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    “Just five of Everytown’s 18 school shootings listed for 2018 happened during school hours and resulted in any physical injury. Three others appeared to be intentional shootings but did not hurt anyone. Two more involved guns — one carried by a school police officer and the other by a licensed peace officer who ran a college club — that were unintentionally fired and, again, led to no injuries. At least seven of Everytown 18 shootings took place outside normal school hours.” The fact is that…

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    The weakness of these article,the author said that gun on campus is self defense. However, the number of US shooting on school in 2015 has to 52nd shooting. Moreover,there are 21 to 23 shooting on college (52 school shooting, 2015)(Sunburn, 2015). This statics should make a lot of people know that gun is a self defense or not.Also,the gun accidents always make every feel depressed when they heard this news on the television or look on newspaper because they always fear,if it happen with their…

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    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. Our first solution for preventing school shootings was based on preventing bullying. The reason we chose to prevent school bullying is because school bullying has increased by 24.5% and is one of the major reasons school shootings occur. One of…

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    anything out of the ordinary would occur. However, what if the person walking in just started shooting people? What means would the teacher and students have to defend themselves? Although Columbine was not the first, school shootings have been making national headlines ever since. A myriad of debates on the best means for keeping guns out of schools has echoed throughout the nation for over a decade. More shootings have shown there is no guaranteed solution. Since Sandy Hook, these debates…

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    reports of a school shooting, this simple phrase sends a chill down any parent’s spine. In recent years, as there have been lots of school shooting from an elementary school in Connecticut to a college in Arizona. Parents will always say that the safest place for any child is the home, but when they are away from the home they feel that the school grounds are the second best place for their child to be. If they would talk to those parents that sent their children to school that tragic shooting…

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    Do you remember the recent Las Vegas massacre, Orlando nightclub shooting or even UPS California shooting? How do you feel about them? Is America really safe? In the Columbine school shooting, 13 people dead and more than 20 others injured. Famous filmmaker Michael Moore explores the environment and background in which the attack took place, Moore investigates the brutal nature of violence in the US. During this documentary different techniques and angle shots were used to try and manipulate the…

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    experiences a parent can go through. In the media, today we continually hear about school violence, particularly school shootings. Parents are having to bury their children, because of these senseless acts of violence. As a society, we are all looking for answers as to why school shootings continue to happen and how to prevent them from happening in the future. The best way to try and understand why school shootings are happening is to look at the common factors amongst the shooters. Sandy…

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    “School shooting” is a headline on the news that is unfortunately very common to see today. There have been hundreds of shootings in the United States throughout the year and they have been studied to see their similarities. Many people believe that the shooters are alike, yet others disagree and believe that the shootings are just random. School shootings could be better addressed and prevented if authorities understood that these shooters share a similar set a similar set of traits like…

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    the Columbine School shooting. “Columbine was one of the first major shootings in school and it blindspott everyone. When the one year anniversary hit, people were still talking about it.” she explained. This event didn’t only affect the society outside of Columbine it had the hardest tole on the citizens of Colorado. “For the students there was an"untold number"who turned to drugs and alcohol to cope. 150 staff members made a commitment to stay, but four years after the shooting, almost…

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    highschool. Everyone knows about the Columbine High School School Massacre in 1999. It was where 2 seniors of Columbine High School killed 12 students, one teacher, and also injured 21 other students. The boys planned the school shooting and ever since then people have tried to recreate the Columbine school shooting at other schools. As of today September 27, 2017 there have been 242 school shootings since 2013. That is about 60 school shootings a year in the last four years the highest it has…

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