been massive gun shootings in schools from all ages. How is it possible for just any one to get hold of a gun that easily? Some benefits to banning handgun would be there won’t be so much gun violence‚ not everyone can get hold of a gun so easily‚ and the population or estimates of kids dying do to gun issues would drop massively. Every day about 30 people either get shot or murdered by someone using a gun. In America approximately
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School shootings are a topic of much fascination in the U.S. They invoke such attention in the media circus of ’why’s’ and ’what’s’ that there’s often little time to even mourn for the victims. Perhaps it’s the immense shock that comes from the idea of our youth shooting up their peers indiscriminately‚ but it is a fair question nonetheless. What causes school shootings? Well‚ a variety of things. But the discussions that follow are often along the lines of: "did they play too many violent video
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Figure 1: The Increase of School Shootings (School shooting Trends). Since the year 2013‚ the number of school shootings in the United States has grown to a deplorable total of 160. The number of school shootings is rapidly increasing due to the increase of people with serious mental illness not getting the appropriate help they need. Also‚ students who are bullied in their academic years make up a majority of gunmen in the shootings. Lastly‚ having weapons easily accessible within ones home has
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school shootings are‚ these adjectives that I used in the previous sentences are familiar to many families across this country. A school shooter has one purpose and one purpose only: to shoot as many people as he/she can. With the growing rate of suburban school shootings‚ it is the school security’s responsibility to keep students safe and out of harm’s way. School shootings are becoming more prevalent in today’s society because
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There are some problems with mass shootings‚ but with a little bit of changes those problems can be solved. There are many problems in the world today and mass shootings is just one of many. Mass shootings are deadly tragedies that happen to innocent people. Mass shootings are normally carried out with a person with a mental illness or some sort of disease. Most people who commit mass shootings have some form of mental illness or depression. They feel like they do not get enough attention or loving
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Dalaney Renz Ms. Mendoza English 10 3/7/13 Sandy Hook Shooting Mainstream media claims that Sandy Hook shooting was a massacre and an intruder at the school took many children’s lives that day. But there has been strange behavior and evidence that the shooting was a hoax‚ planned and acted by the government so people would be persuaded to believe that guns are the problem. Therefore‚ the government would try and take away our second amendment rights. Friday December 14th‚ 2012 mainstream
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penalized for their crimes of unjustified shootings and acts of physical assaults. There have
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242 shootings in schools alone (Scheller). Since the Sandy Hook shooting there have been at least 1‚518 mass shootings leaving 1‚715 dead (The Long‚ Shameful List of School Shootings in America). In recent events‚ as I am sure you are aware‚ there was a mass shooting in Las Vegas leaving 58 people dead (Yan). The shooter was found with 42 guns in his hotel room and his home. There is a major need to limit the amount of mass killings in our country (Yan). From hate crimes to random shootings‚ we need
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According to Harold Pollack‚ high-profile mass shootings are relatively rare‚ resulting on average in a dozen deaths a year. Pollack also states that mass shootings are quite difficult to prevent. “Yet‚ as we show‚ notions of mental illness that emerge in relation to mass shootings frequently reflect larger cultural stereotypes and anxieties about matters such as race/ethnicity‚ social class‚ and politics. These issues become obscured when mass shootings come to stand in for all gun crime‚ and when
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every time you would mention Glenn to him then he would cry Darrel was just so depressed when Glenn died. He also had three children. Their names are Glenda Drake‚ Maria Drake‚ and Mathew Drake. He also had a step daughter named Kaylee Drake. His dads name was Glenn Drake
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