Mass Shootings in Schools

Mass shootings have become one of the most fearful events that could happen in elementary schools, high schools, and College campuses. These violent actions committed by a number of individuals have happened for many years and will continue happening unless prevented. Individuals like James Holmes opened fire in a Colorado movie theater, killing twelve individuals and injuring twenty, John Sawahri shot five students dead in Santa Monica College also injuring four individuals. However Eric Harris

Protecting our Schools from Mass Shootings Six adults and twenty students would soon lose their lives due to one man with crazy unexpected intentions (N.pg.). With all the hustle and bustle of the morning air, who would've ever thought that the security of a small elementary school needed to be safer than ever. Newtown’s safety was under no one’s control because of less security and staff who were not prepared at the time (Sandy Hook Families). So how can the security become fixed when its already

seniors, infiltrated their high school, set off bombs and murdered twelve students and one teacher, and injured twenty-four others. This attack also injured, traumatized, and scarred relatives and witnesses of this mass shooting because of its enormity. Former President Bill Clinton gave a speech about the massacre to shed light on the danger of school shootings, and mass shootings in general. In another text, a survivor named Samuel Granillo, survived the mass shooting by barricading himself and sixteen

Columbine and Virginia Tech were definitely two of the biggest, but not one of the first mass shootings on school grounds. On August 1, 1966, a mass shooting took place at the University of Texas. A 25 ex-marine named Charles Whitman, who majored in architectural engineering, murdered his mother and wife that morning. Whitman climbed on top of the UT Tower and started firing. “The crime scene spanned the length of five city blocks… and covered the nerve of what was then a relatively small, quiet

In 2015, there were 353 mass shootings and 62 schools shootings in the United States of America. On top of this, nearly sixty percent of homicides since 2015 were committed through the use of firearms and although there are no official figures, it is estimated that there are about 300 million guns, or approximately 88 for everyone 100 persons (Gunter). Although correlation cannot prove causation, the United States almost doubles most other developed countries assault deaths rates per one hundred

Schools were once treated as a haven,but between 10 years, the amount of student shootings has dramatically risen from 43 to 101. Now people think that we need to go back to the barbaric saying of ‘kill or be killed’, but there are more ways to skin a cat - and more ways of controlling this horrid situation. Teachers should have the choice of whether or not to have guns. Some teachers don’t want to bare the burden of having to kill someone. Mrs. Frye from Waupun Area Junior/Senior High strongly hinted

arguments about mass school shootings, and mass school shooters. The first key argument would be that school shooters have a “type”. According to the article, school shooters are most likely to be young white men who feel as though they have been oppressed by their peers or society. Kalish and Kimmel’s second argument in their article was to say that humiliation is emasculation; “If you humiliate someone, you take away his manhood” (Page 454). Young white men decide to conduct a school shooting due to their

In this article, the authors provide information on past mass school shootings and introduce new theories that relate to those school shootings. The authors also discuss and analyze characteristics between the different shootings with regard to the shooters’ lives and personality, the time periods of the shootings and also the schools and people who fell victim to the shootings. By doing this, the article gives greater insight to shooter profiles and it helps the reader find reoccurring themes and

now today, do students feel safe in the school that they are attending? With all these atrocious mass school shootings that have happened so far this year of 2018 is quite oppressive. Parents are sending their kids to school not knowing if they are going to get to see them when the school day is finished, something a parent should never have to apprehend. Keeping the schools tended is a task that doesn't just happen over night, in my opinion, keeping schools secure is something that will happen over

cause, bluntly, is as tired as that of the school shooting: a headline per month on the latest tragedy has become a common occurrence in contemporary media. America, as a collective, mourns for an immediate period, cursing the malicious gun-wielder, until the story vanishes from the limelight, waiting to repeat itself again. One of the most prominent types of shootings are those on college campuses. In 2015 alone, there have been twenty-three shootings on college campuses (Sanburn 2015). Time after