Persuasive Essay On Campus Violence

The United States FBI defines hate crimes as “a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias.” This type of bigotry-driven crime has been a huge issue in the area of politics and justice ever since history began. Such crimes have become increasingly visible over the years due to the advances in technology, and social networking sites that have given a new platform to these issues. As the visibility of hate crime conditions become commonplace, they also become easily identifiable in everyday life. The issue that then arises is that these conditions have not yet become illegal to the degree that they should be held to. Hate crimes should be held at a higher penalty, at the federal level, due to the nature and intent of the crime at hand.

Columbine High school 12 students and 1 teacher dead, Thurston High School 2 dead and 25 wounded, Sandy Hook Elementary 20 children and 6 teachers dead, Virginia Tech University 32 dead and 17 wounded and Umpqua Community College 9 dead and 9 wounded. After the Thurston shooting happened, we took necessary precautions so we would be prepared for an incident like again. Yet Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and Umpqua happened anyway. Even though we implemented ALICE training in order to be safer, hiding with entries blocked won’t be enough in some cases especially if the police take a long time to get to the school and stop the shooter. There are a couple ways that would not only make the school safer but also stop the shooter quicker so we can save more lives and not have to wait for the police to arrive. One solution we can do is give teachers and staff that haven’t had any experience with guns at least basic training in the use of guns

A graduate student leaving an evening class walks along the poorly lit sidewalk to the parking lot—it is a long, cold walk in the pitch-black night, and the student grows wary as shadows begin lurking in the distance. Suddenly, someone jumps out in front of the student, immediately threatening her with force. Before the student can react, she is raped and robbed. This is a very scary scenario, and one that happens on the SCSU campus every year. It seems like every week we get an e-mail citing another attack on students somewhere on or near campus. However, all of these attacks could be prevented if we allow students to carry guns as a means of self-defense.

Despite federal laws issued to combat sexual violence, each year 4,000 college women report to school officials that they've been sexually assaulted. What happens after they file those reports has stirred debate on campuses across the country, leaving parents and students fearful that colleges may not be the ivory towers of security and integrity that appear on their recruitment pamphlets.

Chaos erupted on the Virginia Tech campus as the actions of a lone gunman claimed the lives of 33 innocent students on April 16, 2007. What if 5 or 10 of those 33 people had a weapon on them at the time of the shooting? Would it have changed the outcome? In the last few years, there has been growing violence on US campuses. For example, the Columbine High massacre in 1999, where two students killed 13 and wounded many others. Another example is the University of Iowa shooting where a former student shot and killed four students and wounded one. The campuses of America need to be secured. Students should be able to secure their campus “home” and exercise their 2nd amendment rights in the event of an attack on their campus.

There have been a lot of shootings and there has to come a day where everything has to stop gun violence. Recently there has been a shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was recently a mass shooting on October 1, 2017. At about 10:08 p.m. a country concert was active in Las Vegas. Everybody was enjoying their day and the music, they were having so much fun but little did they know what was about to happen. A shooter came out in front of 22,000 people from the 33rd floor. Killing at least 59 people and leaving 500 wounded. It was a very sad thing to hear because there was so many people who lost their life without even having any clue that they were going to die that day. So many people as well got seriously hurt during this incident that this one man caused. There was innocent people who shouldn’t have gone through what happened that day. Now there will be more security to make sure things like this don’t happen anymore or to at least help gun violence decrease. They listed this as an attack but it should be counted as a terrorist attack no matter the color of skin.

Gun violence has made quite an appearance on social media and major news outlets in America this year. When the Second Amendment was created it generated a permanent bond between citizens and gun. As a result of this many citizens take pride in owning a gun for mainly self-defense and recreational uses. However, this is a big issue due to all of the violence that has been occurring due to people exercising their “right to bear arm” and the loopholes in the nation’s gun laws. According to Gun Violence Archive, about 48 mass shooting incidents have occurred just in 2018. There has been at least 14 school shootings this year. Purchase of weapons has been so rapid, that there is no accurate account of fire arms in the society. The United States

Although some students believe that more weapons is the answer to the problem, this is not as simple as fighting fire with fire. One problem that more weapons may cause is that if the unfortunate situation ever arises where there is a shooter on campus, mass confusion will ensue with the many students carrying guns. Although Hollywood may say otherwise, not all “bad guys” wear black masks and trench coats. Those students carrying weapons wouldn’t know who was good or bad and the rest of the students would potentially be surrounded by wannabe Special Forces operatives. From this confusion, only

