School Shootings, The Major Causes Of School Shootings

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Katlyn Kochel
Mrs. Wiest
English 132
6 February 2015
School Shootings The first school shooting dates all the way back to the 18th century (List). School shootings are becoming a devastating epidemic throughout the United States. Why do the teens resort to such violence? Maybe its because they are bullied and they feel there is no where to turn. The violence that the teens display is typically blamed on and is explained to be caused by many different events or factors, bullying being one of the main factors that cause school shootings. Bullying isn 't the only factor though. Relaxed gun laws, the wild west, mental break downs or illnesses, violent video games, and many other factors can be what cause school shootings to happen so often. The …show more content…

The Virginia Tech shooting, also known as the Virginia Tech massacre, was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed thirty-two people and wounded seventeen others in two separate attacks, about two hours apart, before committing suicide. Another six people were injured trying to escape from the classroom windows. The attack is the deadliest school shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history and one of the deadliest by one single gunman worldwide. The attacks received international media coverage and speculation. It created an intense debate about gun violence, gun laws, gaps in the U.S. system for treating mental health issues, the shooter’s state of mind, the responsibility of college administrations, privacy laws, journalism ethics, and other issues …show more content…

There are more than one could count, and 1,000 different combinations. But what can the United Stated do as a nation to prevent these factors in the first place? It is heartbreaking having so many innocent people be killed brutally, but it is heartbreaking that not much of anything has been done to fix the problem or to help troubled teens. If these factors didn’t happen in the first place, would the school shootings rates drop?

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