crime which is defines as the use/threat of force on others. One of the most prevalent type of violent crime we hear on the news are shootings. With shootings quickly becoming more and more frequent, the question of why we are the only country with this issue is always brought up for discussion. For this project, we asked a class of students from Sweden to help answer the question of whether frequent shootings are prevalent over there in Sweden and the reasoning behind why this does or doesn’t happen
School shootings used to be very rare. They were seen on the news, and read about in the newspaper, but nobody in upstate South Carolina ever thought one would occur nearby. On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, a young teenager released fire on innocent people at Townville Elementary School. It was unexpected, tragic, and downright devastating to everyone across the nation. The shooter, who also murdered his father before travelling to the elementary school, was charged with murder and three counts
a world where school shootings did not exist. Parents could send their children to school without having to worry about them being shot. In 2013, thirty school shootings took place in the United States. The most devastating school shooting in U.S. history was the Bath School shooting. On May 18, 1927, Andrew Kehoe entered the Bath Elementary School killing thirty-eight people and injuring fifty-eight. Kehoe then returned to his truck, and committed suicide by using explosives. School teachers would
lost their lives that night; this recent shooting has been reported as the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history (Park, Las Vegas Investigation ). Police have reported that they found at least 19 guns, and 500 rounds of ammunition in his hotel room. These deadly events continue to happen and are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s society. Gun control has been a
High school should be the time of your life. Being a kid should be prime time before becoming an adult with different types of stress. However, Tolan (2005) has said “Estimates are that 25% of the 150 million child visits per year for primary health care (non-mental-health and other specialties) have a psychological problem associated with the presenting problem” (pg.604). These numbers are shocking for some. This percentage may be even higher. With mental illness, numbers and data is altered because
Others are overblown, such as assuming all schools will allow teachers to have guns. Without some of these pre-given premises of the authors, these articles do not work as well as the writers might have intended or wanted, and when picked apart, seem quite extreme. In the United States, there is a legitimate fear of children going to school and getting shot by a mass murderer. Some groups think the answer is to arm teachers, while others do not want more guns around young students. M. D. Anderson
How Campus Gun Controls Empower Criminals Thomas Valadez Critical Thinking Comm-1270 Virginia Tech Massacre is recorded as the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunmen in U.S. history. According to Everytown.org, since December of 2012 there have been more than 120 school shootings, 55 of which happened on a college campus. The public wants to prevent future attacks but have very different desired methods. On one side you have the gun control advocates
Don’t be a conformist. Don’t be common. Be an individual. Conformity, although prevalent in society past and present, is never the answer. As individuals, we were made to be unique. Our insight alone is greater than the elementary principles of the crowd. However, if we conform to societal beliefs, as many of the racists did in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (Harper Lee), then what are we? Uneducated, crowd-pleasing citizens who won’t form our own values. The inability to form our own values causes everyone
It happened again, another school shooting to join the likes of Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook. Just when it seems it cannot get any worse, reports of another school shooting dominate the airwaves. On December 7, 2017, at a high school in Aztec, New Mexico, twenty-one-year-old, William Atchinson, disguised himself as a student and entered the school at 8:00 a.m. He hid in a bathroom until his first victim, football player, Francisco Fernandez came in. He then shot and killed cheerleader, Casey
Mass shootings are one form of evil that has become an increasing part of our society since the 60s. Although these shootings have happened many times over the years, people still wonder and debate why they occur. Due to the large number of explanations people have come up with over the years, there is no one particular cause as to why these mass shootings happen. Rather, it is a group of many explanations which all contribute to the social evil of a mass shooting. One of the causal explanations