gun control because it’s unfair for the people that use it for the right reason and gun control would not lower the crime rates. First of all gun control would not be unfair for the people that use gun for the right purposes. Sarah Merkle a sport shooter would lose her chance of getting a scholarship if gun control would be passed. A student like Merkle wouldn’t be able to go to college because of gun control law. Basically‚ passing the gun control law would take away the chances for a student that
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hand-eye coordination such as those used to reload and fire a weapon. Studies recently have shown that brain activity associated with empathy is suppressed while playing these violent games (Drinka). In many of these video games the player becomes the shooter. The player is shooting dehumanized enemies‚ which is enabling
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violent behavior problems with white youth. In fact‚ many journalist compared young school mass shooters to how often they play a certain video game. In Karen Sternheimer’s "Do Video Games Kill?” She discusses one game in particular‚ which is the video game “Doom”. “Doom” was a shooting video game “...released in 1993...”(214) and many politicians brought up “Doom” while discussing mass school shooters at the time. However these
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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 tragedy. The school’s security failed. A gun man got into the school by the
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R. Myers High School shooting in Alberta. If you have been paying attention‚ you may have noticed a few similarities with the stories I’ve told thus far‚ such as all of them took place in a school environment‚ or all the shooters were armed with an automatic weapon like Marc Lépine’s semi-automatic rifle. This begs the question‚ how are fourteen-year-olds able to have possession of a semi-automatic rifle in Canada? Well‚ it’s quite simple‚ semi-automatic weapons aren’t banned
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In this article‚ McLaughlin‚ who is the author‚ discussed the timeline of the Las Vegas shooting. McLaughlin talked about how MGM‚ the company that owns the hotel that the shooter was in‚ said that facts on the timeline cannot be verified and is still changing. On the other hand‚ Investigators believe that the timeline is accurate‚ but it may change. No one knows the reason why Paddock‚ the terrorist‚ decided to harm tens of thousands of people. McLaughlin also discussed that a college student names
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Violent video games are not causing kids to be violent people If there was an experiment created where a person was placed in front of a television screen‚ given a controller and allowed to play a violent first person shooter for an hour‚ would one feel the urge to shoot a school up? The question is do violent video games lead to violent behaviors? The research shows that violent video games cause heightened aggression‚ but not a more violent behavior. What trying to argue is that violent video
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Resulting with 12 dead and 20 injured‚ April 20th‚ 1999‚ ultimately became the day of the worst high school shooting in U.S. history at Columbine High School‚ prompting a national debate on gun control and school safety. According to the article Columbine High School Shootings “In the aftermath of the shootings‚ many schools across America enacted “zero tolerance” rules regarding disruptive behavior and threats of violence from students (History.com).” In addition‚ there have been many more strategies
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“This is not acceptable‚ this is not normal. We’re the only developed country on Earth where this happens and it happens now once a week and it’s a one-day story” (as qtd. in Kemp). Barack Obama‚ as well as the residents of the once top-notch country of America have witnessed in disgust the well-known‚ unfortunate phenomenon that has faced the nation since the eighteenth century‚ school shootings. School violence is arguably one of the most controversial topics in America‚ mostly because the causes
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The topic I have chosen is to discuss is how media violence plays in aggression in young adults and children. Albert Bandura developed the social learning theory. Bandura did a bobo doll experiment in 1961 and 1963‚ which studied children’s behaviors after watching an adult model act aggressively towards a bobo doll. There were 36 boys and 36 girls between the ages of 37 to 69 months old from Stanford University nursery. The children were split up into 4 different groups that were controlled by half
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