School Shootings In Schools

School violence is becoming a worldwide issue, but is a particular problem within the United States. Violence can occur in many ways such as; bullying, school gangs, physical attacks, and fatalities involved with guns. School shootings have been on the rise over the past several years. To bring awareness to school violence, teachers, staff, and parents need to be further trained in noticing warning signs of depression and anger issues which may lead to bullying and disrespectful learning environments for all parties. In addition to awareness within schools, the debate over gun control has been a topic discussed for many years in hopes to curb school shootings.

The reality of the situation is that there are many numbers of reasons that a school shooting may happen. There have been 142 school shootings in the United States since 2013, as indicated by a record made by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. There are many reasons we need to use for the reasons for school shootings however the most prevalent one is harassing.

When I think of school shootings my mind immediately goes back to the Columbine High school shooting. This was the first school shooting that I was actually old enough to remember and understand. I still remember having a moment of silence for all of those involved. The New world encyclopedia states “Columbine High School shooting was one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history. On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 13 people and wounded more than 20 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The incident drew worldwide attention. It led to widespread discussion over gun control and the prevention of school violence.” (Funk & Wagnalls) According to Wikipedia from 2011 to 2015 there has been

A sudden increase of youth violence in public schools in early 1990 has caused many to raise concerns about violent behaviors in schools. In the past, the most common form of violence that took place in schools was bullying, physical fights, or

Since 2013, there has been 242 school shootings, an average of nearly one a week. Research states that “these incidents resulted in 59 deaths and 124 non-fatal injuries.” Nearly one in six of the shootings occurred after an argument intensified because “of the presence of a gun rather than in spite of it.” Research also shows that more than half of the kids obtained a gun at more (most likely because their guardian did not store it correctly.) In 2013-2015 there was 84 K-12 school shootings and 76 college of university shootings. The U.S Department of Education statistics show that the number of students killed on campus per year is approximately 15 homicides and 5 students annually in primary and secondary schools. In over half of the incidents did the perpetrator intellionally injure/kill at least one other person with a gun (In eight of those incidents, the shooter the shot and killed themselves.) Between 2013 and 2015, 56% were perpetrated by minors. Research provides an extra reason that gun control is needed, because more than half of these school shooters are getting these guns from their guardians

On April 20, 1999, two young students of Columbine High School, opened fire in their school killing twelve students and injuring more than twenty other students. March 21, 2005, a sixteen-year-old boy killed his grandfather and his companion before going to Red Lake Senior High School and killed five students and a security guard. April 16, 2007, a gunman kills two people in his dorm before going to a academic building at Virginia Tech and killing thirty students. December 14, 2012, a twenty-year-old man kills his mother before going Sandy Hook Elementary School and killing twenty-six people, twenty whom were first graders. December 13, 2013, an eighteen-year-old man killed one student at Arapahoe High School in Colorado. October 24, 2014, a fifteen-year-old gunman killed five students and injured one student at Marysville Pilchuck High School. October 1, 2015, a twenty-six-year-old man fired in a hall at Umpqua Community College killing ten people and injuring nine. Now I could go on and on with how many school shootings the United

In the last three years gun control has been a more important issue do to bringing them to school. In 2011, 20% of high school students were bullied at school, and 33% reported being involved in a physical fight in the year before. In one month, nearly 6% of high schoolers stayed home because they felt unsafe at or own their way to school. More than 7% of 9th through 12th graders reported being threatened or injured with a weapon on school property at least ones in the last year. An additional 6% admitted to bringing a weapon on school property for protection. More than 50% of children who have been bullied online do not report the behavior to their parents, with no idea regarding this behavior. In 2011, one million children were harassed,

According to “Columbine High School Massacre” from Wikipedia, the two shooters, Harris and Klebold, “were classified as gifted children and had allegedly been victim of bullying for four years. A year later, an analysis by officials at the US Secret Service of 37 premeditated school shootings found that bullying, which some of the shooters described "in terms that approached torment," played the major role in more than two-thirds of the attacks.” School administrators and teachers condoned the bullying in school, and Columbine teachers commonly looked the other way when confronted with bullying. In The Washington Post, Lorraine Adams and Dale Russakoff confirmed on "Dissecting Columbine's Cult of the Athlete” that Columbine teachers “condoned a climate of bullying by the so-called jocks or athletes, allowing an atmosphere of intimidation and resentment to fester.” After the shooting, people realized bullying was not kid’s game anymore. The bullying led to crime. Children who have been bullied show that they are scared when they go to school. Plus, because of the abuse, the victims can not focus on studying. They get anxious, and some of them have suicidal thoughts. Pacer’s National Bullying Prevention Center, in “Bullying Statistics” claims that number of bullying cases has not reduced yet. “Nearly one in three students report being bullied during the school year (2013).” It means around 27.8% students are being bullied, and even more students have had confrontation that they do not report. Students bully others about looks, weight, and race. There are many types of bullying; it can be verbal, physical, psychological, or cyber. Statistics about adults bullying are not available because no one reports incidents to the center, however, it exists. Not only in school, the workplace is another place where bullying is happening. A man or a woman can

Society plays a big role in the development of a school shooter. When an individual feels isolated or excluded from a community and is a target for bullies, it often causes them to take out that repressed anger and lash out in heinous ways. Nowadays, students are typically at school five days a week for six to seven hours a day. That is a lot of time spent with classmates, and unfortunately, bullies. Bullying usually involves an imbalance of power, in which the bully hopes to establish a feeling of dominance over their victim. (Bullying, 2017) Being the victim of bullying is certainly an emotionally damaging situation, especially when one feels helpless and alone. Anger or discontent from the victim may develop into something deeper like hatred and the need for revenge, which is the reason why some individuals turn to shooting schools- to finally hurt others instead of being the one getting hurt. One horrifying example of bullying taking

Students and teachers often think that school shootings could never occur in their school, but school shootings can happen anywhere. They keep happening with acceleration, which makes it more likely that it could happen at any school. Anyone who lives anywhere could shoot up a school, regardless of size. I believe the only way to slow school shootings from happening as often relies on protecting our schools with more security.

School shooting is an event that is committed by a student with gun violence at a school campus or other institutions. This is becoming a very common and a serious issue around the world, especially in the United States school violence rates are extremely high

The purpose of this survey is to guide the study of bullying and its connection to gun violence. In this study, we will look at both physical and non-physical forms of bullying. Bullying can be defined in a multitude of ways, but for the purpose of this study, it will defined as being teased repeatedly and/or the application of unpleasant stimuli such as hitting, pinching or grabbing (Nansel, Overpeck, Haynie, Ruan & Scheidt, 2003). In this study we will also include being cyberbullied. This would be the unwanted teasing over social media, texting or any another online platform.

This is how bullying is a problem about 28 percent of students ages 12–18 reported being bullied at school during the school year, according to the Indicators of School Crime and Safety report, by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and National Center for Education Statistics Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

About 28 percent of students ages 12–18 reported being bullied at school during the school year, according to the Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2013 report, by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and National Center for Education Statistics Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, 2016 more than one out of every five students report being bullied at school. An intimidating physical threat at times involving aggression towards another, actions including hitting, pushing, punching, threatening, and teasing – bullying. Many Americans do not realize what children in the middle and high school level go through on a daily basis while in school.