Article of the Week #4 In the Article of the Week, TheWeek.com discusses the topic of “America’s Killing Cotagion” and goes into about 3 general catagories; Are more mass shootings are happening, What drives people to do these terrible things, and How we can try to stop such tragic events from happening. Some main points that were discussed were mostly just that from about 2011 to modern days, the amount of mass attacks have increased to about three times as much. Three times as much might not seem like a big deal, but imagine 20 people dying every single year just because of a shooting. This number doesn’t even include the people who were injured or deeply traumatised by this experience.…
Many people who did not have children in schools might have thought more secure school security was not crucial at the time being, but those parents and teachers who did have personal connections with schools would disagree in a heart beat. Having security required in schools was a way to help bring a peace of mind to parents, students, and administrations. Mike Kennedy (2011) highlights how after 9/11 the public was feeling vulnerable to violence and tragedy (para. 1). Kennedy (2011) interviewed a director of the office of safety and security, Fred Ellis, who proceeds to say the increased school security was not a “specific catalyst” but a part of a continuous process of making America safe (para. 5). Some examples of how school security was heightened would be more safety drills, more police officers on call, intercoms throughout the entire school, and outside guests signing in through a main office.…
After the events at Sandy Hook Elementary School, parents and school districts started questioning whether school are safe…
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…
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.…
Do to the school being in a rural area placing it further away from police protection. Adding teachers to the with firearms would greatly increase the ability and response time in resolving a hostile situation. According to the Washington post from 2007 till 2015 some of the deadliest shootings have occurred. From the six of the shootings from 2007 two of them were in schools. The schools that were affected include the Sandy Hook Elementary School and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.…
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…
Devastating, frightening and incomprehensible, school shootings are hardly new to the United States of America. Statistics gathered from just ten school shootings, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured, representing the work product of America’s ten deadliest school shooters. To qualify as one of the ten deadliest, the shooter must have struck a minimum of ten individuals and caused at least five deaths. Yet, the question remains, what type of person would enter a school with the purpose to extinguish human life?…
¨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.”…
After the Sandy Hook (2013) shooting the National Rifle Association suggested that every school in America no matter the size have armed guards. Looking the enrollment size of a school with less than three hundred people about twenty-three percent of schools had security guards or sworn in officers in (2005-2006) school year; and about twenty-seven point six percent in (2007-2008) and the number goes down to twenty-five percent in (2009-2010) school year. When the enrollment size increases to 300-499 students, the same pattern occurs with a school enrollment size 300 or less. In the school year 2005-2006 about thirty percent of schools had security guards or sworn in officers. In the school year 2007-2008 the number increases to thirty-six percent of school nation wide having armed personnel in schools.…
If a student’s intent on hurting people they would know who would have a gun and how to get it. Also school officials are not the police, they have not been trained for these types of situations and can do more harm than good. The police can respond calmly than someone who is not used to being in these situations. Teachers should not be leaping in and start shooting away trying to fight the attacker, they should be trying to get the students away safely. More guns being fired is not the solution in a mass shooting and would likely bring more casualties and be harmful than intended originally.…
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.…
Columbine’s tragic shooting has brought much needed security awareness to schools…
School shootings cause a lot of sadness because children are getting injured and killed for no reason. Not only families are feeling upset, but others are too. People feel bad for families and the innocent children. People may wonder if schools have enough security and protection. Schools have a lot different ways they’re using security.…
Why wait for something bad to happen, why not prevent it before it happens? For these reasons we decided to do our topic on school shootings. School shootings have been a big problem lately, so we decided this would be a good problem/solution topic. School shootings are always devastating when they happen so we decided to find ways to prevent them.…