of someone who is not able to handle a gun adequately will stop the shootings from happening. The teachers for whom it is legal to carry guns are usually undereducated about using the weapon in a crisis. By putting guns in classrooms, administrators are making it that much easier for a gun related incident
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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
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The endless battle of good and evil is seen everyday, not just with God and Satan or with feuding countries, but with man. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the town of Salem, Massachusetts is facing the dilemma of good vs. evil. Repeatedly, because of the mass hysteria, people of Salem are falsely accused of witchcraft. Unfortunately, with the feud between good and evil, it may seem that evil is winning as one innocent person after the next is persecuted, but we also see the power of the martyrdom
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At the beginning of my research, I was determined to find a solution to all the street shootings that were happening around the Phoenix area. After narrowing my research question and basing it off my major in secondary education, I decided to incline more towards the protection of schools from rage shootings. I inclined to the protection of schools because in my first semester of college, I met new people who have suffered from this issue either by experiencing it personally or having heard about
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Zoey's Fear On a Saturday morning, in the summer breeze, there was Zoey. Zoey has brown curly hair, blue eyes and tan skin. She is only 5 years old and she has a pit bull that is a puppy. Zoey just lives with her mom because her dad died in the Navy. She has a best friend named Susan, living next door and they play almost everyday. Zoey lives in a beautiful neighborhood near the beach and she would go to the beach, but she has a fear. Zoey loves the colors blue and purple. Zoey went over to Susan's
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In the United States, over a thousand children have been shot dead in 2018 alone. Twenty American schools have been tainted with blood and bullets. America's youth are terrified of going to school because the one kid in English is 'weird'. Civilians can purchase firearms used in the military for whatever purpose. A gun built for shooting down an army of men is available to whoever. Yes, mental health regulations exist – but how seriously are we taking it? The answer should be obvious. Imagine
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Introduction Section On December 14th 2012, a fatal shooting occurred, the lives of twenty children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school were taken within minutes. Though he does not deserve any attention, the man that took these innocent lives was named Adam Lanza and he was just twenty years old at the time of the shooting. The children of Sandy Hook Elementary school were only in the first grade, and their lives came to a tragic end. I chose to talk about this event because I think
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However, a few years before this, a school shooting in the United Kingdom had a very different outcome than the shootings in America. In 1996, Thomas Hamilton killed sixteen students at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, UK. After the Dunblane Massacre, the government responded to the peoples campaigns to pass sufficient laws and risked negative impacts on the economy to go as far as they could in preventing similar
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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
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One Solution to a Complex Problem As society has changed, the standards in the United States have evolved into something they were not a hundred years ago. Guns, once a common utility in an average American home, have become one of the most controversial subjects today. The rate of mass shootings, according to Harvard research, has tripled since 2011. This has led to the question between the leaders of our country, “How do we prevent school shooting incidents?”. School shootings are becoming a commonplace
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