Virginia Tech Hokies

2013). It is obvious now than ever that we lives in a world where the safety and security of individuals are in question, especially that of school students where safety against school shootings remain everyone’s major concern. The terror of Virginia Tech mass murder in 2007 and Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 traumatized the nation. As of the time when Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting took place, the massacre was considered the second-deadliest school shooting in the United States

Faculty and Firearms In 1999, on a typical calm school day at Columbine High School, a mass shooting took place grievously resulting in 13 casualties. Along with these 13 untimely deaths, 21 more unsuspecting people were injured in this horrific attack (Shen, 2012). Relatives and friends of these innocent victims were devastated. Americans were shocked. It was an unprecedented incident which occurred in the peaceful learning atmosphere of a public school. No one saw it coming, and no one was prepared

Safety and privacy both are important factors on a College campus. In 2007, Seung Hui Cho, an angry and disturbed student, shot to death 32 students and faculty of Virginia Tech, wounded 17 more, and then killed himself. Cho was a mentally disturbed student who had suicidal and homicidal tendencies. Ever since the Virginia Tech shooting happened, there has been debate whether safety is more important than student privacy or not. Many people claim that privacy protection laws are the reasons that

faculty members, and visitors were allowed to carry guns,” meaning any student would worry about their safety because there has been many cases of students causing mass shootings in colleges. For example, one of the most recent shootings has been in Virginia Tech University in 2008 that left thirty-three dead, another one at the University of Arizona Nursing College in 2002 that had four students dead, and in that same year in Appalachian School of Law a shooting that left three dead. These shootings involved

More Guns Does Not Mean Less Shootings After shootings on college campuses occur for example the Virginia Tech massacre, the Kentucky State shootings, and the Northern Illinois University shooting, many people started to question the safety of the students. Many college students came up with the bright idea that bringing concealed guns to school will help them protect themselves from possible shootings and some are lobbying for it to become legal in colleges that don’t allow it. However, allowing

Sherlock (Parmet, 2013). The killer identified as Adam Lanza a 20-year-old man also died. Found separately was his mother’s body, at a residence in town. It was compared to another incidence that had occurred in 2007, a similar event of shooting at Virginia where 32 people perished. The young were said to have been directed by their teachers into bathrooms and closets at the onset of the shooting. The incident occurred in

Kent State Life was never the same on the campus of Kent State University after May 4,1970, when riots and protests led to shootings by guardsmen, which killed four unarmed college students and wounded nine others. How could this be justified while Guardsmen carrying rifles go up against protesters. I have always believed that the fight is not equal if both sides do not have weapons. As a result the Guardsmen were not justified in firing in self-defense. Things start days before by student political

Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was the deadliest shooting at a high school or grade school in the history of the country, but it is far from the first. Several mass school shootings have occurred in our recent history. Some of them are the Virginia Tech Shooting, the Beslan Massacre, and the University of Texas massacre. Since the Sandy Hook shooting in December 2012, frighteningly, school shootings have become so common in America that our country has grown unaware of them. Instead of searching

The Virginia Tech shooting was one of the biggest shooting. Seung-Hui Cho was the mass murderer of the Virginia Tech shooting. Cho killed 33 people and injured 18 more. I am going to explain a little of who Cho is and some information about the Virginia Tech shooting. I will also explain the motives behind the why he did the shooting and how officers responded to the crime. Finally, I will explain how Virginia Tech and campuses across the nations have changed there active shooter situations. Seung-hui

Sandy Hook School Shooting One of the worst school shootings in American history. First, in the morning Adam lanza killed his mother and then goes to the Sandy Hook school with 3 guns. Adam walked in and killed 20 kids and six adults. He then killed himself. Because of the light security, Adam lanza went in the school and then he was able to do whatever he wanted to. Because the school had low security, the shooter walked right into the school and killed lots of people. Adam Lanza had a