witnessed multiple school shootings‚ including recent mass shootings in Newtown‚ Connecticut and Roeburg‚ Oregon. Growing up in the town right next to Newtown I was witness to the horrors and affect the shooting had on the community. Realizing how this shooting impacted not only Newtown‚ but also all towns in Southwestern Connecticut and around the world‚ opened my eyes to the crisis of school shootings. There have been stricter gun laws put in place‚ but as seen by the shooting in Oregon this fall‚ the
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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 and methods of prevention are debated frequently. The only undoubtable detail is how catastrophic the outcome is. The devastating issue has only
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to Mass School Shootings Conner Koe - 1330997 Sociology 1A03 – T24 (Tyler Alderson) Wednesday‚ March 5th‚ 2014 Introduction Although historically violence has always seemingly plagued education systems and their schools‚ the last 20 years has marked the emergence of a new form of violence occurring within these institutions‚ one which is far more deadly and cruel. The act of an individual or multiple individuals executing what is known as a rampage school shooting dates back to
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Another school shooting goes down and is preyed upon by the media for a gripping new story. Jonesboro‚ Arkansas‚ West Paducah‚ Kentucky‚ and Littleton‚ Colorado all have one thing in common. All these places are sites where school shootings have occurred. Why do school shootings happen and who is to blame when they do happen?. These are two questions that are still trying to be answered. Some people say that school shootings are due to the excess marketing of violence in movies‚ television‚
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for anybody. It is even more painful when it is caused by someone’s malicious actions. The Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting has definitely added fuel to the controversial gun debate. Many school districts in Texas have allowed teachers to be able to carry a gun on campus. Although they will be able to have a gun in their possession when a tragedy like the Sandy Hook shooting occurs‚ will they really act the way many claim they will and take down the shooter? Is the Second Amendment more important
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Reflection on Gun Shooting on American Campus Nowadays the campus violence problem becomes a hot topic which arouses more and more people to be concerned about campus gun shooting. People in the world have heard and seen this kind of tragedy over and over in the news. The Safety of United States schools was seriously questioned by the world when in the news all we heard about was there was another shooting in an American high school or university. According to “School Shooting Statistics” which
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English 102 Period 7 08 May 2015 How Many Police Shootings Really Occur? In the United States‚ the public tends to keep track of a lot of things. They have data on how many pigs and hogs are in the United States. The government has data on how many people have been victims of shark attacks that were humanly provoked in 2010. So why can the public not have data on how many people have been killed by police officers in the United States? Is the problem with society‚ or is it with the police force
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There have been around 715 people that have been shot by police alone in 2016. Police violence in the US has become a major point of interest recently due to the amount of shootings. In recent news there have been many reports of police shooting and/or killing black men‚ which has led to movements such as the black lives matter movement‚ a movement working for the validity of black lives. Although there are points made to support both sides of the story‚ I feel that the police are to blame for the
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ended‚ was covered in news of mad mass shootings. Young lives were taken away‚ leaving only wounded hearts‚ sadness‚ and the question: What has gone wrong with society? Mass shootings have always been an issue. Studies show that mass shootings and gun ownerships have a direct relationship‚ that means‚ the more guns people own‚ the more likely for us to experience these incidents. Studies also show that the United States had nearly double the number of mass shootings than most of the developed countries
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On October 2nd‚ 2002‚ a shooting spree near the Nation’s Capital would begin with the killing of a 55-year-old man and last 23 days. By the next morning‚ the 911 call center in the area would become inundated with calls of shootings across Montgomery County‚ Maryland. By the end of the day‚ four people were shot and killed in Maryland‚ and another was killed in the District of Columbia (FBI‚ 2007). Law Enforcement needed to act quickly to figure out if the shootings were linked and if so‚ who the
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