“My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail,” stated President George W. Bush on March 19, 2003 when he justified the United States’ need to invade Iraq (Khan 64). Within the borders of Iraq, US soldiers dehumanized Iraqi citizens by torturing them in a prison known as Abu Ghraib and photographed themselves doing so.…
Columbine shooting This story is about some kids that went in to a school and killed people with machine guns. This school is currently the most popular high school in the worlds. There were 12 students and 1 teacher killed. They killed a girl named Rachel that was a senior and she was such a nice girl she started a chain reaction that is all over the world. The kids that killed Rachel killed themselves at the scene.…
Oklahoma City Bombing: April 19, 1995 The morning of April 19th, 1995 changed the United States forever. On that morning, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was attacked and destroyed by a homegrown terrorist. This event shook the US and forced the country to start thinking in terms of potential terror events, specifically ones carried out by US citizens. Two years earlier the World Trade Center was attacked by outsiders and caused America to begin to think about foreign threats.…
Introduction There is no doubting that legislators are fast to enact new programs and policies. The moment that tragedy strikes, the natural reaction is “we must fix this.” The media and the general public push politicians to enact policies and programs that may not be effective or even safe. Over the past decade, the media has broadcast coverage over many active shooters from Sandy Hook Elementary School to Virginia Tech to must notably, the Columbine shooting. Just how often are these shootings taking place?…
Safety in Numbers? A Flawed Way to Look at School Shootings “I don’t like Mondays. This livens it up” The sound of gunfire sent the school children scrambling, rifle shots felling their intended marks. Children who moments before, had been eagerly awaiting the start of class, became victims of Brenda Spencer’s intention of murder.…
Imagine you’re back in high school. It’s time for lunch and everyone starts to gather in the cafeteria. You’re talking with your friends and having a good time. Suddenly you hear gunshots. Everyone around you starts screaming; people start to panic.…
School shootings are a trend that unfortunately has been getting popular for more than a decade. This is causing schools to increase security and prepare for a potential war against unknown individuals. This has shown a negative effect on a significant amount of students who now see school as unsafe. Metal detectors, security cameras, and many other security safeguards have been a regular necessity for schools. Instead of using these things as a last resort effort to prevent violence there needs to be a less invasive plan in place that limits the security presence on campuses without it being overwhelming.…
When the founding fathers said: "A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..." they do say that people can have the right to bear arms but that they should be disciplined (to be able to understand how to handle a gun and know the dos and don’ts. People should not be careless about guns and only having them just because they want to. Under which they really need protection from someone is when they should have a gun. On April 20, 1999 eighteen and seventeen year old Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris whom attended Columbine High School came to the school with trench coats and opened fire on their fellow student's killing 12 students and teachers, while wounding 24 others, ultimately, taking their own lives. In addition, they also…
With more and more school shootings and public massacres happening everyday, the overall concern of gun control in the United States of America has become one of the most politicized topics over the past year. With elections coming up in the next year, there is no better time to address these current problems and ways to go about creating change for a better and safer society. It is clear there are two sides to this gun control issue and there needs to be a solution that will please both sides as well as create a nation where we can all stand together behind a constitution and bill of rights that has gotten us so far to where we are today. Through the implementation of stricter gun control in the areas of background checks as well as more regulation in the distribution of assault rifles, these tragedies can be brought to a minimum and we can let our youth go to school and live life without the fear of being scarred for the rest of their lives.…
I currently live in Greenbrier, Arkansas, which is a small city of roughly 5,370 people. Since we have a somewhat small population, students know one another either by name or by face. However, If you were to ask me how comfortable I felt going to a public school in the 21st century, I would say extremely uncomfortable. According to Westword News, Parkland School is 208th school shooting since Columbine. Many sources say that in just 2018, America has experienced about 18 school shootings.…
When the alarm clock goes off in the morning, your first thought is usually “Is it time already?” You roll out of bed and start the process of your morning routines, for most people the thought of not making it home after class never enters the mind. You are going to be in a classroom, on a campus that has security, you have the assumption you are safe. The problem is, you are not. An individual should never rely on someone else to keep them safe, every person has a right to protect themselves.…
18 school shootings already in 2018 in the U.S. Thinking about what action we need to take. Despite the fact that 18 school shootings is false we still need to take some kind of action. “This is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018.” Although this statement that went across the internet is false, it does not change the fact that there has been 5 actual school shootings.…
While listening to the Serial Podcasts I heard many different people voicing their opinion on whether Adnan Syed is guilty or innocent. My opinion is that he is an innocent person who was wrongly prosecuted. The whole case is built on a timeline that has many flaws, and they call it a crime of passion or crime of pride. However, they have no evidence of how Adnan might have felt. In addition, they have no physical evidence to pin on Adnan.…
Imagine you having a child, this child being of age 15 or older, and you get home only to find them dead in your family room due to an overdose on drugs. It is tragic isn 't it? All throughout America and all over the world parents are walking into their house 's after work and they are finding their teenager dead. This is not a joking matter, teenage suicide rates are on the rise. Every single year the number of teen suicides goes up.…
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.…