School Shootings Essay

today's school system, one of the major issues is, and always has been, school violence. Which can range from a brawl amongst students, to more tragic events, for example, school shootings. Many of us have witnessed a fight in middle school or high school. Which usually have no permanent effects. But school shootings usually have a different outcome, on January 4, 2012, in my hometown of Brownsville Texas, a student from Cummings middle school was shot and killed after running around the school…

Hate List is an astounding novel that follows the aftermath of a school shooting at Garvin High school caused by a troubled teen, Nick Levil. The story is narrated by Valerie Leftman, Nick’s ex girlfriend. She was in love with him and never thought he would shoot up their school and then ultimately commit suicide; the story follows her inner and outer turmoil as she faces loss, grief, and resentment. Nick and Valerie created a “hate list” one day to let out their bottled up rage and resentment…

Umpqua Community College shooting On October 1st, 2015, a 26 year old student, Christopher Harper-Mercer, fatally shot nine people and injured nine others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Students reported that the shooting was in his English and writing classroom, where instead of bringing his books to class that day, he brought his firearm. One survivor, Tracy Heu, stated to CNN news that “he came in and shot towards the back of the wall while telling everybody to go to the…

two students executed thirteen classmates and then turned the barrel to themselves. The attack happened in Littleton, Colorado at a school called Columbine High school. The perpetrators were two students of the school. In less than an hour they managed to earn the title of deadliest American school massacre that was perpetrated by members of the student body of a school. A title that will belong to Columbine until April 16, 2007 when a student at Virginia Tech killed thirty-two students. Eric…

guns. One reason for why this might be happening is because the guns are being used for mass school shootings, such as: the Sandy Hook shooting, the Parkland shooting, and many others that people don't even know about. This problem has now caused a controversy over whether teachers should carry guns while working in school or not. Many people believe that the only way to defend children during these shootings is if the staff carry guns. Although this idea seems to have many great advantages…

Has 2015 been the most threatening year? Ranging from mass shootings to terrorist threats, 2015 has been the most outrageous year. There has also been more issues on ISIS. It has been one of those years that everything was what the people did not want. Many alarming outcomes were in 2015... The most disturbing thing to hear while eating a bowl of cereal and enjoying tv is finding out more than 100 people were killed in Paris due to a terrorist attack. The information is unsettling to take in.…

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. According to the article I just read “Just five of Every town’s 18 school shootings listed for 2018 happened during…

The book I read and reviewed was Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings by Katherine Newman. She is a respected professor at Harvard Universities Kennedy School of Government and Dean of Social Science at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study so she has the appropriate credentials to investigate the social roots of school shootings. However, Newman has very little knowledge about school violence causing some sociologists to fault her for failing to have the expertise to draw upon the…

Columbine High School is most famously recognized for being one of the “deadliest school shooting in American history”, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Two high school students were to blame for this tragedy. Abc News reported that the shooters “slaughtered 12 students” and left others critically wounded with serious life threatening injures. School shooting in recent years have unfortunately become a prevalent issue in our society, they happen so often that high schools across the…

people die before their time. Drive-by shootings happen all the time as do school school shootings. School violence includes more than shootings, though. Bullying is included under that category. There is a plethora of reasons as to why a person would feel the need to harm or kill another person but no matter what, forcing pain on someone else is unnecessary and should be stopped. School violence is not only due to bullying, but also the lack of God in American school systems and America in…