Argumentative Essay On Charleston Church Shooting

Recently there was a mass shooting in Las Vegas. A gunman opened fire on a concert from his hotel room leaving 58 people dead and over 500 injured. This incident has reintroduced the issue of mass shootings to our societal conversations. The topic of mass shootings is an emotional one. It triggers the most basic human fear, fear of the unknown. Most people have an emotional bias one way or another on this subject, making it a very sensitive topic of conversation. I will do my best not to offend anyone, if I do offend you please understand that it was not my intention. I will do my best to not let any bias I may have affect examination of this topic. My intention is to examine the topic in a logical manner to better understand the issue. This is a problem that is not going to fix itself. We as a society need to come up with a solution.

The firearms that were used in the attacks were two nine millimeter hand guns and two twelve gauge shotguns. They had sawed off the barrels and the butts of the guns to make them easier to carry and conceal while walking into the school. Eric and Dylan used the internet to make ninety nine improvised devices that were all different in size and design. With all of these things that they had done they had already committed many felonies prior to the massacre. Eric and Dylan obtained these firearms from a local gun show. They had gone to the show the day before and were turned away because of their age. Determined to buy the weapons they Eric and Dylan found an older boy to buy the shot guns for them his boy worked at the pizza shop with them. Also they had purchased the hand guns through a person that they had met at work also. Later this person was prosecuted for selling a firearm to an underage person. The semi automatic hand gun was bought for five hundred dollars.

I have been a student in the Thomas County School System ever since I started pre-school. During my time here, I have loved every minute of it, learning and having great experiences with friends and teachers here. Over the last four years of my high school experience, I have noticed that there have been more threats of bombings and shootings around the nation. Even though we do have a safe school and take precautions, there is still room for error. I am proposing that we make school a safer place for kids to learn by installing bulletproof glass as well as door-stoppers in each class.

School shootings have become well known around the world due to the coverage by the media. . These shootings are a serious concern and have parents constantly concerned about their child’s safety when they are at school and also have students thinking twice about any unusual or suspicious behavior. The media appears to play a large part in school shootings and it is important to analyze the deviant behaviors of the shooters in these horrific instances and the fear they create in schools. Does the media play a large part in school shootings or does the media play a large part in the sensationalism of school shootings and the fear they create both in schools and with parents?

Dylann Roof, killer of nine innocent people, was taken into custody two weeks ago Thursday morning. Some would say God forgives him, and some would like to strike back. Dylann walked into a bible study and shot three men and six women, in order to start a ‘race war’. It was his belief that white people should stand with their own, and war against other colors.

Roof’s past was a troubled one, poor school performance, a broken family, hard drug and alcohol usage, and racist internet hate groups were all factors that played into the malicious attack. Following the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin, then 21 year old Roof researched black on white crime (“Dylann Roof jury”) and was appalled at the statistics that went “unnoticed.” This fueled him to create his own website where he posted pictures of himself posing in Civil War era slave graveyards, showing off Nazi symbols, and desecrating the American flag. Also found on the website was a lengthy, racist, hate-filled manifesto with sections including blacks, Hispanics, East Asians, Jews, and others. During the weeks following up to the attack, his friends reported storage remarks made by Roof including “a plan to do

The Charleston church shooting was a shooting that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, on June 17, 2015. The FBI said Dylann Roof the man that killed nine African American at the church in Charleston should not have been able to buy a gun. Dylan Roof illegally bought a 45 caliber glock handgun on april 11 2015.

Kelley fired from the outside and hit two people. He then travelled around to the side and entered, still shooting. He was wearing black tactical gear, a ballistic vest and extra rounds of ammunition. The shooter was armed with a rifle.

When parents dropped off their kids at Sandy Hook Elementary School they had no idea that they would never see their children ever again. On that day, Adam Lanza burst into the school that day killing 26 innocent people, 20 of which were children. None of those families had any idea that that day their lives would change forever. Sandy Hook Shooting has changed the way people lived and the way people sees the world.

I will never forget the day that I completed my Eagle Project. After spending almost two years of organizing paperwork, gathering donations, and getting people prepared to tackle the project, it was finally done. It was just how I pictured it. A park, Emilie's Park. Two years before then, however, marks a day I wish I could forget.

There are many problems in this world today. One main problem in the United States and all over the world is mass shootings. This problem is a huge one because it involves people killing other people and that is just unacceptable. In the last ten years there have been over 53 mass shootings in the United States, not including the rest of the world (Chris Wilson). In the last thirty-five years there have been seven-hundred and twenty-two and then one thousand one-hundred seventy-seven (Chris Wilson). If you look at the number of people that are killed or being wounded, you will notice that with new devices being introduced. One of the devices that have been introduced is a bump stock. This device is a stock for a semi-automatic rifle that can basically turn your semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic rifle. They are considering making this attachment to a rifle illegal to the public.

With his hands cuffed, the police took him into custody. The courts records revealed that Roof is a heavy drug user and had been arrested twice earlier this year on charge of drug possession and trespassing four months before he did the mass slaughters. Roof known to had dropped out from high school since 10th grade. Interlinked with Bever, Costa, Horwitz, & Lac (2015) study, which was described above, Zavadski (2015) points out that according to the federal law enforcement official, Roof showed no regret over what he had done, as he proclaimed his hatred towards blacks. Roof told the investigators that he had researched the renowned Mother Emanuel church to plot his violence for roughly six months before he launched the attack through a self-made website called Last Rhodesian, as he hoped to start another racial civil war and wanted the segregation system back to be applied in today’s society. Likewise, Roof’s former acquaintance, Joseph Greek, also positively stated that Roof used to frequently ranted about his intention to do something to prevent the spread of blacks’ power worldwide (Alcindor & Stanglin,

The Orlando nightclub shooting in Florida on June 12, 2016 was the single largest massacre in U.S history, taking the lives of 50 individuals, including the shooter himself, and injuring 53 others. This is one extreme example of the gun violence that has been occurring in this country, but mass shootings like this and the one at Newton in 2012 are only a small part of our gun violence issue. The everyday gun violence that takes place in cities all across the United States claims the lives of thousands every single year. According to The Guardian, 33,500 civilians die each year because of gun brutality- “that’s about 1 life every 15 minutes” (Beckett). Between the years of 1999 and 2013, there were 464,003 gun deaths in the U.S, about 58% of them were suicides 37% were homicides. (ProCon.org) Gun violence and the consequences of that violence, have become a real and dangerous problem in the U.S , why else would the CDC list the United States as having the highest rate of gun violence out of all developed countries today? (Gale Opposing Viewpoints) This issue is not just attributable to a single factor, there are several that play an important part in why gun violence is such an issue in the U.S, namely laws and poverty; and in these causes we can also find solutions.

Secondly, those who believe the shooting of Michael Brown was racially motivated only have witness testimony to support their claim. Witness

This research paper’s purpose is to examine how the media is received, based on an audience analysis on the Orlando nightclub shooting in June 2016. His follows on from the findings of a content analysis on the same topic and used to understand how both the public and the media represent the shooter, Omar Mateen. An audience analysis is used to determine how the public and viewers responded to media content and is used to shape media content (Napoli, 2012, pp.79). A survey responded by peers was used to gather the results, which will be analysed and compared throughout this paper with the findings of the content analysis, and used to understand, not only the representation of Omar Mateen, but also the relationship between the public and the media.