School Shooter: Stop the Plot Many people think they are safe when they are inside school‚ which should be the case but sadly it is not. Over forty school shootings have happened within one year. School shootings have been a constant problem for our nation‚ in order to protect all of us‚ we need to create a dynamic solution. So many school shooting incidents occurred on the campuses of K-12 public schools and private schools‚ as well as colleges and universities. America has been dealing with school
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School shootings are a topic of much fascination in the U.S. They invoke such attention in the media circus of ’why’s’ and ’what’s’ that there’s often little time to even mourn for the victims. Perhaps it’s the immense shock that comes from the idea of our youth shooting up their peers indiscriminately‚ but it is a fair question nonetheless. What causes school shootings? Well‚ a variety of things. But the discussions that follow are often along the lines of: "did they play too many violent video
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Figure 1: The Increase of School Shootings (School shooting Trends). Since the year 2013‚ the number of school shootings in the United States has grown to a deplorable total of 160. The number of school shootings is rapidly increasing due to the increase of people with serious mental illness not getting the appropriate help they need. Also‚ students who are bullied in their academic years make up a majority of gunmen in the shootings. Lastly‚ having weapons easily accessible within ones home has
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Tragedy of School Shootings Every single day‚ millions of kids across the country wake up‚ get ready for the day‚ and head to school. The parents of these children trust the school with many things; a safe bus ride‚ a productive environment‚ and most importantly‚ keeping their kids safe throughout the day. School districts take pride in this‚ and on a normal basis‚ things will go smoothly. Despite all of their efforts‚ though‚ one of the most serious and saddening problems that affects schools today
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Period 4 February 15‚ 2013 Background: A school shooting is an incident in where gun violence occurs at an education institution. A school shooting can affect the students and workers who were in the shooting mentally and physically. The earliest known school shooting to ever take place in the United States was the Pontiac’s Rebellion school massacre which happened on July 26‚ 1764. In this school massacre‚ four Lenape American Indians entered the school‚ shoot and killed Enoch Brown‚ and killed
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History of School Shootings School shootings have dated as far back to the 1700’s. During the 1800’s there were 38 school shootings. From 1900 to 1979 there were 125 School shootings (History of School Shootings in the United States‚ 2016). From 1980 to September 28‚ 2016 there have been 277 school shootings in the United States. Since from 1980 to 2012 there have been 297 people killed (Kirk‚ 2012). In the last 30 years the worse shooting happened April 16‚ 2007 at Virginia Tech‚ 33 students were
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2013‚ there have been 153 school shootings in the United States‚ although not all have resulted in injury or death. Some of the most horrifying school shootings include the 1966 University of Texas clock tower shooting‚ the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. More recent was the school shooting that killed 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Most parents want to believe that their children are safe in school‚ but statistics show that
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been massive gun shootings in schools from all ages. How is it possible for just any one to get hold of a gun that easily? Some benefits to banning handgun would be there won’t be so much gun violence‚ not everyone can get hold of a gun so easily‚ and the population or estimates of kids dying do to gun issues would drop massively. Every day about 30 people either get shot or murdered by someone using a gun. In America approximately
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School: is it Safe? Schools are supposed to be a safe environment for students to learn and thrive‚ not an environment of constant alertness and anxiousness. Families should not feel nervous or apprehensive to send their children to school because they are not sure of their safe return home. Because of how common school shootings are‚ these adjectives that I used in the previous sentences are familiar to many families across this country. A school shooter has one purpose and one purpose only: to
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these tragedies and provide some good solution to prevents the similar catastrophe happened again. There are several ideas that can be treatments which included improve security in school‚ notice the violence on social media and set up proper gun policy. One of the most effective way to prevent school massive shooting is to improve the
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