Mass Killings And Hate Crimes

With the way society is changing nowadays, it breeds fear to everyone knowing that anything can happen at any time. Since the media reports incidents of acts of terror more often nowadays due to the frequency of these incidents happening, some people have gotten immune to the happenings by not getting concerned like they used to because they always hear about it on television or read about it on the Internet. Three other reasons why people become immune to these acts is because they’re not affected by them, they might not have witnessed or experienced them, and they might not have lost people who are close to them from the attacks. Tragic events such as mass killings and hate crimes against race and gender have greatly increased over the years although society thinks that even if tragic events affect the immunity of the people, positive reactions still come from the people. …show more content…
These crimes could be done in different ways such as murder, torture, massacres, physical or verbal abuse, and destruction of property. These crimes have also been occurring decades ago and continue to happen until now. According to an article published on June 18, 2015 on the NBC NEWS website (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/hate-crime-america-numbers-n81521), Brunker, Alba, and Dedman found that, “race has generally fallen as a percentage of hate crimes (from about 60 percent to the high 40s), while sexual orientation has generally risen in share (from the low teens to about 20