School Violence Outline Krista Sauber‚ Kennedi Kautzman‚ Sasha Hopfauf‚ and Emily Bendish Introduction: You’re sitting in the cafeteria during your lunch break just eating and talking with your friends. All of a sudden you hear a gunshot and the girl next to you falls to the ground. You grab your books cover your head and duck. People are screaming and you hear four more gunshots go off. You stay on the ground confused and scared until the police show up and you are safe to get up. You may be safe
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invented the Colt Model 1911. A major advantage to the new Colt Model 1911 is its semi-automatic‚ making it easier and faster to reload compared to the revolver previously in use by the U.S. Army. The magazine held seven rounds (Askins28). This allowed shooters to put a higher volume of fire downrange or more importantly reload less in a gunfight. Although the Colt model 1911 was not the first semi-auto pistol it was the first to be produced in large quantities. The first semi-auto pistol ever made was
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consumer much like the Ruger Precision. It is also applicable for predator hunting as the primary rifle. Although it comes in with a price tag of twenty five hundred dollars‚before optics‚ it is well worth the price to professional and recreational shooters alike. It is more than likely that this cost which is close to double that of the Ruger Precision is due to the aluminum construction along with the chrome lined barrel and a little of the FN name. It comes standard with a Magpul adjustable stock
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shooting there have been at least 1‚518 mass shootings leaving 1‚715 dead (The Long‚ Shameful List of School Shootings in America). In recent events‚ as I am sure you are aware‚ there was a mass shooting in Las Vegas leaving 58 people dead (Yan). The shooter was found with 42 guns in his hotel room and his home. There is a major need to limit the amount of mass killings in our country (Yan). From hate crimes to random shootings‚ we need to make sure our citizens are able to feel safe going to school or
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The shooters were Eric Harris‚ 18 and Dylan Klebold‚ 17. (History.com Staff pg.1) b. The shooters later turned the guns on themselves. (History.com Staff pg.1) c. The teachers at this school were not allowed to carry guns. d. They did however have an armed officer on site and yet the two shooters were still able to kill 13 people. (History.com Staff pg.1)
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wisdom dictates that a single shooter‚ Lee Harvey Oswald‚ shot and killed President Kennedy in Dallas‚ Texas on November 22‚ 1963. However‚ there is evidence to support that there were multiple shooters and Lee Harvey Oswald was not in the position to shoot the bullets everyone said he did‚ and many people truly believe that to be so. It is simple to dismiss such conspiracy theory as imaginative fiction‚ but many people have done research to prove that the single shooter did not kill President Kennedy
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Just as dialectic allows an individual to examine both sides of a question‚ the Obama and Trump speeches regarding the Orlando shooting allow the audience to hear two opposing views and arguments regarding a situation. Although these speeches pertain to the same subject‚ they exhibit how differing uses of rhetoric can be used to persuade and achieve objectives Aristotle viewed rhetoric as a true art or techne. Herrick tells us that a techne “produced social utility‚ much like government produced
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is truly to blame? Dr. John Grohol‚ who is a specialist in mental health services‚ has an interesting approach. He breaks down the shootings and looks at each blame factor. As he states "no where do your hear the blame on the shooter themselves." Dr.Grohol believes the shooters are to blame for their own actions. He believes that video games can not make someone do something that he or she does not want to do. He says that "Millions of kids play violent video games everyday in the U.S. 99.99999% of
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Obviously‚ there was no student or teacher with a gun at the scene of the shooting. As I stated before‚ we cannot know if the tragedy could have turned out differently if someone would have shot the shooter. We can logically see how the tragedy could have been prevented by a student with a gun‚ though. Imagine if a student or teacher would have pulled a gun on and shot the Seung-Hui Cho before he began shooting people in the classroom. Dozens of lives
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don’t believe they should be able to carry a gun. No matter how much training they have‚ or how much trust students have for the teacher‚ it is just too dangerous. Bullying doesn’t lead to school shootings‚ unless its prolonged without help. Shooters usually have a psychotic mindset behind why they did it‚ In Dylan and Eric’s case‚ it was because they thought the school needed to learn a lesson. It is also not a gun control issue. Governmental officials say stricter gun laws could stop shootings
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