Mass School Shootings: A Case Study

Research in school shootings have been administered in many categories, including sociology, psychology, and etc. past studies, and direct later studies in school shootings, offers a sociology stand point for understanding the differences of school shooting incidents, including rampage shootings, mass murders shootings, and examining the mass media dynamic of school shootings; as well as presenting a combination of causes said in the research, including those on the individual, community, and social

of homicide, and most of these homicides tend to come from shootings. Now, when an officer is dispatch to a crime scene they have to take a detail report, but being that they are human sometimes they may miss or do not report everything in writing. When this happens it can create a gap in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program system once it is sent to them for statistical recording. Within this paper we will examine how school shootings with the hope of gain an understanding of how data reporting

School Action Plans for Mass Shootings Prepared for Professor Ann Alexander Grand Rapids Community College Grand Rapids, Michigan Prepared by Laura Fidler March 25, 2018 Memo To: Professor Ann Alexander From: Laura Fidler Date: March 25, 2018 Subject: Report on School Action Plans for Mass Shootings Here is the report that you assigned at the beginning of the semester. I did research to find out what other schools are doing, as well as interviewed our own Chief of Police here on campus

Columbine High School. When asked to name a victim of the Columbine massacre, most people cannot produce a name but can name the shooters: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Too often do Americans and citizens of the world remember the perpetrators of tragedies rather than the victims themselves. In an article published by Newsweek written by Max Kutner named “Mass Shootings and News Media: A Connection?”, Anderson Cooper stated in an on air interview following the 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora,

Humanities 11/29/17 Mass shooting at schools and city streets in the US as a Plague According to Mother (n.p), mass shooting at schools and city streets in the US has evidently turned out to be the most disturbing trend that is increasing. Numerous fires have occurred in several public spaces and have received the media coverage which gave the certain perception that gun violence is becoming the new norms (Beckett et al, n.p). One can trace the history of the mass shooting that has been experienced

children were all killed from accidental shootings, within 2 days. Ida Villegas-Hernandez. Abby Villegas-Hernandez. Cynthia Janet Villegas-Hernandez. These three children were all killed by Their Dad, Juan David Villegas-Hernandez in their own home. This act is only one example where easy access to guns can result in such a

situations and can even commit very dangerous crimes, such as murder. Major depression is a more severe case of depression it is a feeling of sadness that continues on and on and a feeling of hopeless with lack of interest in anything and in every life activities. This affects the way you think and feel, and also certain behaviors lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. In most cases depression does not lead to the murder of others but to the murder of themselves, many people who attempt

are a major problem in the USA because of the way people have been using them. For the past few years, shootings have increased and more people are injured or killed because of gun-related violence. Some problems are the easy accessibility of guns where children would use it to attempt suicide or bring it to school, domestic abuse where the man shoot woman and the possibility of mass shootings. To remedy this dilemma, there are proposals to fund a gun-safety program and an increase background checks

Advocating for mental health screenings would be less politically controversial than arguing for stricter gun laws however it would still be difficult to effectively implement the policy. Recent studies have shown that a majority of mass shooters have some form of mental health disorder or suffer from suicidal thoughts. Diagnosing and treating is often difficult because many do not visit the doctor on a regular basis making it impossible for them to be labeled as mentally ill; suicide rates have

recommending solutions to the problem of gun violence, and more specific, public mass shootings. That is when 20-year old tall and lanky man named Adam Lanza made his way to the Sandy Hook Elementary School and cold-bloodedly murdered 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members. Minutes before, he shot dead his own mother at their Newtown home… It was not neither first nor last of wanton mass killings of strangers/innocent bystanders (children) with deliberate attempt