Critical Analysis On School Shootings

Two articles focus on school shootings. The reasons why students become shooters is explained by Jesse Signal. The preventive actions that can be taken towards school shootings are given by Frank J. Robertz. The article "Deadly Dreams: What Motivates School Shootings?' written by Frank J. Robertz and published on Scientific American on July 30th, 2007 describes how young adults become school shooters. Robertz explains the process of how over a long time adolescents start being more descriptive of the killings and staging how they will do it. That they even reach out for help multiple times before becoming a killer. He also gives examples of other school shootings that happened during 2007. The purpose of Robertz article is to help the public …show more content…
Singal starts off naming a few shootings that happened that year. Then goes into details about the reasons young adults become shooters. Also that shootings happen. After she names the reasons she gives a few answers as to how to prevent shootings from happening. The purpose of her article is to explain why kids become shooters. Her audience is also the general public, school officials, and anyone who reads Science of Us. The only example of a shooting that she names is the 2014 Oregon shooting. Signal quotes her source Katrina Newman for her shooting example. The Oregon shooter killed one other student before he was killed. Signal explains how this has recreated fear in the United States. But has also given researchers a sense of how school shootings develop and how they can destroy that development. Newman and her colleagues believe that there are different types of shootings and patterns. An example Newman gave is a high school …show more content…
They would be better able to know what the students know. They would get information on threats from students because of the relationship the officer builds with them. Though usually "soft cops" are the first to be let go when there are budget cuts in the school. Media is another prevention against school shootings. The coverage the media provides to the public increases the rate students report suspected plots. Which a few turn out to be real threats. This solves a portion of the whole problem. Though it doesn't solve the whole problem of school shootings. The source Signal used for her article was Katherine Newman, the James B. Knapp dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at John