On Aug. 26, two people were shot on the campus of Texas Southern University. One died after the shooting in the
On Aug. 26, two people were shot on the campus of Texas Southern University. One died after the shooting in the
National guards fired at unarmed, peacefully protesting students. They fired sixty-seven bullets in thirteen seconds. From the shots fired, it scared the students away, which was their plan. After firing into the crowd of students, there were four students killed and ten others wounded. Before they shot at the young citizens, they kept trying to force them away back to their dormitories, but it didn't work.…
Umpqua Community College shooting On October 1st, 2015, a 26 year old student, Christopher Harper-Mercer, fatally shot nine people and injured nine others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Students reported that the shooting was in his English and writing classroom, where instead of bringing his books to class that day, he brought his firearm. One survivor, Tracy Heu, stated to CNN news that “he came in and shot towards the back of the wall while telling everybody to go to the center of the room. He then started to ask people about their religion and if they believed in god. When they replied yes, he said “good you’re going to see him soon” then shot them.”…
America has had one hundred and fifty school shootings since 2013. Every school shooting that has happened either killed or injured an individual. One may ask how can we prevent or avoid school shootings that are happening all around the world? Everyone wants to feel safe in any environment that he or she may be in. We have to stop school shootings in any way possible.…
School shooting is an event that is committed by a student with gun violence at a school campus or other institutions. This is becoming a very common and a serious in the United States. Common causes of these school shooting deprived from the desire to revenge, social media, and access to guns. School shootings cause a lot of sadness because children are getting injured and killed for no reason. It is important that school personnel and students aware of the possible threat and warning around…
Invulnerability by Nib or Hollow Point We can't ignore the ongoing violence in America's schools. There have been numerous school shootings already in 2014. Feeling safe doesn't always mean being safe. We can't afford another year without action on gun control. It's important for people to be prepared because if there's a crisis on campus, they need to be able to take care of themselves until somebody can render aid.…
¨In the last three years, there has been approximately two hundred recorded school shootings in America.¨ Hundreds of innocent lives were taken, within those years. We all always ask that one question, why? Why has this happened to our country. It is slowly becoming a problem in our society, that needs to be taken charge of. According to CNN, “School shootings are far more frequent in America than in other countries.”…
Violence is a common occurrence in everyday life. Violence comes in various forms, from burglaries to attacks to shootings that can happen anywhere. Shootings are one of the most violent events that can happen in the world. They can happen in schools, shopping malls, churches, anywhere public. They can even happen in medical facilities, such as nursing homes, hospitals, doctors’ offices, and clinics.…
On September 3, 1 man was found dead, 1 man was hospitalized, and 1 man was injured. This event occurred at the Sacramento Community College in California. Some people believe that events such as this still would have occurred if their was Gun Control. Some believe that with Gun Control events like this would never have happened. On September 3, 2015, the Sacramento Community College went into lockdown for two hours because of an that had occurred on campus earlier that day.…
Sadly, inhumane actions such as these were tolerated if not carried out by so-called “professionals.” For instance, in 1919, a boy who ran away from the Anglican Old Sun school was shackled to his bed and whipped repeatedly with a horsewhip until his back bled. Indian Commissioner W.A. Graham tried to have the principal fired but was unsuccessful. In 1924, another similar incident occurred as a boy at the Anglican school in The Pas was beaten until his neck to his buttocks turned black. Graham said that there was no point in reporting abuses due to the lack of support from Ottawa department, which accepted any excuse from the principals (Milloy, 1999 as cited in Truth and Reconciliation, 2012).…
On April 20th, 1999, at 11:15 a.m., two gunmen opened fire outside of Columbine High School, a large suburban public school in Colorado, and started to close in on the building. The two perpetrators were not strangers to the district, in fact, they were students who were currently enrolled as seniors in the graduating class of 1999. The Columbine massacre was the first major school shooting that paved the way for many other violent attacks on masses of people in the future, left a scar on the community, and allowed smarter thinking to be implemented into active shooter situations. Eric Harris, aged 18, and Dylan Klebold, aged 17, committed an act against humanity that sparked a violent uproar consisting of mass shootings. The beginning…
In 2006, the American Psychological Association determined that these “policies have done little to make schools safer. But have contributed to an increase in the negative behavior and dropout rates in some schools. Some examples of current school violence were: In April 2007, there was a School shooting at Virginia Tech. Seung-Hui Cho, a troubled college student, killed thirty-two people and wounded over a dozen others. The Second Amendment is dying.…
Majority of students attending college are stressed about their academic workload and worrying about the safety of the school is another burden. According to the article, “There Were More Than Two Dozen Reported Shootings At College Campuses In 2013” by Tyler Kingkade states that in the year 2013 there has been at least 27 college campus shootings. There was a total of 18 students killed and many others injured (Kingkade). These college shootings create fear to students to walk on the campus especially if they dorm. A way to decrease the number of shootings and bring peace in the campus is to add cameras inside and outside the college.…
What is more important: stopping school shootings or worrying about an invasion of privacy of students? Ever since 9/11 ,security around the country has increased. Airports have scanners and more security guards. More violence has occurred in towns.…
School shootings can lead to other violence because of the sadness that was caused by the school shooting. People do not realize that school shootings do not only affect the students who attend that school, but school shootings affect others across America. There are many ways school shooting affect children. Many students may feel anxiety about the events that took place. A lot of people worry that a school shooting or similar events could happen in their school (Brantly 1).…
What is sociology? Sociology is the study of social life, change, behavior and human interaction. Sociology studies the relationships between people’s behavior and how they influence, develop, and change society. In sociology, there are three sociological perspectives that associate with how we view and look at society. The Functionalist Perspective, Conflict Perspective, and Symbolic Perspective all offer a variety of different views on society.…