Doudar Daniel Ante-Contreras English 1B 18 May 2014 You Have the Potential to Shoot Up a School! In the eyes of news media‚ whenever a travesty such as a school shooting occurs all other forms of news cease to exist. News stations spend days reporting on the same exact story regardless of any updates. Every time a school shooting occurs the media attempts to establish that the shooter is psychologically ill. Media outlets bend the truth‚ exaggerate quantitative data‚ and appeal to unqualified
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Virginia Tech Shooting and Campus Security During the spring of 2007 on the Virginia Polytech Institute campus‚ a student named Seung-Hui Cho had shot 2 students in a resident hall before entering classrooms and shooting 32 other students and professors (Glum). This event had created a call for necessities in protecting not only the Virginia Tech school but all large campuses in America. Director of Virginia’s 32 National Campus Safety Initiative S. Daniel Carter stated‚ “That one incident sort
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Figure 1: The Increase of School Shootings (School shooting Trends). Since the year 2013‚ the number of school shootings in the United States has grown to a deplorable total of 160. The number of school shootings is rapidly increasing due to the increase of people with serious mental illness not getting the appropriate help they need. Also‚ students who are bullied in their academic years make up a majority of gunmen in the shootings. Lastly‚ having weapons easily accessible within ones home has
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The motivation that backs a person to commit a mass shooting has peaked the minds of many over the years. Maybe none quite as much as the shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School‚ December 14th 2012. Adam Lanza decided to end the lives of twenty six innocent women and children‚ and then turned the gun on himself. There is no excuse for something so disturbing as this crime‚ but there are explanations for why something like this may happen. In Lanza’s case there were so many big
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of ocassions before sulking off into the unspecified realm of dark situations yet again. It has no preference for a certain variety of victims; to seek and destroy is the only goal with matter. Such is the case of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting on December 14‚ 2012. With fear then cast into the community of Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ and all of America‚ it may only be said that tragedy is received in the massive doses of heartache‚ despair‚ and a continuing aura of hopelessness‚ and with these
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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
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similar catastrophe happened again. There are several ideas that can be treatments which included improve security in school‚ notice the violence on social media and set up proper gun policy. One of the most effective way to prevent school massive shooting is to improve the
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Shooting an Elephant Essay Courage is being able to drown out the voices of others and stay true to one’s own morals. In the memoir Shooting An Elephant‚ George Orwell describes his time as a British Colonial police officer in Burma. While he is there he develops hatred for the British Empire and his actions‚ throughout the memoir are contrary to his beliefs. There are several events that take place in Shooting an Elephant that reveal Orwell’s character flaws. He lacks the ability to make decisions
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Why Possessing A Useless Firearm? Nowadays‚ people have various views about possessing firearms. It cannot be denied that firearms are often a big danger. One of the numerous examples is the school shooting on April 20‚ 1999 at Columbine High school that ended in a massacre. In this essay‚ I will discuss three arguments that indicates why I am against firearms. Firstly‚ weapon possession creates more crime. Secondly‚ a firearm could end up by mentally ill people‚ even when it is bought legally
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Recall two of the deadliest school shootings in the United State history involved horrific tragic deaths. The first happened in 2007‚ at Virginia Tech in Virginia. Seung Cho‚ a twenty three year old young man‚ shot and killed a total of thirty two students and teachers before he killed himself (History.com‚ 2011). The second‚ and latest deadliest school shooting of December‚ 2012‚ occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. Gunman‚ Adam Lanza‚ was a young man at the age of twenty. First he
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