previous school shooting that have happened in the United States. It looks at the shooters‚ and also look at theories of what possibly could’ve been their motives for commenting such a tragedy‚ taking innocent lives. The paper looks at what we have learned and what we can do to prevent future school shooting tragedies. It looks at how bullying has pulled the trigger and how kids just want to be heard. The paper looks at what psychologist and criminologist have to say about future shootings and past shooters
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History of School Shootings School shootings have dated as far back to the 1700’s. During the 1800’s there were 38 school shootings. From 1900 to 1979 there were 125 School shootings (History of School Shootings in the United States‚ 2016). From 1980 to September 28‚ 2016 there have been 277 school shootings in the United States. Since from 1980 to 2012 there have been 297 people killed (Kirk‚ 2012). In the last 30 years the worse shooting happened April 16‚ 2007 at Virginia Tech‚ 33 students were
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case but sadly it is not. Over forty school shootings have happened within one year. School shootings have been a constant problem for our nation‚ in order to protect all of us‚ we need to create a dynamic solution. So many school shooting incidents occurred on the campuses of K-12 public schools and private schools‚ as well as colleges and universities. America has been dealing with school shootings since the eighteenth century. The first school shooting occurred on February 2‚ 1996‚ in Moses Lake
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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
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School shootings are a topic of much fascination in the U.S. They invoke such attention in the media circus of ’why’s’ and ’what’s’ that there’s often little time to even mourn for the victims. Perhaps it’s the immense shock that comes from the idea of our youth shooting up their peers indiscriminately‚ but it is a fair question nonetheless. What causes school shootings? Well‚ a variety of things. But the discussions that follow are often along the lines of: "did they play too many violent video
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school shootings are‚ these adjectives that I used in the previous sentences are familiar to many families across this country. A school shooter has one purpose and one purpose only: to shoot as many people as he/she can. With the growing rate of suburban school shootings‚ it is the school security’s responsibility to keep students safe and out of harm’s way. School shootings are becoming more prevalent in today’s society because
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There are some problems with mass shootings‚ but with a little bit of changes those problems can be solved. There are many problems in the world today and mass shootings is just one of many. Mass shootings are deadly tragedies that happen to innocent people. Mass shootings are normally carried out with a person with a mental illness or some sort of disease. Most people who commit mass shootings have some form of mental illness or depression. They feel like they do not get enough attention or loving
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high-profile school shootings in the US. Are their concerns justified? Having examined a report by (Borum‚ Cornell‚ Modzeleski‚ & Jimerson‚ 2010) which addresses this question by reviewing a range of empirical evidence‚ I feel as though it is safe to say that American schools are safe and the publicity of the cases creates a grandiose perception of danger and causes unnecessary fear. The report also explains why there is a miscomprehension regarding the occurrence of school shootings and provides insight
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Dalaney Renz Ms. Mendoza English 10 3/7/13 Sandy Hook Shooting Mainstream media claims that Sandy Hook shooting was a massacre and an intruder at the school took many children’s lives that day. But there has been strange behavior and evidence that the shooting was a hoax‚ planned and acted by the government so people would be persuaded to believe that guns are the problem. Therefore‚ the government would try and take away our second amendment rights. Friday December 14th‚ 2012 mainstream
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penalized for their crimes of unjustified shootings and acts of physical assaults. There have
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