Reaction Paper On Copycat Violence

"We are dealing with the largest mass shooting in our state's history," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Tegna) On a peaceful November morning during a “Sunday service at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.” (Grinberg) A young man across the street from the church “was dressed in black "tactical-type gear" and wearing a ballistic vest he crossed the street in his car, got out and began firing he entered the church and continued shooting.”(Grinberg) During this time “a man who lives next door to the church grabbed his own rifle and engaged the suspect, The gunman dropped his "Ruger AR assault-type rifle" and fled. The neighbor chased after the gunman, police said. The chase ended when the shooter crashed his car about eight miles from

Gunmans in Mass shootings such as Stephen Paddock was the shooter on October 1, 2017 When he opened fire during a show he had killed 59 people and injured 527 people. In the hours after the retired accountant committed the shooting, authorities rolled out frightening new details, including the discovery of scopes on rifles at the resort and explosives at his home.A team of six officers spoke with security at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where Paddock was staying, and searched the hotel floor-by-floor Sunday night before they found Paddock's room, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters.

On November 5, the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Devin Patrick Kelley shot at the church. The shooting killed at least 26 people, with many more wounded.

United States history of deadly massacres. Gun violence has always been a hot topic because of constant crimes involving firearms over the years. Recent history has alluded even more debate to possibly create or reform even more gun laws. In the story of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, the New York Times addressed what had happened. This shooting killed twenty six people, twenty in which were children ranging from the ages of five to ten years old. Adam Lanza, who ended up committing suicide, was identified as the gunman who was armed with semiautomatic pistols and a semiautomatic rifle. Another example is from the Los Angeles Times that covered a 2012 Colorado shooting in a movie theater. The gunman, suspected to be James E. Holmes, killed twelve people and injured dozens more in the shooting in a packed movie theater in Aurora. Authorities said Holmes was dressed in full body armor and used a form of tear gas on the crowd before opening fire with multiple guns. In addition, the most recent shooting occurred on May 2014 in Isla Vista near the University of Santa Barbara. This shooting resulted in seven deaths, thirteen wounded, and the murderer himself a gunshot wound to his head. He used three semiautomatic handguns and more than four hundred rounds of ammunition at his side. The recent history of shooting massacres is only a sample size of the whole history of gun violence in

second deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. done by a single person since the Virginia Tech

Sunday, October 1, 2017, thousands of people gathered at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas for a country music festival. At 10:08pm, gunman, Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the hotel just above the field aiming at the thousands of innocent people. Paddock fired constant rounds for about 10-15 minutes, taking 58 innocent lives, injuring over 500, and then taking his own life. This is now considered the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

In this article, “At least 26 dead in shooting at Texas church,” Dakin Andone, Kaylee Hartung, and Darran Simon discuss the tragic shooting that took place in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The shooter was a 26-year-old named Devin Patrick Kelley. He was a member of the US Air Force, but received a bad conduct discharge in 2014 and served a year in prison for assault on his wife and son. After the shooting, Kelley was found dead in his vehicle. It is still unclear whether or not he was shot by a neighbor or inflicted the injury on himself. 26 people died in this shooting and another 20 were injured. The ages of the victims range from 5 to 72 years old. This town is described as a place where “everybody knows everybody,” (Andone

The culprit was Dylann Roof and he used a .45-caliber Glock pistol that he purchased legally(Buchanan). According to Buchanan, two months before Roof purchased a gun, he was charged with a misdemeanor for possessing drugs. "Mr. Roof should have been barred from buying a gun because he had admitted to possessing drugs, but the F.B.I. examiner conducting the required background check failed to obtain the police report from the February incident" (Buchanan). When Roof bought the gun, he should have been stopped but the seller failed to do so. "The young man typically kept to himself but a liter of vodka that night seemed to fuel talk about the return of segregation and vague plans "to start a race war," Meek recalled"(Sanchez). Meek, one of Roof's friends would tell him about how he wanted racism and segregation to come back and to 'start a race war' if that's what it takes. On June 17, 2015, Roof entered a historical black church and killed nine people. According to CNN, the nine victims were Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Tywanza Sanders, Rev. Sharonda Singleton, Cynthia Hurd, Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Ethel Lance, Susie Jackson, Myra Thompson, and Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr. that survived the shooting but died in surgery. All these people died because one racist shooter wanted to start a 'race war'. Hate crimes are intents in mass shootings but they are not the only intent. Mass shooters are also murderers with mental

Twenty-one children were injured and four young girls lost their lives that day. [Figure 1]

A massive shooting happened in Las Vegas at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The shooter fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. 58 people were killed and over 500 people were injured. Witnesses said that it lasted around 15 minutes. The suspect was a 64 year old man named Stephen Paddock, who he is now dead according to authorities. After the first shots, many people got into their cars to pick up others to save them and give them cover. Some people got on top of others to save them and take a bullet for them. Others pushed civilians to the side and saved them from getting shot.

One sunday in Sutherland Springs at about 11am there was a mass shooting at a local church. Devin Kelly a member from the US Air Force and put in a mental health hospital. After escaping the hospital Kelly got a rifle and all blacked out tactical gear and went to the church and started shooting. He thought his mother in law was in the church and wanted to shoot her but she was not in there, instead his wife's grandmother was in there. A man who lives across the street heard the gun shots and went out there with his gun and shot him. The shot did not kill him but it did in fact scare him, and he took off in his car drove away and soon lost control and the police got him.

Six victims were killed instantly. Two others died later. And more than a dozen are trying to recover as the country grapples with yet another terror attack.

This paper will be written on the shooting that took the lives of 26 innocent people at First Baptist Church in Texas church November 5, 2017. Devin Patrick Kelley was identified

Las Vegas, On Sunday night, a domestic terrorist , utilizing weapons suited for the fight to come, focused from the 32nd story of a Las Vegas hotel and shot down on a country music festival – killing 58 individuals, more than 500 injured and sending a pack of 22,000 fleeing for their lives New York, A 29-year-old man drove a rental truck bicycle way along the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan in New York City Tuesday, killing eight individuals and harming 11 in the deadliest attack on the city since 9/11. Sutherland Springs A shooter clad in all dark, with a ballistic vest lashed to his chest and a military-style rifle in his grasp, opened discharge on parishioners at a Sunday service at a little Baptist church in rustic Texas, killing 26 individuals and transforming this small town east of San Antonio into the scene of the nation's newest mass atrocity .

Physical assault and aggression is the second leading cause of death among 14 to 17 year olds, next to vehicular accidents (Loeber). But why are humans so aggressive in the first place? There are two sides of the debate: Nature, and Nurture. Some say that it’s human nature, genetics that cause most behaviors, while others say that we act as we learned during childhood. This argument applies to aggression as well. Aggression is mainly caused by things during childhood and adolescence where people learn from various sources about aggression, although, human psychology plays a slight factor.