In a period of 18 months there has been 74 school shootings. That’s 4 to 5 shootings happening every month. Throughout the past decades mass school shootings have increased dramatically. Now a days kids are scared to go to school because they are worried about getting harmed in their learning environment. Schools are meant to be a safe environment for children to learn‚ they feel like they can’t concentrate because they feel unease. Students should not be afraid when it comes to going to school
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Introduction School Shootings A number of cases have been examined with hopes of uncovering features that school shooters have in common in regards to family life‚ personalities‚ histories‚ and behaviors. Not only are they examined for that reason‚ but to also shed light on how they are different. Statistically speaking school shootings have been a very rare occurrence‚ but they are societal issues nonetheless. However‚ the reasons in which a person chooses to commit these horrific crimes is
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has been a major debate in the U.S.‚ especially after all the mass shootings that have taken place. Gun control advocates believe that the government should carry out stricter gun laws to prevent more shootings. People who opposed to gun control think that harsher gun laws will not affect the amount of gun crimes in the United States‚ and they believe it is unconstitutional. Gun laws should be heavily enforced because of mass shootings‚ the possibility of it falling into the wrong hands‚ and other countries’
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Looking at the history of shootings in the primary and elementary schools in the United States‚ one is confronted with some brutal realities. Some of the examples include West Paducah (Kentucky) in December 1997‚ Jonesboro (Arkansas) in March 1998‚ Springfield (Oregon) in May 1998‚ and Littleton (Colorado) in April 1999. All these incidents have one thing in common. School aged children who were also avid video game players‚ were at the center of those incidents. More recent violent crime at school
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Shooting In “shootings”‚ Adam Gopnik speaks about a shooting that took place in Virginia Tech Engineering building‚ and how the parents of the victims were told that it was not the right moment to ask questions. Gopnik also gives his points of view on how the shooting could have been avoided. Gopnik suggests that the main reason why these types of incidents keep happening in the United States is because there is a lack of security and requirements on who should not be able to buy a gun. The government
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effective for his audience because he is showing the truth about how the paramedics. After reading this article Paramedics are taught not to risk their lives after the mass shootings‚ they are talking about that paramedics staying back out of the hot zones because it is to dangers for them after a mass shooting. In Columbine school shooting in Littleton‚ Colo in 1999‚ and the paramedics would not go in to save lives unless the swat team has cleared the place before they went in only because they don’t want
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School Shootings such a big Tragedy in the United States Today.On December 14‚ 2012‚ A 20 year old Male Adam Peter Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in the village of Sandy Hook in Newton‚ Connecticut. On my quest to look up information on this perpetrator Adam Peter Lanza - (April 22‚ 1992- December 14‚2012) it is stated on wikipedia .com that Adam and his mother Nancy Lanza age 52‚ lived in sandy Hook‚ 5miles
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Composition~Orwell Analysis In the excerpt from Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”‚ the author uses similes‚ syllepsis‚ and connotation to appeal to the readers sense of pathos in order to convey his attitude of remorse and fluster in regards to shooting the elephant so as to comment on imperialism. Orwell uses Similes to convey his remorse and fluster towards shooting the elephant. He compares the elephant to “…a huge rock toppling…” and paints the scene by saying “The thick blood welled out of
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Public Criticism of Police Shootings The nature of police work can be one of stress and long‚ hard working hours in which police officers deal with many types of situations that endanger themselves and their fellow officers. The fact that many people do not trust‚ appreciate‚ or support the police department is a terrible result of the public being taught to hate them. They do not like the police presence and the authority that the police have over them. Once a police officer shoots a suspect
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School shootings are terrifying to think about‚ but there are ways to help prevent the massacres from ever happening again. The first known school shooting was at the Texas Tower at the University of Texas in 1966 where Charles Whitman shot and killed 16 people while injuring 31 others. Who would have known since that date that we would have more then 200 deaths on school campuses? The most storied shooting in the 90’s was probably the Columbine massacre where on April 20‚ 1999 Dylan Klebold and
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