Plenty of people including myself have wonder what is it that makes the crime rate in the U.S so much higher than in other countries. Well for starters “the U.S is has the highest gun ownership rate in the world.”The U.S has a statistic violent crime rate of 386.3 per year. 236 More than 31‚000 people a year in the United States die from gunshot wounds .Because victims are disproportionately young‚ gun violence is one of the leading causes of premature mortality in the U.S.Gun violence in the United
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The Second Amendment America has given many rights and has offered protection to US citizens. Like the second amendment states‚ “The right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” However many riots and shootings have recently broke out in the last couple of years. So therefore the right to bear arms has been taken advantage of and as lead to many malicious events like The Columbine Shootings‚ Virginia Tech‚ Aurora Shooting‚ and New Town Shootings. In 1999‚ a failed bombing which
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("Timeline.") Not all were so destructive at their ends as that of Charles Whitman. Some were more so. All have one thing in common: they have forever changed the face of the nation as we thought we knew it. Who were these shooters? What caused them to massacre their respective schools? What had happened to them in their lives to cause them to be so distraught to be perceived as mentally unstable? How is our consistently ignorant response as a nation only hindering attempts to fix what we perceive to
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‘He was afraid that whites would harm them‚’ Forse said. Joseph might also have realized that sending witnesses would accomplish nothing. The next day‚ Forse sent a corporal to escort the Nez Perce witnesses. He also sent a letter to Brainard‚ ‘requesting him to see that they were taken care of.’ Less than a week later‚ however‚ Brainard dismissed the charges against Findley. The two Nez Perce witnesses had refused to testify. Perhaps they feared reprisal or felt their cause was doomed anyway. Either
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of mental disorder‚ as a teenager as well as a college student. Cho was accused of stalking two female students and was declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice. Even‚ thou despite the attack it was never known Cho motive to commit such massacre. Virginia fails to provide the student with information regarding the tragedy events that was taking place in campus. They fail to provide the student safety. The university did not evacuate the campus or notify the student of that attack until
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An Impactful Event in History On December 14‚ 2012 many elementary school students and teachers died due to an awful shooting in Connecticut. The massacre of Sandy Hook elementary. ” Twenty students and six teachers to be exact.” says Jeffery Kluger author of Time magazine. This became a very impactful event in history all due to one person: Adam Lanza. Classes were under way at the school and about 700 students were present that day. As he entered he headed toward two kindergarten and first grade
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On November 18‚ 1978‚ followers of Jim Jones shot and killed United States Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four others traveling with him on a fact finding trip to Guyana. Ryan was there to investigate complaints about the community called "Jonestown‚" which was largely inhabited by his former California constituents. After murdering a United States congressman Jones knew the end of his rule was near. He ordered his entire following‚ some 914 people‚ to commit what he called "revolutionary suicide
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Full-Blown Psychopath The book “Columbine” consists of two teenage boys who murdered twelve and injured twenty-four of their classmates on April 20‚ 1999. Eric Harris‚ who was the mastermind behind the massacre‚ and Dylan Klebold‚ who contributed only because he was searching for a way to end his life‚ had been planning to place bombs in the school and shoot anyone who survived for almost over a year and a half. Before Eric and Dylan entered Columbine on April 20‚ Eric and Dylan had been arrested
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One was used in April 1999 by two students responsible for the Columbine High School Massacre. It ended with 13 dead students‚ a teacher‚ and the two gunmen. The third reason is because of mental illness. Remember the Virginia Tech Shootings in 2007. Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty members before turning the gun on himself at
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The Columbine Shooting and Virginia Tech. shooting were called similar in various ways. They were both declared a national tragedy 13 people killed total in the Columbine and 33 in the Virginia Tech shooting. Though the two incidents were similarly done by psychopaths‚ there were differences in the details of both shootings‚ the reactions of society‚ and upcoming psychological development. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were responsible for the 13 deaths during the Columbine Shooting on April 20
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