A mass murder is defined as the “antisocial and non-state-sponsored killing of multiple victims during a single episode at one or more locations” (Levin & Madfis‚ 2009). On Sunday‚ June 12th‚ 2016‚ Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 58 others when he opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida‚ making it the deadliest mass shooting in America at the time. It was about 2am in the morning‚ roughly around the last call for the night‚ when Mateen walked straight into Pulse nightclub
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teachers in a senseless act of violence in 2012. A young man walked into an elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults. We have had a rise in gun violence in the United States in the last ten years. In the last ten years we have had a mass theatre shooting‚ church shooting‚ and the Virginia Tech shooting are just a few of the mass shootings that took the United States by storm. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is considered a crisis and I will use the Life Cycle of a Crisis and Social
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particularly middle class or other stable environments‚ become homicidal‚ we need to look beyond the games they play.” Sternheimer starts her article by giving an example of the video game “Doom” that became a target for critics. Shooting at the schools in Kentucky‚ Oregon‚ and Colorado were most probably caused by video games. The author sticks to this explanation because of many influential opinions from politicians‚ news‚ and different groups of people. Media is providing information to the public
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Firearm Ownership: Common Misunderstandings of “Gun Control” vs. “Crime Control” The movement for stricter gun control in the United States would not permit civilian ownership of firearms. However‚ there are arguments that give a plethora of reasons that gun control is irrational and people should be allowed to own and use guns for recreational use and personal and home protection. Those for stricter gun control “if guns were not legal then there would be less killings and mass shootings”
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article. Gun control was a huge topic in the year 2012 and continues to be as we move into 2013. On December 14‚ 2012 there was a mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown‚ Connecticut where 20 students and six educators were killed. The shooter was said to be armed with a “military-style rifle and two handguns”("Connecticut school shooting:‚" 2012) . This shooting along with many more in the past have brought about the topic of gun control. The Newtown shooting of course instilled fear in
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the most horrific school shooting happened. A young man took the lives of innocent children and adults. No one knew what was ahead of them that Friday morning as they awoke and started their daily routines. Adam Lanza took the lives of 26 people. There are clear statements as to why this happened. The poor security‚ School Shooter video game‚ mental illness‚ and pedophilia are all causes to why this could have happened. The poor security in the school at Sandy Hook Elementary School led to a major
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Teachers be Armed? The issue regarding arming teachers in schools has been a really hot topic lately with the numerous shootings in schools and on campuses. Many schools are asking themselves if they should go through with training teachers and staff and some schools have started doing so. Even though most schools have not allowed teachers to carry a concealed firearm‚ some teachers like Kelly Blake‚ a teacher of agriculture at Fleming School in Colorado‚ reports that she “wants her students to be
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National Review. In the essay‚ “Bullying Can Lead to School Shootings” (1999)‚ Gillespie argues that many students are harassed and bullied by their peers at school. Gillespie states that‚ “I used to imagine bringing weaponry to school and making the f@#$% that made my life miserable beg for mercy.” This explains why students would bring guns to school for revenge; they feel like that’s the only way to get back at someone. The question is whether schools tend to care about student feelings or ending the
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world. Increased media attention chronicling incidences of police brutality on unarmed blacks has increased visibility‚ awareness‚ and subsequently sparked outrage in minority communities in the United States (U.S.). The 16-year-old Spring Valley high school student dragged out of her desk and slung across a classroom by a police officer for not putting her phone away in class‚ Philando Castile being shot in front of his fiancé and four-year-old daughter for reaching for his wallet‚ Terence Crutcher
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4‚453 wounded by gun-violence” (Vox). These records have been being recorded since the mass shooting that took place in Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. It’s really hard to ignore how public gun-violence when it continuously takes place in the United States. There have been mass shootings killing a lot of people‚ like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting‚ as well as the 2016 Orlando Nightclub Shooting‚ but there has also been gun-violence that hasn’t killed masses of people but that killed
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