Secrets To Prevent School Shootings

Decent Essays
All secrets should be kept in strict confidence, but there are times you need to tell others: when there's talk of a school shooting, and if someone thinks about committing suicide.
Recently, a massacre was avoided. For example, the school I attended a few months ago was about to have a shooting. Consequently, when me and my friends heard about it we talked to the counselor to find a solution before anything could happen. The effect was that they prevented anything was planning and helped him. The result was that nobody got hurt and in school they started having more security. To conclude sometimes is better to tell someone what you hear from others so you can prevent bad situations.
I helped a friend one time and saved his life. For instance,

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    On March 10, 1992, Alfonso Lopez Jr. brought a .38-caliber handgun and five bullets to Edison High School in San Antonio, TX. He was arrested under Texas law but the next day, state charges were dropped after he was charged by a federal grand jury for violating the Gun- Free School Zones Act of 1990. He was convicted and sentenced to 6 months in prison and 2 years of supervision. Lopez’s lawyer, John R. Carter, a federal public defender, argued that the Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA) is unconstitutional as it did not meet the requirement of the Commerce Clause. The Commerce Clause allows congress to make laws if interstate commerce is affected.…

    • 1127 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Valerie Strauss' article discusses how mass school shootings affect the education of students who survive, on the Washington Post. Apparently, ever since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, the amount of students who experienced mass shootings increased, according to a Washington post analysis. In addition, there is very little research on the psychological effects of the survivors of a school shooting. Unfortunately, there seems to be more research on the motivations behind the perpetrators.…

    • 495 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    On 1st October at 10:38a.m, a horrific shooting unfolded that resulted in ten people getting killed. Including the recent gun shooting, there were several massive casualties by gun shootings such as the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. After the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, federal law enforcement agencies have taken a forward leaning approach to these types of incidents by pushing resources into the field as quickly as possible. However, why do such tragic accidents still happen? President Obama is currently trying to make some changes for gun regulation, but was unsuccessful in doing so.…

    • 704 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    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.…

    • 1155 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When someone knows and doesn’t share they could risk harming more than the person that told you. Such as school shootings and harming themselves and others.…

    • 611 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There are many alternatives but as many may not work we have to keep trying to solve these problems. Many thing will fail to stop mass shootings but we’ve got to find something. We cannot turn to something as dangerous as guns on school property it would create an even bigger problem. They had a buzz-in system at Sandy Hook, but it did them no good at all, the guy shot his way in. School-associated student homicide rates decreased significantly after the federal laws restricting guns in schools were adopted in the early 1990s, and fewer students are carrying guns.…

    • 482 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Essay On School Shootings

    • 4455 Words
    • 18 Pages

    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?…

    • 4455 Words
    • 18 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ¨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.”…

    • 634 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Prevent School Shootings

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages

    One topic has been ripping through America, resurfacing every couple months after another tragic event — Shootings. The type of shooting that I fear most take place where I am required to attend 5 days a week, 10 months of the year — school. The idea of teachers being allowed to have guns rattles me more. How do teachers being armed prevent school shootings? In fact, looking at recent news stories teachers having guns becomes an apparently bad idea.…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Teachers with Guns Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary, Virginia Tech, and Umpqua Community College… All are schools that we know very well, not because their great education or numerous awards but for sad tragic events that have filled our televisions and newspapers far too often. Archbishop Alexander K. Sample released a letter after the Umpqua Community College shooting stating, "Sadly, we live in the midst of culture that does not value the dignity and sacredness of every human life as it once did." (qtd. in Another Mass Shooting). School shootings constantly seem to be in the headlines in the United States causing many to question if schools should really be a gun free zone, should teachers be able to carry guns on school property?…

    • 1250 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    According to the article, "To Tell or Not To Tell," 4 out of 5 school shooters revealed their plans ahead of time, but no one reported any threats.” The article also stated that, "70% of people who committed suicide told someone or gave warning signs before carrying out their plan. " These numbers could be decreased significantly if more people would tell an adult about a person's harmful plan, but most teenagers have troubling deciphering whether a comment from a peer is a harmless joke or a harmful plan. Others fear they will end friendships or get called names so they decide against telling an adult. Although some teenagers of “To Tell or Not to Tell” by Mary Kate Frank argue that you should not tell an adult when a life threatening situation is happening because other teens will call you names such as tattletale, closer examination shows that you should tell an adult because it can save a person’s life.…

    • 804 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Stopping School Shootings

    • 1808 Words
    • 8 Pages

    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.…

    • 1808 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    To Tell Or Not To Tell?

    • 288 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Imagine if someone you know was planning to harm him or herself or others. Would you do something about it or just watch? Some people don’t know whether to do something or just watch it happen. Although some teenagers from the article “To Tell or Not to Tell?” by Mary Kate Frank have argued that you should not report seeing or hearing anything concerning because you will be called a snitch, closer examination shows that telling someone about something concerning could help save a life.…

    • 288 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    School shootings can lead to other violence because of the sadness that was caused by the school shooting. People do not realize that school shootings do not only affect the students who attend that school, but school shootings affect others across America. There are many ways school shooting affect children. Many students may feel anxiety about the events that took place. A lot of people worry that a school shooting or similar events could happen in their school (Brantly 1).…

    • 1283 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why? This is because keeping a secret is a goal that can be extremely difficult to accomplish. Yes, no one knows your secret today, but what about tomorrow? You may meet individuals or be part of conversations where you have to conceal the secret again. That uncertainty about what the outcome of keeping a secret generates anxiety and stress.…

    • 766 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays