School shootings
School is supposed to be a safe zone. However past events have involving school shootings has proved that school is not as safe as it can be. Students search for an education in school, but are instead are searching for a safe place in the classroom. People travel to America because they assume it is a safer place, and yet turns out their lives may be at risk. In most cases school shooters have some sort of connection to the school. In order to study school shootings, research has to be conducted on the psychological state, environmental factors and childhood affecting the shooting. So how do you prevent this from happening?
To start of the psychological state of the shooter has to be analyzed in the article “Alone and adrift: The association between mass school shootings, school size, and student support” by Baird, Abigail A Roellke, Emma V and Zeifman, Debra M. suggests that “transitioning from a smaller, more supportive school to a larger, more anonymous school may exacerbate preexisting mental health issues among potential school shooters” (1). Most of the people who commit this crime are mentally unstable. Sometimes the environment they are in acts as a catalyst for the worsening of their mental ill. One research study focused on the profiling of the
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The problem cannot be contained without there being a limitation to guns. One fellow student at the march said, “We know that they are claiming that there are mental issues and I am not a psychologist, but we need to pay attention to the fact this isn't just a mental health issue. He would not have gotten that many students with a knife.” This student is Emma Gonzalez, and she is at the forefront of change. We can not advocate for safety with guns when they are bringing us the exact opposite of what they are meant to
The history of school shootings has shown an increase in mass school shooting. The very first known school shooting in the United States occurred on July 26, 1764 in present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania. As part of the Pontiac's Rebellion, four Lenape Native Americans entered the school house and started shooting, killing the schoolmaster Enoch Brown and about nine students. Only two students survived the massacre (“History”). Since the 1700s the United States society has changed in many ways. Schools have become more than just one room school houses and each grade has its own teacher. Furthermore, the problem of school shootings has not decreased but rather increased over the years. On the one hand, reports from the Centers for Disease Control showed that in general school violence decreased from 1992 to 200...
It is a sad time in American history when one can easily recount recent school shootings in their own area. This ease stems from a sharp increase in the number of firearms brought into elementary and middle schools across the country, with an intense focus on the issue beginning after the shooting of 20 children from Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. Most school shooters are male, white, and often upper middle class. They are also more, often than not, under some type of mental stress that is causing them to create this type of violence in our communities. In fact, many school shooters are never suspected of doing any harm to their peers and teachers until it is much too late.
School shootings have gone up in tremendous numbers since the Columbine mass shooting in 1999. This unfortunately opened a door to cause malicious copycats to react such crimes that still happen to this year. There have been 200 shootings at school in the last past decade. School shootings have an impact on how we go to school everyday without knowing there is a possibility of being attacked because of a heinous crime. One of America’s most deadly social problem is school shootings because it can create mental problems for students, they occur because of bullying, and can lead to unemployment.
Preventing School Shootings From 1980’s till now, there are has been many school shootings. Many researchers have made many hypotheses as to why these occur. The most tragic shooting took place in Sandy Hook Elementary. 2.
In society today, whenever and wherever a tragic school shooting occurs, politicians and social media pounce on their chance to do something on gun control across the nation. Although the guns were the weapons during the shooting, they are not the cause of the shootings. Instead of gun control, everyone should be focusing on how to help the shooters who showed signs of mental illness. After all, a sane person would not go buy a gun with the intent of murdering several people; only a mentally ill person who became aggressive would go out and buy a gun for that purpose. Therefore, everyone should be trying to prevent the real cause of school shootings from occurring to prevent another tragic event from happening again. The main reason why school shootings, like the Virginia Tech Massacre, occur is that the shooters were mentally ill or depressed; the tragic events can be avoided if they got the psychological treatment they needed before they became too unstable. An overall solution to this is to raise awareness of depression and its warning signs in order to prevent another outbreak of depression-related violence from happening in the future.
School shootings are the leading death by a fire arm in the United States. What motivates these people to want to kill others? Acts of violence at schools is not a new thing. School shootings date back to the 18th century. However, school shootings are growing more common in this day in age. What motivates these people to want to kill others? With social networks more and more people are being bullied, which results in more kids snapping and shooting up their school. Bullying isn’t the only reason for school shooting, now smart kids are snapping under the pressure of unrealistic standards set for them by their honors teachers. In high school teens get the choice to take honors classes, or regular classes. The biggest difference in these classes
There are many different types of school violence. The one that gets the most public attention is school shootings. The term school shooting is basically defined as an act where a student, school staff member, or intruder from the outside commits an act on the school campus. One of the most well known school shootings took place at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado. On a Tuesday April 20,1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, students at Columbine High School, took the lives of thirteen other students before taking the lives of their own. When we think of events like this, we have many questions that go through our mind. Thoughts like why did this happen, could it have been prevented, and how did impact the individuals involved just to name a few. There are probably several more thoughts that go through the minds of a nation when we hear about traumatic evens such as a school shooting.
