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Anthony Maschke
ENC 1101
29 November 2015
Prevention Of School Shootings
Having less strict gun laws in America as a whole can help to limit the incidents of school shootings. People chalk shootings up to many different things and say that if we have more laws, less people would have gun or commit crime. What about states and cities with strict laws? What if there is more security or teachers were allowed to carry? Studies have been done to see if people themselves are the cause of the violence instead of just blaming the weapons. Forming physical and mental deterrents will produce the best results to preventing violence. According to “USA Today”, there was a 40 percent increase in shootings in Chicago within the last year. Chicago
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This is made possible because some schools allow their faculty to conceal carry on campus. Taking Texas for example, Texas has very loose gun laws and schools in Texas allow the concealment of firearms on campus. Texas also has one of the lowest rates for gun violence, especially at schools. People fear the possibility of not succeeding even if it is in mass killing, so they will typically avoid the situation because of the fear of death. It might not be dying itself but possibly dying and not accomplishing the task. Either way, the violence is deterred because there are people in place willing to fight for their life and the lives of others. In 2015 alone, the site “RT” shows Texas having half the school shooting incidents as compared to California… who again has stricter laws pertaining to guns. An easier approach to avoid situations or “fear of safety” because an officer has a gun is the metal detector and physical searches. In this situation a security guard simply runs the metal detector and like with airlines, performs “pat-down” searches when required. This is a weaker deterrent but never the less a deterrent. People will argue that their rights are being violated with this method but in
Although most colleges allow students to bring guns on campus they do not allow them to be brought into class or administrative buildings. Many gun advocates would like to see gun normalized everywhere and a good way to that is to implement that is when people are young and developing their values and understanding of the world. The passing of campus carry laws have exploded in recent years favoring strong proponents the theory, if we provide the law to allow students and faculty to carry we remove gun free zones. Therefore protecting the population on campuses with the thinking that mass shooters prey on those schools with gun free zones. Several of the deadliest
According to the video, there are many ways we can do to prevent the school shooting. First, never bully others. You many bully other just for fun, but you can’t image how much damage will be made to others by you rude behavior. Second, pay more attention to people around you. Just like the video shown, if you notice somebody show the signs of gun violence, you may have a talk with him(her), try to understand what he(she) is thinking and help him(her) release his(her) repression, and get out of his(her) own depressed world. Or you may tell teachers to help that person. Third, to be nice with the person who has communication problem. Those people usually feel they are inferior, don’t be respected by others. That causes they feel hopeless. Therefore,
Thirteen people were killed at Columbine High School in 1999, thirty-three died during the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, and twenty-seven people, twenty of whom were children no older than seven, were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 (Kirk). These name only a few of the larger and most well-known school shooting incidences. In total, 297 people have lost their lives due to school-based shootings since 1980 (Kirk). Although this number may be small in comparison to death by guns overall, these instances are completely unwarranted and it is likely that they could have been avoided or at the very least reduced. These people, college and high school students, teachers, and even children, might still be alive today if our
School shootings have become well known around the world due to the coverage by the media. . These shootings are a serious concern and have parents constantly concerned about their child’s safety when they are at school and also have students thinking twice about any unusual or suspicious behavior. The media appears to play a large part in school shootings and it is important to analyze the deviant behaviors of the shooters in these horrific instances and the fear they create in schools. Does the media play a large part in school shootings or does the media play a large part in the sensationalism of school shootings and the fear they create both in schools and with parents?
To start, schools are fairly easy targets for shooters. Usually, there is one or two school police officers with handguns at most. And with most school’s large sizes, it’s not hard to get by
On February 21, 2018, survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in addition to family members of the victims met with President Donald Trump in the White House. They shared personal accounts of how the school shooting had affected them and urged President Trump to makes sure that it will never happen again. While listening to the bereaved students and parents, President Trump offered his own ideas about how to prevent school shootings like allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons. At the end of the session. President Trump announced that he would make sure that their stories would not go unheard.
