Mass shootings have been a growing epidemic in the past years in the United States. According to CNN between the years 1966 and 2017 there have been 90 Mass Shootings in the United States; with the shootings more likely to occur at the workplace or at schools(1). But why is this happening? Why are unlikely citizens rising up and performing such vulgar actions? What truly has people baffled is what is causing people to commit such a horrific act of violence? We are baffled because we don’t understand
rape, kidnapping. The commonality between these crimes are the perpetrators with immoral intentions to do harm. Recently, the Texan city of Sutherland Springs suffered through a terrifying mass shooting at the First Baptist Church, resulting in numerous deaths of innocent church-goers. With the Las Vegas mass shooting occurring not too long before this tragic incident, fear strikes into the hearts of Americans and demands against gun control are being made. The question becomes, though, what should be
A mass shooting in Las Vegas at a country music concert, a shooting in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, along with many more throughout the States in the past 5 years. Some people say more gun control is the answer to all of these mass shootings, while others say less gun control and a better knowledge of weapons and firearms for the common individual is the answer. Putting more background checks, and restrictions on guns might be the ideal way to fight shootings, or it might just fuel more
deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill led to the increase of mass shootings experienced in the US? According to Lankford, several reports suggest that up to 60% of offenders of mass shootings in the US since 1970, exhibited symptoms including depression, delusions, and acute paranoia prior to the commission of their crimes. Further statistics have shown that since 1982, there have been at least 71 public mass shooting across the country; with 34 of these mass shooting having occurred since 2006. A recent analysis
America is in crisis with the current rise of mass shootings. Many times society will use mental illness as a scapegoat for what the shooters did. One must wonder if it is in fact the mental illness a person has or just society’s view of the mentally ill that brings people to the conclusion that the mentally ill are the perpetrators of mass shootings. The perception is that the mentally ill are unstable, not understood and perhaps not cognizant of their actions or in touch with reality. These ideas
MacLeish, 60 percent of perpetrators of mass shootings in the US since 1970 displayed symptoms of paranoia, delusions, and depression before committing the crimes (246). Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza, was diagnosed with schizophrenia a few days after the shooting, and James Holmes, the Aurora, California movie theatre shooter was seeing a psychiatrist for schizophrenia before his shooting (Metzl and MacLeish 246). About half of mass shootings are done by people who have been declared to have a severe
of the shooting, people are still talking about it months later. Within the month afterwards four more mass shootings occurred as opposed to a single one the previous month (Gun Violence Archive). Why the sudden increase in mass shootings? This particular shooting brought a lot of attention and media time, but it’s not the only one people have heard about. It seems almost as if there is a shooting every day. Media has the tendency to over exaggerate the amount and severity of shootings. Reporting
on the news today, from mass shootings to murder almost every day. The violence happening should have schools and work places concerned and working better security to their environment. Mass shootings that have occurred over the years such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School, Aurora Movie Theater and the University of California had shooter that had been diagnosed with one or more mental issue. In the article by Jonathan Metzel, he explained each of the three shootings that are listed above in
homicides have dropped 39 percent, but in recent years we have noticed a large increase in mass shootings? What is a mass shooting defined as? Mass shootings are defined as a public attack in which the shooter and the victims are generally unknown to each other and four or more people are killed. “Harvard studies show that mass shootings are occurring on average every 64 days and during the previous 29 years, mass shootings occurred on average every 200 days” (Ansari). Americans tend to put the blame to lack
The world we live in today is corrupted with people whose motives are unethical and what some people would call unpredictable. Today’s generation is growing up in darkness where nobody can even dream of the light. Mass shootings are happening more commonly and actions aren’t being taken into initiative. Morals, are a person 's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do. A person with basic moral principles can see it’s not acceptable for someone to shoot