Public mass shootings have increased at an alarming rate over the past three decades and have become a growing concern for the people of the United States. It has appeared that approximately every few months, media outlets report incidences of tragedy involving a sole gunman targeting groups of people with the intent to harm or extinguish life due to various motives. Recent research data indicated that over 80 public mass shootings have occurred in the United States since 1983. Some of the more recent shootings to date are: Marysville-Pilchick High in October 2014; Santa Barbara, California in May 2014; Fort Hood, Texas U.S. Army base in April 2014; Washington Navy Yard in September 2013; Sandy Hook Elementary, Connecticut in December 2012;
What Pushes Them to Pull the Trigger: an Analysis of Social Rejection, Victimization, and Mental Illness as Influences behind School Shootings If no one turned round when we entered, answered when we spoke, or minded what we did, but if every person we met 'cut us dead,' and acted as if we were non-existing things, a kind of rage and impotent despair would ere long well up in us, from which the cruellest bodily tortures would be a relief William James, The Principles of Psychology (p. 294) On April 20th, 1999, one of the most memorable outward acts of aggression occurred at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado where thirteen students were murdered in an attempt of revenge by two socially outcasted students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. Similar to the assertion made by William James, this outward act of aggression was seemingly the answer to Klebold and Harris’s plight of social rejection. James portrays that social rejection is powerful enough to cause a person to
In the United States there have been 142 school shootings since 2013. In Australia there has never been a school shooting. “A school shooting is a form of mass shooting involving a gun attack on an educational institution, such as a school or university”(Wikipedia). According to the United States Secret Service, a school shooting is where the school is purposely planned and selected as the location for the attack. A school shooting may occur between any individual, student, instructor, administrator and staff employed institution (Sinnamon, 2016). There is no one profile to describe a shooter but almost all attackers are students at the school. School shootings occur when anyone enters a campus and begins firing weapons such as a rifle, shotgun
Bullied Hearts Bullying is a serious issue in our nation that can lead to tragedy, such as mass shootings. In the past decade the increase in bullying has sky rocketed and has just become worse and worse. As bullying has become worse so have the tragedies.
I read the poem “Bloom- is Result- to meet a Flower” by Emily Dickinson three times in order to fully understand the meaning. The first time I read the poem I read it silently as I did research. The second time, I read it out loud in order to make sure I didn’t miss any details. The final time, I read the poem I wrote it out to get write as if I was the poet to understand her writing better. The first time I read it, it took me fifteen minutes because I was looking up words and taking down notes.
Some school are making their school a gun free zone. However, it is true that some people try to attack gun free zone because they know that no one has a gun to kill them back. Even people call the police, it takes time for the police to come and shooting does not take that much time to kill people. To solve this problem I think the campus safety should carry guns. Also, teachers may have a right to have guns, too. When the shooter comes into the classroom the teachers are the only adult that could protect the students. To protect children they all have to be trained how to use the gun. Also it is necessary for teachers and campus safety to have a mental health care periodically. There are many scientist who are researching about what kind of people tend to become mental illness and when do they become so. Unfortunately there is no strong evidence so, it is very important to watch out for the mental health of people who carries
60% of school shootings in the US happen in small towns. Research on earlier shootings showed the attack is on a school because that is the center stage in a small town, where the shooter can affect the entire community. School shootings are far more frequent in America than in other countries. Although school shootings seem to be on the rise, school is still considered one of the safest places. In 2012 out of all youth homicides, less than 2% occur at school, and this percentage has been stable for the past decade. In 2010, there were about 828,000 nonfatal injuries at school among students 12 to 18 years old. Deaths resulting from schoo...
Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. This has caused many problems among students, families, faculty of schools, and residents of the areas. However, there are many possible ways we can stop all this violence in schools. Almost three-fourths of the United States teens are afraid of violent crime amongst their peers (Apfel 23). Violence in schools has become a big problem in todays society. With all the people being injured or killed in schools by guns and other weapons, more and more people are getting more weapons to bring in to schools. Nearly half of all males and one-third of all students including females said they could easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to (Glazer 14).