2012 CSYW W.R. Myers High School Alberta Taber School Shooting: A 14 year old boy who had been bullied at W.R. Myers High School in Taber Alberta had entered the school on April. 28. 1999 with a .22 Calibre rifle and opened fire. He killed a 17 year old young boy named Jason Lang. Another 17 year old boy was shot‚ but fully recovered after the shooting. 14 year old “Todd Cameron Smith” a high school dropout showed signs of depression before the school shooting. Todd Smith had been bullied since
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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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School Shootings Kimberly Cotton April 25 2016 Professor Hanser University of Louisiana at Monroe Abstract School shootings are a form of violence that happens when a child or student is bullied at their school and wants revenge on their peers. The go to the school and open fire and often afterwards commit suicide. Why do school shootings happen‚ the effects of shootings and how it can be prevented are very important key topics that will be discussed in this paper.
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Ramzi Doudar Daniel Ante-Contreras English 1B 18 May 2014 You Have the Potential to Shoot Up a School! In the eyes of news media‚ whenever a travesty such as a school shooting occurs all other forms of news cease to exist. News stations spend days reporting on the same exact story regardless of any updates. Every time a school shooting occurs the media attempts to establish that the shooter is psychologically ill. Media outlets bend the truth‚ exaggerate quantitative data‚ and appeal to unqualified
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attacks‚ and shootings. I think one of the problems that continue to grow rapidly is school shootings. In 2015 there have been more than 45 school shootings. This has left schools with a tragic event they will always be haunted with. In order to protect the school‚ teachers should have the right to carry a pistol on campus to make it a safer place for students‚ faculty‚ and staff. No matter how prepared you are it can still happen‚ and being armed could bring down risk of school shootings or protect
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the school cafeteria. Scary‚ right? As scary as it sounds scenarios from horror movies are playing out in schools all over America. You are eating lunch in the cafeteria and a student enters the cafeteria and starts firing off a firearm. First instinct is to scream for help and get on the ground‚ but why are scenes like this taking place in the learning place. The place where we are told we are the safest‚ maybe even safer than home. If school is so much safer than home then why are school shootings
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Although no one enjoys to hear about it‚ school shooting are sadly a realistic possibility throughout the world. Many innocent children and teachers have lost their lives and become victims of such hateful crimes across our country as well as the entire world. Furthermore‚ the majority of schools do take precautions in order to help prevent such tragedy‚ however‚ this is often times not enough. The mental scarring in which individuals who undergo the horrific event is highly traumatizing. Nobody
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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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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
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Hailey Ms. St. Hilaire Research 7 December 2012 Psychological Profile of a School Shooter Why would a student decide to shoot their own classmates? Often when a topic like this is talked about usually a stereotypical reason is valid‚ at the time‚ to explain why a student would perform an act like a school shooting. Often people jump to a stereotypical conclusion because violence is frequently found in games and further media. Stereotyping is a subconscious act when a person places someone
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