Bowling for Columbine Essay

The column “The Power of Good” by Ben Shapiro published by TownHall.com on October 04, 2017, focuses on the good acts that arose from the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas. Shapiro, a political columnist, responds to the massacre at a concert in Las Vegas to highlight the good that can come from a horrible event. Shapiro uses his diction to conceive vivid descriptions, first-hand interviews, and malicious events that contrast with his opinion to present it as fact to advocate his point that…

The best way to try and understand why school shootings are happening is to look at the common factors amongst the shooters. Sandy Hook, Columbine, and Virginia Tech are some of the most common references made when talking about school shootings. In an article by Julian Kimble, in Complex, “Memories of a Massacre: What We 've Learned 15 Years After Columbine,” Kimble states that in 1999 two shooters, both students entered the school and opened fire. There were 15 dead and 23 injured in the…

Gun control is a highly engaged debated topic and always has been. Many people feel banning guns and creating gun free zones is the answer to stopping mass shooting and people being killed daily. Except they’re wrong. According to Freedom Outpost, 92 percent of mass shooting have occurred in gun free zones. Why? The answer is simple, bad guys know good people do not have guns to protect themselves. One argument that reoccurs is not the gun that kills, but the people who kill with a gun. "The…

In the article "I am Adam Lanza 's Mother" author Liza Long tries to shed a light on the mental illness issue that has been plaguing this country. Long is a mother of a 13-year-old mentally ill son that has fits of violent rage on regular basis. She felt the need to write a blog after the Sandy Hook tragedy. Sandy Hook was an elementary school located in New Town, Connecticut where a 20-year-old named Adam Lanza was able to get a gun and kill 27 people. This sparked a national conversation about…

Following the shooting, establishment and mainstream media such as the New York Times and CNN cited “media violence (such as the game Doom) and other pop culture elements (such as the Gothic subculture) as the second most often discussed cause of the Columbine shooting” (Ferguson 471). It should seem quite silly that the news media was able to get away with this kind of journalism. To them, the causes of the massacre were video games and trench coats, at least that’s what one would believe as…

Due to isolated incidents such as the Columbine or Sandy Hook shooting, some speculate that there is a correlation between playing video games and committing a heinous act against innocent people. This type of logic is simply unfounded, as any good statistician will point out. In fact, a 2004…

Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado is home to one of the deadliest high school shootings in United States history. On April 20, 1999, two Columbine High School students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, went on a shooting rampage at their high school (shooting teachers and students) killing fifteen, including themselves, and injuring twenty-four others. The two very-troubled boys hoped to kill thousands of people, but when their homemade bombs failed to detonate, they resorted to guns…

By Federal law gaining legal access to a gun is a process simpler than a refinancing a family home in the United States. Our government states that under federal law a licensed gun dealer cannot sell any handguns and/or ammo to anyone that is under 21 and can’t sell long arms (Shot guns/ rifles) to anyone under the age of 18 but an unlicensed dealer cannot sell handguns to anyone under 18 and can sell long arms to anyone regardless of age. Everyday there are up to nine deaths under the age of 21…

may explain why most shooters are middle-aged, because these frustrations and disappointments take years to accumulate. Moreover, there are mass shooters which fit this pattern but are not necessarily middle-aged. An example is, once again, the Columbine shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. They were 17 and 18 years old respectively, but had long suffered frustrations since their early life. Their motivations and early frustrations will be expanded later on. Most shooters, however, are…

In 2004, a study was conducted to find out how many school shooters actually played violent video games. Only 5 out of 41 surveyed shooters claimed to have an interest in violent video games, that is 12%. Ever since video games have become violent, people have been falsely connecting the amount and severity of violent video games and the increase in crime rates. They are saying violent video games are what causes people to do violent things. The problem is that the majority of mass/school…