Argumentative Essay On Mass Shootings

This world seems to be falling apart, going crazy, or even taking people away out of the blew. One of the main reasons behind that is school shootings. It tends to happen when people think they are taking their kids into a safe environment. School is supposed to be safe, full of kids talking to their friends, teachers, and maybe petting the psychologist’s dog just saying “hi” to the dog. For the longest time school shootings have been climbing, occuring more and more. Everyday, bad things happen which show how humanity is cruel. (table1, Mass Shootings Per Year) this graph is showing how the numbers every year change. Since the year 1982 and 2016, the numbers really do change drastically.

Most of the history about this subject only goes back 70 years ago. Before that, no one knew what mass shootings were. These events were not normally committed during those times. This subject is a relatively new concept predominantly found in the U.S. In a recent study, it shows that we are the leading country for mass-shootings (Willingham). Following our country is the Philippines, with a difference of 72 shootings (Willingham). But it does not stop there. These events are rising with new mass shootings such as the Las Vegas Shooting, which is now the largest one in our country's history with over 50 deaths and over 500 injuries (Yan, et. al.). Even though these shootings are not near Thomasville, they still hit home. These circumstances could easily strike in our town with not time to plan, but to plan, but we could prevent them. Most of these events are mainly located in California,

There has been an average of one school shooting every week in America since the Sandy Hook shooting. On the fourteenth of December, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, 20-year-old Adam Lanza not only killed his mother in her home, but also twenty children and six members of staff at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. This was to be the third deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The Huffington Post reports that as of 2014, there have been over 200 school shootings. These have resulted in at least 94 deaths and over 156 serious and minor injuries. And, with an issue as emotive and contentious as the murder of school children, the question has been frequently asked: why do school shootings happen?

30 Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. History Fast Facts lists 30 famous mass shootings that happened from 1949 to the recent year. On April 16, 2007, a 23-year-old student, named Seung-Hui Cho, goes on a shooting spree killing 32 Americans in campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. On December 2, 2015, a married couple, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, opened fire and killed 14 Americans on an employee meeting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof shot and killed nine Americans inside the church in Charleston, South Carolina (2016). Ladd Everitt, has served as the Director of Communications of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, mentions that there are approximately more than 32,000 Americans have died from gun violence every year in the United States

The United States has had over 350 mass shootings in 2015 alone. There is no specific criteria for mass shootings besides that there are multiple victims and it seems to be at random. There have been a number of mass shootings that have made the news worldwide like; the mass shooting at a black church in S.C and the mass shooting in Texas that left over 20 individuals dead or injured. There are several reasons why a mass shooting may occur. The most recent mass shooting happened this month in California and it happened at a home for the mentally ill. On December 2, 2015 Syed Rizwan Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire on at a holiday party in the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. Fourteen died and 21 were

The deadly shootings at military sites in Tennessee illustrate the threat that FBI officials have warned about: violence directed against a vulnerable government target by a lone gunman with apparent terrorist aspirations.

It’s come to the point in America where mass shootings are widespread and more” normal than ever. In perspective, 17 of the 30 deadliest mass sh have occurred in the last 10 years. The Las Vegas Shooting, also known as the deadliest shooting in modern U.S history took place on the night of October 1, 2017. A man by the name Stephan Paddock, a 64 year old man, opened fire from his room in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino onto concertgoers below. Taking the coward's way out, Paddock killed himself and today his motive for the shooting is still unknown.

Some other examples of mass shootings that happened not too long ago was when James Holmes fatally shot 12 people and injured 70 in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater. In Newtown, Connecticut there was another mass shooting that took place in an elementary school. The shooter killed 26 people,which included teachers and students. “April 2, 2012: Seven people were killed and three were wounded when a 43-year-old former student opened fire at Oikos University in Oakland, California. One Goh was charged with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, but psychiatric evaluations concluded he suffered from long-term paranoid schizophrenia and was unfit to stand trial” (ABC7).

Of 62 mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and 2012, 49 of the shooters

On October 1, 2017 America was, yet again, devastated when Las Vegas suffered the United States worst mass shooting. One man killed over 50 people and injured 527. After he was finished firing from the 39th floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort, he committed suicide. His name was Stephan Paddock (Yan and Park). When most people think of a mass shooting, they think of a terroristic act or someone shooting at a large group of innocent citizens, like Columbine High School or Sandy Hook Elementary School. In actuality, most people do not realize that whenever two or more people are injured or killed by a gun, it is considered a mass shooting. These “mass shootings” happen every day in America and they are one of the leading causes of death in

I. As we do not have an exact definition of mass shooting, but some federal agency defines a "mass shooting" as when four or more people have been killed in the same location.

Pictures can be powerful tools. With being universal, it allows many to interpret and be able to understand what is going on. Many pictures can speak so loudly without any words. Each and every one will interpret pictures different, but will be able to find the same underline cause. Some of the stronger images come from ones that are taken during or after a horrific event. Unfortunately, on June 12, 2016 there was a shooting in a nightclub that took a number of lives and change many more. The photos taken from that night spoke of horror and heartbreak.

Most history about this subject really only goes back 70 years ago. Before that, no one knew what mass shooting were. These events were not committed during these times. This subject is a relatively new concept that is mainly found in the U.S. In a recent study, it shows that we are the leading country for mass-shootings (Willingham). Following our country is the Philippines, with a difference of 72 (Willingham). But it does not stop there, these events are counting with new mass shootings like the Las Vegas Shooting, which is now the largest one in our country's history with over 50 deaths and over 500 injuries (Yan, et. al.). Even though these shootings are not near Thomasville. They are everywhere. They could easily strike in our town and no one would be able to plan. Most of these events are mainly located in California, Florida, and Illinois, and following that is Texas, Alabama, and Georgia (Willingham) One of the first mass

On December 14, 2012, a twenty-year-old man named Adam Lanza had opened fire at the “Sandy Hook Elementary School” in Newtown, Connecticut. It had been reported that he shot and killed twenty children from the ages six and seven, and six more adults who were the school staff and faculty. It was later found out that he had also shot and killed his mother in her own home whilst she was sleeping. In 2016, on June 12, a twenty-nine-year-old man, Omar Saddiqui Mateen, also shot and killed forty-nine people and injured fifty-nine others at a nightclub named “Pulse” in Orlando, Florida. And, in a recent tragedy on October 1, 2017, a sixty-four-year-old man named Stephen Paddock shot fifty-eight people and injured five-hundred-forty-six others in Las Vegas, Nevada. These people were enjoying their time at a concert near the Mandalay Bay hotel where Paddock had planned to open fire from the thirty-second floor in room one-hundred-thirty-five. These are just three out of the many mass shootings that have occurred over the past years, and we’ve all had enough of it.

Since 1982 there has been at least 85 mass shootings in the US, since the year 2006 there has been 48 alone. The first mass shooting was on September 5th, 1949 in a neighborhood and the killer was Howard Unruh killing 13 people including 3 children. In the recent mass shootings there has been the Pulse nightclub in Orlando Florida on June 12, 2016 and the shooting in Las Vegas that happened last week. Between these two mass shootings they are ranked the most deadliest mass shootings in US history, with Orlando killing 49 and wounding 58 and Las Vegas killing 58 and wounding 489.