a legal principle by which judges are obliged to respect the precedents established by prior decisions…
In October 1997, I heard on the radio that Luke Woodham, a sixteenyear-old, had killed two classmates and wounded seven others in a school shooting in Pearl, Mississippi. In a note, Luke declared: “I am not insane. I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day.”1 He explained that he was tired of being called a “faggot”; he was additionally enraged that his girlfriend—whom he killed in the shooting—had broken up with him. At the start of the Woodham case, I began examining school shootings. Two months after the massacre in Mississippi came a shooting in Kentucky, then one in Arkansas that same month, and then another in Arkansas three months later in March 1998. There was a shooting in Pennsylvania that April, in Tennessee…
This research by C.J. Pascoe was about the use of the word fag and its relationship to homophobia and masculinity in a high school. The term fag is used loosely throughout most high schools. The reading explains that it is used in many ways. For example, fag can be used to describe a male who is doing something that is not masculine or that is feminine. In my words the article was explaining the how the word fag is used and the different meaning it may have depending on the context and even the race of who is using the word.…
After reading the articles and watching the news and hearing others talk about this tragic topic on whether or not the schools, the parents, or media is the issue with school the conclusion is the individual is the one to blame. These individuals had many different resources and options to decide from in order to receive help yet the individuals made the choice to take the lives of innocent people. These children are aware of their consequences and have it set in their mind that there is no other way to let go of their pain but to cause misery and pain to their fellow classmates. Some will still argue that either the school or the parents or the media is the problem, but the individual is to blame because, they are aware of their consequences,…
A few things that to help prevent School Shootings but failed would be the zero tolerance policy. The zero tolerance policy is preventing drugs and weapons being brought onto school property. But many students get away with it because they bring weapons to school hidden in their backpacks without anyone noticing, then they cause a tragedy, “Schools are not safer, or more educational because of zero tolerance policies.”(Nick Gillespie 4). This policy doesn't change anything so why have this policy when no one notice who enters school with weapons. We need a stronger system to prevent this from happening.…
While some believe that school shootings are caused by mental illness in reality it is caused by bullying because, when kids get teased it makes them frustrated and angry so by shooting the school they are taking their anger out and trying to scare them.…
20 year old Male Adam Peter Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in the village of Sandy Hook in Newton, Connecticut. On my quest to look up information on this perpetrator Adam Peter Lanza - (April 22, 1992- December 14,2012) it is stated on wikipedia .com that Adam and his mother Nancy Lanza age 52, lived in sandy Hook, 5miles (8km) from the Elementary school. Adam did not have any criminal background with the police and he also attended sandy hook for a brief time back in his day, but he mostly attended St. Rose Catholic school in Newtown, and then attended Newtown High…
Mass shootings are usually taken place in busy, large, public areas e.g. a school or shopping centre…
School shootings are a form of violence that happens when a child or student is bullied at their school and wants revenge on their peers. The go to the school and open fire and often afterwards commit suicide. Why do school shootings happen, the effects of shootings and how it can be prevented are very important key topics that will be discussed in this paper.…
One day, you could be one person who gets injured or get killed by a gun. We should always prevent accidents to happening by not allowing guns to be used by people. Guns could save you from getting killed by it could allow more humans to be killed in the future. Preventing guns can also reduce mass shootings to occur and gang members to use guns. Hunting is an unfair sport. While the hunters have powerful weapons, the animal can be easily harmed because it unarmed and helpless. From now on, we should try to reduce the amount of guns used in private homes.…
You are in the mall and someone yells everyone "'Get down!" Or I will shoot." Your first instinct is to hit the ground before shots are fired. Now imagine that in the school cafeteria. Scary, right? As scary as it sounds scenarios from horror movies are playing out in schools all over America. You are eating lunch in the cafeteria and a student enters the cafeteria and starts firing off a firearm. First instinct is to scream for help and get on the ground, but why are scenes like this taking place in the learning place. The place where we are told we are the safest, maybe even safer than home. If school is so much safer than home then why are school shootings on the rise? "Most of us already know that too many of our movies, television shows, music songs, and video games are filled with trash: grisly murder scenes, dismemberment and disembowelment, nonstop profanity, rape and torture scenarios" (Bennett par 14). By placing scenes like these in movies for the youth to see the media is causing America to become more violent than is needed. We must prevent violence in schools, solve violence in schools and violence needs to stop now.…
In San Bernardino, California on December, second two thousand fifteen there was an attempt of bombing but just ended up as a mass shooting. Fourteen dead and twenty two seriously injured. Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik a happily married couple were the terrorist. They targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party with about eighty employees. After the attempt of bombing and then the shooting police caught them and had a mass shoot out and had killed them in the process.This shooting the the deadliest shooting ever since the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. They believe that they were inspired by Islamic terrorist. They used two semi-automatic guns and two pistols. The bom they tried to…
Since 2013, there have been 153 school shootings in the United States, although not all have resulted in injury or death. Some of the most horrifying school shootings include the 1966 University of Texas clock tower shooting, the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. More recent was the school shooting that killed 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Most parents want to believe that their children are safe in school, but statistics show that instances of gun violence are still a justifiable concern.…
Lately there has been a rise in the controversial topic of gun violence in the United States. Many Americans believe that the high number of gun violence is a result of the gun laws currently in place, while others believe that there is no fault in the current gun laws. Governor of Oregon, Kate Brown, states “gun violence is terrorizing America, tearing apart the very fabric of our communities and our families,” at an announcement in Portland, OR according to the article, Gov. Brown Announces Plan To Curb Gun Violence, written by Conrad Wilson. I believe that Govern Brown was not only addressing the loss of lives due to gun violence but also the relationships people have with one another as a result of the disagreements over whether gun laws…
In the last 10 months there have been 45 school shootings in America. Since December 14, 2012, there have been 142 shootings at schools. Many say the chance that a person will be targeted in school shooting is bellow 1%. However, despite these odds, many students and parents have become extremely worried in the wake of the most recent tragedy. On Thursday, October 1, a gunman opened fire at a college in Oregon injuring many and killing 10. Many people all over the country are now demanding a change. It appears the incident in Oregon was the last straw for many in a long line of catastrophes involving unnecessary deaths in today’s youth. School shootings have become a widespread issue throughout the United States. This is not acceptable. There are many ways we as a country can bring this number down and end school shootings.…