Virginia Tech massacre

relationship within the American people and their desire for guns. American citizens are aware of the danger that follows with gun use, but still advocate to keep them legal within the states. The gruesome massacres that have occurred within American schools such as Columbine, Virginia Tech, as well as the massacre that recently occurred in Orlando, Florida at club Pulse, somehow do not resonate with the fact that this country has a very serious gun problem. The United States must figure out…

factors amongst the shooters. Sandy Hook, Columbine, and Virginia Tech are some of the most common references made when talking about school shootings. In an article by Julian Kimble, in Complex, “Memories of a Massacre: What We 've Learned 15 Years After Columbine,” Kimble states that in 1999 two shooters, both students entered the school and opened fire. There were 15 dead and 23 injured in the shooting. In 2007 one student entered the Virginia Tech University campus. The student killed 32…

Why do they exist in the first place? Different people will have all kinds of answers to these questions, but there is no exact answer to it. The reason that these massacres are taking place is not a result of just one thing. Every shooter may have a different reason. However, there are a few reasonings that many shooters admit to playing a part in their actions. According to statistics, eighty-seven percent of school…

for the students and want to keep school shootings from happening in the future. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre President Barack Obama said “We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years,” and I could not agree more with this statement. These terrible massacres happen to often in this country and something needs to happen to prevent massacres like these. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings the National Rifle Association said “The only thing that…

Applying Crime Theories to Seung-Hui Cho Tragedy struck Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, when Seung-Hui Cho opened fire on his college, campus killing thirty-two people. His family had reason to believe that something like this could happen as the result of Cho’s odd behaviors. The list of symptoms that Seung-Hui Cho displayed is practically endless, and most, if not all, can be related to different crime theories. Crime theories can be used to help explain what leads someone to commit a crime.…

Many school shootings have roots in interpersonal communication. For example, the Umpqua Community College shooting involved an encounter between a teacher and a student (who ended up being the gunman). The shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre had issues communicating with other people, and his teachers were not aware of this, causing the problem to develop further. The way that the teachers and students communicated with each other played a large role in both shootings, so it is important to…

Over the recent years, gun control has become one of the most prominent and controversial topics worldwide. Acts of terrorism and widespread violence have been rampant throughout our nation and many accredit this to America’s gun control policies, or rather lack thereof. School shootings have become increasingly prevalent over the past years in the United States. With twenty mass shootings in schools in 2015 alone, gun restrictions in school zones has been a pressing issue (Strauss, Steven).…

In the article, “Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner,” Justin Cronin, a liberal award-winning novelist and a professor at Rice University, describes the experiences he has underwent during in his life that caused his beliefs of gun control. Cronin wrote this article after a shooter entered an elementary school and killed 27 innocent people. He believes it is too easy for Americans to buy guns, but he also believes many people who are against guns do not look at the reality of gun control. They…

number of psychological first-aid programs is on the rise and targets specific disasters” (3). Schools will usually have a plan set in place, and then after a shooting happens they reevaluate and update the plan. For example, after a shooting at Virginia Tech, it was noted that it is necessary to identify potential shooters before it happens, support is needed for public health preparedness for a mass causality incident, and psychological functioning needs to be evaluated afterward…

American’s have the right to own a gun by following the right procedure in the United State. The gun control have been discussed in the last few years. The hot topic discussing that should we banned the right to own a gun as functional protection. Few people who owns a gun have few committing of violent crimes which like school shooting, suicide, and homicide in America. As the number of gun holder increasing, the number of death rate increasing every year. For this horrible issue, there are…