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    Minimizing school shootings with gun control The United States has seen an increase in school shootings in the past couple of years. Such a dramatic increase that it seems like a trend know. So far this year there has been a reported 52 school shootings. There have been about 142 school shootings since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012. This is a large number when compared to past years. Implementing gun control will help minimize school shootings. People who oppose gun control think that regulating

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    would perform an act like a school shooting. Often people jump to a stereotypical conclusion because violence is frequently found in games and further media. Stereotyping is a subconscious act when a person places someone into their custom arrangement of how they act‚ speak‚ and look. (Ann) Can there be a another reason other than a stereotypical one? Can it be possible that violent media and a different style of music are not the true reason for a school shooting? Well yes‚ a school shooter can be

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    effective for his audience because he is showing the truth about how the paramedics. After reading this article Paramedics are taught not to risk their lives after the mass shootings‚ they are talking about that paramedics staying back out of the hot zones because it is to dangers for them after a mass shooting. In Columbine school shooting in Littleton‚ Colo in 1999‚ and the paramedics would not go in to save lives unless the swat team has cleared the place before they went in only because they don’t want

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    A couple days ago‚ a British pilot named‚ Roger Gower‚ was fatally shot by a group of elephant poachers while he was on an anti-poaching mission in Tanzania. He was part of the Parliament and a conservation fund and was working with the Tanzanian wildlife. When the poachers saw his helicopter‚ they opened fire which wounded Gower. However‚ he passed away before rescuers were able to make it there. Nyalandu‚ the country’s former tourism minister stated that‚ “Capt Roger represented the very best in

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    Hey you think Dylan’s and Eric’s parents go in jail for what the kids did? The columbine shooting happened at the high school where they all went to school. The parents of the two boys should go to jail because they did nothing to stop them. They should be punished for their kids because they went in and killed kids in their school. Dillon had a bomb in his dad’s closet. The shooting happened in 1999 and it was April 20th and it was in Denver. He put a gun under his bed and no one knew it was under

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    Hemmingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants" Ernest Hemmingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants" is not a story in the clasical sense with an introduction‚ a development of the story‚ and an end. We only get some time in the life of two people‚ as if it were just a piece of a film where we have a lot do deduce. This story does not give everything done for the reader‚ we only see the surface of what is going on. It leaves an open end‚ readers can have their own ending and therefore take part in the

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    types of elephant‚ the Asian elephant and the African elephant (although There are two types of elephant‚ the Asian elephant and the African elephant (although sometimes the African Elephant is split into two species‚ the African Forest Elephant and the African Bush Elephant). Elephants are the largest land-living mammal in the world. Both female and male African elephants have tusks but only the male Asian elephants have tusks. They use their tusks for digging and finding food. Female elephants are called

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    In a period of 18 months there has been 74 school shootings. That’s 4 to 5 shootings happening every month. Throughout the past decades mass school shootings have increased dramatically. Now a days kids are scared to go to school because they are worried about getting harmed in their learning environment. Schools are meant to be a safe environment for children to learn‚ they feel like they can’t concentrate because they feel unease. Students should not be afraid when it comes to going to school

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    Introduction School Shootings A number of cases have been examined with hopes of uncovering features that school shooters have in common in regards to family life‚ personalities‚ histories‚ and behaviors. Not only are they examined for that reason‚ but to also shed light on how they are different. Statistically speaking school shootings have been a very rare occurrence‚ but they are societal issues nonetheless. However‚ the reasons in which a person chooses to commit these horrific crimes is

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    (FBI) Crazy right? Under ⅓ of the population committing over half the murder. This is the problem not being brought to light; not police’s justified shootings. Police do not unfairly target minorities. Some say that police shootings are unjustified. While it is true that some police attack people unfairly‚ it is not fair to say that all shootings are unjustified. Police get a call and they chase after the criminal in question or whoever fits the description of the call. After they have located

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