Rampage Shooting Essay
New gun control laws and reduced mainstream media publicity might be the solution to rampage shootings.
In The unmentionable causes of violence, Andrew Stephen claims that if there is anything unique about Cho Seung-hui the Virginia tech shooter, “it wasn’t that he was a paranoid schizophrenic armed with Walther .22 and 9mm Glock pistols and driven by rage but rather it was the ease at which he was able to obtain the weapons” (20). Furthermore, Stephen provides evidence supporting the effect media publicity had on the aftermath of the Virginia tech rampage shooting. Stephen states in his article that Cho was a product of a 21st – century technology that was obsessed with sharing every activity online via the internet. Stephen also explains that Cho knew that if he sent videos of himself to NBC he would completely take over the mainstream media and that the whole world would be watching him within seconds of its release (21). If one …show more content…
In a study carried on 1,034 adults by Dr Donna Leinwand after the Tucson rampage shootings. Most of the respondents of the study blamed the shooting rampage on the easy access the perpetrators had to guns and ammunition while some blamed it on the American mental health system. When the respondents were what they thought the solution to the problem was, most of them responded that “stricter gun control laws were indeed the safest solution (4).” According to Rick Jervis in his article “critics target high round gun magazines,” the perpetrator of the Colorado theatre rampage shooting James Holmes had purchased a large arsenal of high-round gun magazines which he had used in his assault in the theatre. Jervis emphasizes the need to reduce the amount of ammunition that can be bought off the market; he claims that the shooting would have being avoided if James Holmes had not had access to the weapon and ammunition
In The unmentionable causes of violence, Andrew Stephen claims that if there is anything unique about Cho Seung-hui the Virginia tech shooter, “it wasn’t that he was a paranoid schizophrenic armed with Walther .22 and 9mm Glock pistols and driven by rage but rather it was the ease at which he was able to obtain the weapons” (20). Furthermore, Stephen provides evidence supporting the effect media publicity had on the aftermath of the Virginia tech rampage shooting. Stephen states in his article that Cho was a product of a 21st – century technology that was obsessed with sharing every activity online via the internet. Stephen also explains that Cho knew that if he sent videos of himself to NBC he would completely take over the mainstream media and that the whole world would be watching him within seconds of its release (21). If one …show more content…
In a study carried on 1,034 adults by Dr Donna Leinwand after the Tucson rampage shootings. Most of the respondents of the study blamed the shooting rampage on the easy access the perpetrators had to guns and ammunition while some blamed it on the American mental health system. When the respondents were what they thought the solution to the problem was, most of them responded that “stricter gun control laws were indeed the safest solution (4).” According to Rick Jervis in his article “critics target high round gun magazines,” the perpetrator of the Colorado theatre rampage shooting James Holmes had purchased a large arsenal of high-round gun magazines which he had used in his assault in the theatre. Jervis emphasizes the need to reduce the amount of ammunition that can be bought off the market; he claims that the shooting would have being avoided if James Holmes had not had access to the weapon and ammunition