In fact, countries that have strengthened their gun laws after tragic school shootings have seen a dramatic decrease in them reoccurring. Adam Gopnik in his “Shootings” article described what happened when the British changed their gun laws, “In Dunbane, Scotland, in 1996, a gunman killed sixteen children and a teacher at their school. Afterward, the British gun laws, already restrictive, were tightened … and nothing like Dunbane has occurred there since” (2). A similar event happened in Quebec, Canada which resulted in a prompt response from the government, leading to far less shootings and fewer casualties (Gopnik 2). Screening potential threats and cutting them off from access to guns
In order to solve the problem of violence in schools, we must first find out who the problem is. Being that not every teenager is prone to participate in such violent acts as what happened at Columbine, there must be specific environment imposed on a particular biology to turn a teenager into an Eric Harris or a Dylan Klebold. These are not normal, healthy teenagers, and they don’t just become killers overnight. They become killers because they are already deeply disturbed individuals who can be sent over the edge by all sorts of innocuous influences. Violent teens often have specific characteristics that put them at high risk for committing these crimes. These high risked students may display some of the following traits. First,
According to President Trump, arming teacher with guns will become the solution to school shootings. Presently, thirty-two mass shooting have taken place all over the states of America since the year 2005. In fact, the most recent occurred the fourteenth of February this year, 2018, in Florida. Nikolas Cruz, the school shooter, previously attended Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and reportedly suffers from mental illnesses which may contribute to his motives.
This is an advertisement that on gun control that came out a couple years ago by an organization called "Moms Demand Action". This shows two kids in a classroom, one with an assault rifle and the other holding a Kinder Chocolate egg. The add asks which is illegal in the US.
You’ve probably heard of it lately, its been all over the news, social media, even involved students walking out to support the cause. Without firearms how will we protect ourselves, most importantly our family? Some find it very controversial, but it's honestly not at all
If we look back at Sandy Hook last year, first grade teacher and hero Victoria Soto, who was shot and killed after hiding her kids in a closet and told the gunman the kids were in gym, might still be alive had she been armed and able to defend herself. (Siebold, 2013) The matter of the fact is that the location of shooter will forever be unknown and people need to be prepared to defend themselves wherever an incident takes place. It is stated that two out of ten security guards in the United States carry weapons on them. My question is what about the other eight security guards? They are made extremely vulnerable to an attacker. The controversial debate is why would teachers and faculty need to carry guns when there are enough security guards? The majority of the nation's school children attend classes in schools that are considered large. Approximately 70 percent of high-school-age children attend schools with more than 1,000 students; nearly 50 percent attend schools with more than 1,500. (Agron, 2003, p. 1) The amount of students in each school in the United States compared to the two to four security guards that work in each location is not a sufficient amount to provide adequate protection for the employees and students within the
True, murder and terrorism won't ever stop even if the strictest laws were passed. Criminals will obtain anything they need to perpetuate their crime. As a country, we should initially focus on enforcing safer school campuses. Children should never have to hear about school shootings on the news. Unfortunately, that is America's reality. Think about the children in your life, whether your own, younger siblings, nieces or nephews, and sending them off to school and hearing about an active shooting at their school. It's terrifying to imagine, but this has been happening to families across America. Increasing the requirements for acquiring a gun, will make getting a gun more difficult in general. If you're lawfully using your gun, then why should
In the past few years, school violence has gone up significantly. This leaves people with the question of, what is the reason for this? Many sources say that one of the reasons is social isolation with teens. isolationism is one of the main factors to school shootings because being ostracized, neglected, abused, bullied and devalued in societies are its foundations. Social isolation over prolonged periods of time leads to the deep entanglement of negative emotions.
The school shootings at Westside Middle School were orchestrated by two juveniles. On Monday, March 30, 1998 two boys ambushed students and teachers outside Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Andrew Golden a youth of 11 years and Mitchell Johnson who was 13 years old were responsible for this hideous tragedy. Apparently, Mitchell Johnson hid in the woods while Andrew set off the fire alarm causing the students and teachers to run out of the building. Armed with three stolen rifles and four handguns, the documentary explained that the two youth flushed kids and teachers out of the school by means of a false fire alarm then opened up on them. When they stopped shooting, four students and a teacher lay dead and 10 students were