Essay On School Shooting

Many people would say knowledge is power. As a child I never really understood that. Why would anyone want to spend anymore time in school than they have to? The older I got the more I liked learning but not exactly what you learn in school. I loved learning about people and why people do what they do. I would spend hours researching behaviors such as why people murder or why people act in anger, unable to control their emotions. I don't remember the exact moment I became interested in social behavior but I was probably around the age of thirteen. I had been researching the event of the Columbine school shooting. I didn't understand why anyone could feel so much hate to kill multiple people. Not too long after my interested had started the Virgina Tech and Sandy Hook school shooting happened. Why in the world would anyone want to do such a crime? The other school shootings turned my interest of social behavior into and obsession. I no longer wanted to know just about the two guys in the Columbine Shooting but I wanted to understand murderers. Why do some people kill? What was the trigger that caused it? How could people miss the warning signs? What are the warning signs? …show more content…
In my opinion hate crime is the most popular reason, although some people do commit murder in self defense or in a sense of panic, although most murders are thought through and preconceived before it happens. Just as in the school shootings, the shooters planned the event for sometime before actually going through with it. In my opinion the crimes were not committed just as a random event but were the result of a plan and a purpose, the purpose being revenge. Most of these crimes were committed from built up anger and aggression, the shooters were trying to payback all the wrongs that had been done to them and what better way than taking lives and leaving the survivors to suffer with the loss of family and loved