Mass Shooting Incidents

Mass shootings have been occurring more and more over the past few years ”steadily declined between 1994 and 2007, rising between

Almost half of the population in the US are affected by mental health conditions every year. A diagnosable mental illness affects about 43 percent of the U.S. population at some point in their lives. 75 percent of youth are left with no or insufficient treatment. If mental illness is recognized early on, it can help citizens avoid large medical bills down the road and could help lessen the amount of homelessness, unemployment, suicides, shootings, bad decision making, etc.

It's no secret that shootings are a big problem within the United States, especially when comparing to other countries. Whether it be school shootings or mass shootings, it's become almost a regular occurrence. The more shootings that occur, more evidence increases relating gun violence to race. According to Statista, between 1982 and February 2018, 56 out of 97 mass shootings were the

Some people debate that environmental factors have a huge role in mass shootings. “The discussion of mass shootings in the news

The mental health system in The United States is flawed and needs serious reform. Many of the mentally ill are failing to seek the help that they need and deserve in a country like the U.S is baffling and must be reassessed. The system causes a rise in gun violence and more specifically, mass shootings. There are many factors that need to be taken into consideration when approaching mental disorders and their correlation with mass shootings. Things such as type of mental disorder, the widespread diagnosis in the US, masculinity in men, and gun laws themselves. This research was done through a series of articles, interviews, and books. Mental disorders need to be taken largely into consideration when trying to find a cause for a shooting, and

They are very politically inclined. The author establishes credibility because they give examples of other mass shootings as well as how many people died due to the Las Vegas shooting on October 1, giving some background information on it. The text is bias by selection because the way they have place the phrases and words to make them more appealing to the readers. They have used rhetorical analogy because they have compared all the mass shooting that have taken place in the recent years/months. This texts links to readers response because how they view guns as an issue since they did cause so much damage. “But it’s not an unfixable problem. New laws could at least limit the carnage when a murderer opens up on a crowd.We have decided that grenade launchers should not be widely available; why should we not say the same for devices that allow bullets to be fired at a rate of more than 400 rounds per minute?” The agenda being on how we can’t seem to have stricter regulations on guns and especially assault weapons like the ones used in all the mass shootings. On how they should really do something about gun regulations for the safety of the

Many news outlets and gun control advocates have been inflating the statistics for mass shootings by saying there has been more than one mass shooting per day (Follman). Mark Follman from Mother Jones claims “...many news outlets keep declaring that there have been upwards of ‘355 mass shootings this year’...it’s stirring undue fear and may be encouraging bad policies...if you count using the federal government’s current criteria...there have been six mass shootings this year”. By using the federal government’s definition of a mass shooting, the data proves that the media has been inflating the statistics by almost 6000%. Follman claims that the effect of this is it’s “stirring undue fear and may be encouraging bad policies”, showing that the media may be influencing the government itself. If the media influences the government in a negative way, then this subjectivity and false information should be controlled in order to have the government make the right

Before I begin to present my research on active shooting, I need to define exactly what an active shooter is. According to Domestic Security Alliance Council an active shooter is, “ an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and other populated areas,” (FBI 1). Because there are many different definitions of active shooters, there are many different statistics. According to the FBI data chart, that will be presented at the end of this research, there was 26 Active shootings in the year of 2010; where in the New York City Police Department (NYPD) study of active shootings there was 20 active shootings in the year of 2010. Note that the New York City Police Department Also Has A little bit of a

According to the past summaries ledgers provided by GunViolenceArchive.org the number of gun related incidents has increased over the past three years, along with the number of children deaths. Furthermore, as demonstrated by the charts, the number of deaths has been steadily increasing over the past three years by about 1,000 deaths, a crazy number that should be going in the opposite direction.

Gun violence is the most common type of crime that occurs on a regular basis. Despite having a decline in gun violence from 1992-2012, gun violence cases are still severely high. Kwon conducted a study to evaluate the effectiveness of the Brady Bill (1993). The study concluded that the existence of gun control laws had a deterrent effect on firearm deaths. However, the estimations of the actual effect may be lower than predicted by their regression model. Koper conducted a similar study on the effects of the 1994 Weapons Ban, and determined that it did not have a significant impact on gun violence. Webster examined public opinion polls and found that stricter gun regulation was more widely accepted after the Sandy Hook shooting. Studies show,

From 2000 to 2013 there was an average of approximately 15,629 murders in the country (Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], 2000-13). In the same time period approximately 35 deaths per year, or less than a quarter of one percent, were the results of an active shooter event. In 160 events 1,043 individuals were killed (47%) and wounded (53%). The federal government defines a mass homicide as the killing of three or more individuals. Only 64 of these events would have been classified as a mass

On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and 6 adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut. According to the Washington Post, we are now averaging more than one mass shooting a day. And yet, in the time since the major gun violence has been a part of the national discussion, seemingly little has overtly changed in the area of violence in entertainment and gun laws in some states may even have become more lenient Among the 11 deadliest shootings in U.S. history, more than half took place in the last 5 years.

5 years ago there was a boy named Bates who was involved in a mass shooting spree. When this case was covered by officials they never saw the reason why he did all of this. This all started on August 4 2014. A couple days before August fourth was his first day of 3rd grade when he murdered his parents with his own two hands during his rage episode. Police officers came over immediately to check the scene and there was no signs of who could’ve been. But seven year old Bates showed no signs of guilt, despair, or grief. He just sat there on the couch like nothing ever happened. Then, he said to the officers,” When will my mommy and daddy wake up?” The officers replied,” Not for long time son.” Supposedly this triggered something ominous in him as he started singing “Ring Around the Rosey”

Since August 1, 1966, there have been 146 mass shootings in the United States. This figure refers to shootings in which four or more people were killed (Berkowitz, B., Gamio, L,

There have been so many mass shootings on US soil since I’ve been born. I researched it and found out that in my 16 years of life there have been 37 mass shootings in the United States. All of them at the hands of some “unstable’ person who we often create a biography on in which they become a villain in our history or some misunderstood person that was the victim of bullying and a harsh society. After any horrific event, the media will