As we all know gun violence has become an increasingly conflicted issue in the world and specifically in the United States. Gun violence is the leading cause of premature death in the United States as it kills almost 30,000 people and causes about 60,000 injuries annually. But guns are not the main cause of this problem. The problem is America's culture of violence. We need to understand that guns are not what’s killing people, people are what’s killing people. Although guns may enable killers to commit an act of violence more easily and effectively, stricter laws on guns would not necessarily dismantle the problem. Currently, guns are just a symptom to the real problem, which is our violent human nature. For decades, we have been dousing

Gun violence is a prominent piece of American society, the growing statistics only support this statement. In just 2017 alone there has been over 47,856-gun related incidents and the number continues to increase daily. Beginning with the Sandy Hooks mass shooting, an elementary school massacre, there has been over 1,518 mass shootings over the past six years. Shannon Watts, a concerned parent after Sandy Hooks, established the gun reform chapter of Moms Demand Action. The organization wants to create awareness for creating gun reform legislations. They are supporters of the 2nd Amendment but are pushing to see solutions to help reduce the gun crisis in American society. In order to build responsiveness to this issue, they have created a photographic PSA with Americans as the audience in mind. The PSA is set inside of an elementary school library, with two little girls in the center of the frame holding one prop each. One of the girls is holding the book Little Red Riding Hood, and the other is holding an assault weapon. Moms Demand Action shocks the American audience by using the pathos within the visual appeal of the PSA to establish their mindset on gun violence reform.

Violence flourishes everywhere we go in today’s society. There is no way out and no way to escape it. Going to college, does not make you feel any safer than being outside of college. Mass shootings this year have increased, especially in school all over the United States. Even though, the shootings have been in most high schools, they can be on college campuses just as well. Gun concealment should be allowed on college campuses. We deserve the right to protect ourselves. We deserve to feel safe anywhere we go without any fear of harm. They cannot take the second amendment away from the people. Students and faculty need extra security when they cannot rely on the authorities to be there. Special requirements should be intact, but if concealing a gun to feel protected is strong, there will be no problem taking the requirements.

In recent local news there have been some alarming stories and actual city ordinances voted that pertain to the homeless population. Residents for the most part are aware of the unfortunately growing panhandling issues in the Victor Valley area, but that in itself is not a major concern. The major concern has become panhandling instances that have ended in violence, including a recent stabbing causing life-threatening injuries and another assault causing a broken jaw.

keep a close eye on racial Issues. Even though our way of punishing people for these crimes are ineffective and very unfair. Most laws are written to determine whether the person intentionally selected their victim or if it was a random act. The hate crime laws in California's, for example, says that any crime retaining to a certain race or even religious group, will ultimately call for harsher punishment to the criminal. There have even been a few times were people want to include violence against police a hate crime. (McLaughlin, 2017) Criminals who commit hate crimes target their victims, whether randomly or planned out. A few years ago, in Charleston SC, there was a young white male believed to be in some sort of white supremist group, walked into a predominantly black church and randomly opened fire before leaving. Police found the man and brought him into custody, a few weeks later he was sentenced to a few months in prison and is now on with his life. So, for discouraging racial influence on people would clearly have to start at an earlier age, to prevent further hate crimes would mean that we would need to teach young children the dangers of committing racially charged crimes. In New York, multiple bomb threats were called into Jewish communities, and group of lawmakers in that state pushed to secure more help to those victims of hate crimes. The hate crime legislation, recently passed by the democratic party, made an offense that if you were making graffiti, then it

School violence, in recent history, seems to have taken the United States by storm. Be it a shooting, such as the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, the inappropriate relationships between teacher and student, such as Stephanie Figueroa whom initiated one such relationship with her 11-year-old karate student, or the multiple fights we see on social media that take place in schools. With each passing week, we see a new story that falls in one of these categories. Today, we look at the types of, causes of and how to prevent violence in what should be a safe place and second home for our youth.

Topic: School Violence General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform what needs to be done to stop school violence. Central Idea: To inform the effects, causes, and solutions of school violence. INTRODUCTION:      Since the April 20, 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado I have been looking deeper into the issue of school violence. The number of extremely violent crimes committed by students has been increasing in the last few years.