minutes’ drive from my aunt’s home. Nine years ago‚ two students in Columbine High School killed twelve students and a teacher before committing suicide there. Even today‚ many people regard it as a nightmare and don’t want to talk about it. Unfortunately‚ this tragedy is not alone‚ and during the last two decades‚ numerous school shootings have happened around the whole nation‚ and hundreds of people have died during the school massacres. Why do so many tragedies happen one after another? We couldn’t avoid
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A few things that to help prevent School Shootings but failed would be the zero tolerance policy. The zero tolerance policy is preventing drugs and weapons being brought onto school property. But many students get away with it because they bring weapons to school hidden in their backpacks without anyone noticing‚ then they cause a tragedy‚ “Schools are not safer‚ or more educational because of zero tolerance policies.”(Nick Gillespie 4). This policy doesn’t change anything so why have this policy
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The Columbine High School Shooting allowed for advanced security among schools all over the United States. As claimed by a 2007 report from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ “there have been about half as many deaths per year since Columbine as in the seven school years before the tragedy…school homicides dropped from 33 in the 1998-1999 school year to 13 in the 1999-2000 year” (CITE). We have improved security and stricter rules to blame for this
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wounded seven others in a school shooting in Pearl‚ Mississippi. In a note‚ Luke declared: “I am not insane. I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day.”1 He explained that he was tired of being called a “faggot”; he was additionally enraged that his girlfriend—whom he killed in the shooting—had broken up with him. At the start of the Woodham case‚ I began examining school shootings. Two months after the massacre in Mississippi came a shooting in Kentucky‚ then one in Arkansas
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incident‚ I felt really bad for all those innocent children and teachers. Since Newtown is pretty close to Shelton‚ everyone was scared and talking about it. A lot of people stopped feeling safe after this. Our school reacted to this incident by locking all of the entrances to the school. I was very confused on why that man would do such a thing and I couldn’t stop thinking about it because it was all over the news. It’s a scary thing to think that something like this could happen so close to where
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“restrictive”‚ gun dealers must have a valid license to sell firearms‚ and the movements of each privately owned firearm must be recorded in an official register. Without more federal control over the flow of guns in the United States‚ schools are easy and accessible targets for school shooters to take advantage of. It is important that Congress is proactive‚ taking action before an incident occurs‚ instead of reacting to a tragedy with massive loss of life. The background checks system that is currently implemented
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Kent state shooting By Jamal spencer The Kent shooting were the shooting of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam war at the Kent state university in Kent Ohio‚ by member of National Gaud on May 4‚ 1970. In May 1970‚ students protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces‚ clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. When the Guardsmen shot and killed four students on May 4‚ the Kent State Shootings became the focal point of a nation
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If you recently picked up a newspaper or turned on to see the news you may have question what is happening in our schools and begin to think whether our schools are still safe places for children. Recent school shootings have set feared in many parents about their children’s safety in our schools. Since last year number of school shootings by students have occurred regularly. On Tuesday February 29‚ 2000 in Mount Morris Township‚ Michigan a six-year old boy shot his classmate to death in their first
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Shooting an Elephant Essay Courage is being able to drown out the voices of others and stay true to one’s own morals. In the memoir Shooting An Elephant‚ George Orwell describes his time as a British Colonial police officer in Burma. While he is there he develops hatred for the British Empire and his actions‚ throughout the memoir are contrary to his beliefs. There are several events that take place in Shooting an Elephant that reveal Orwell’s character flaws. He lacks the ability to make decisions
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On April 20‚ 1999‚ two teens‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton‚ Colorado. They killed thirteen and wounded more than twenty before turning the guns on themselves. It was the worst school shooting in U.S. history. It caused a huge investigation to determine what motivated the boys. It was a pretty tragic event that changed the safe feeling that any high school student felt across the country. Dylan Klebold‚17‚ was the child of upper class
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