School Shootings Essay

School shootings have been going on since Pontiac's Rebellion but there have been more than that one but those are one of the many that the people remember. A school shooting is when a “teen or a adult comes into a school and shoots up a school and hurts people some people count as a gun going off in a classroom” but that is not the definition. Why people do school shooting, how much they have went up, and how can prevent it from happening/ the sign of someone think about doing it. Some of…

shocking to say the least that so many school shootings have happened since the beginning of 2018 but who is to blame for all of this what happened or changed. Most of the blame is evenly spread across many things and people but most of it falls on parents 187,000 kids have directly experienced the terror of gun violence and most of that is blamed on bullies or stressors in the school environment (cox). It really easy to see that to, because about ⅓ of school students say they have been…

Local High School Receives a Shooting Treat In an interview with Diane Sawyer, it was discussed that nearly one school shooting happens in America a week (ABC News). This is a commons issue we see today. The thought of school shooting is an issue that is frightening to any student and one that is never expected to become reality. Sylvania Southview High School experienced a shooting threat; leaving many parents worries and many students nervous. Before the start of school on Monday January 16,…

time in school than they have to? The older I got the more I liked learning but not exactly what you learn in school. I loved learning about people and why people do what they do. I would spend hours researching behaviors such as why people murder or why people act in anger, unable to control their emotions. I don't remember the exact moment I became interested in social behavior but I was probably around the age of thirteen. I had been researching the event of the Columbine school shooting. I…

Two high school seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed thirteen and injured twenty four before turning the guns and proceeding to take their own lives.1 This was the school shooting that changed everything. It opened people's eyes to possibilities of murder-suicides happening in schools. It didn’t just affect their little town or even the state of Colorado, it prompted national debate and made everyone think twice about simply taking their daily trip to pick up their kids from school. No…

really effective he uses the two children to make the situation as if a shooter has infiltrated their school. So just like any school procedure the children have been told to go on lockdown. The two children are in their…

to horrible events, like school shootings. In passage one, it says,”More than half of the kids obtained the gun at home-likely because an adult did not store it locked and unloaded.” This shows how some children attain guns, and provides a fact about where the children receive the guns from. Teachers should not carry guns, because it would affect some students to feel unsafe, it would prove to be ineffective, and would likely strengthen more children bring guns to school. According to a…

School Shootings: Can Such Murderous Tragedies be Helpful? 74 dead. 41 wounded. 3 suicides. 59 innocent children murdered. These are the statistics of only three of the many school shootings that take place nationwide. Students and teachers were fatally harmed for no reason at all by troubled teens who struggled in their everyday lives. If they had been given proper help, would that have made a difference? If the schools had better security and safety precautions, would it have saved the…

I believe that students should be allowed to have a cellphone fat certain times of the day for their own personal use.I feel if kids had their phones with them at school it could help them stay safe in multiple situations and could help them communicate with their family if they don't have an other methods to do so. In certain situations having a phone nearby for your use could be quite useful, in situations like lockdowns and such because of a hurricane, earthquake, etc. you could use the…

over 200 school shootings in America? That is an average of nearly one shooting a week. To be specific about a school shooting there was an incident in Pittsburgh, Pa on December 17th, 2014. This school shooting occurred Sunnyside elementary school. School shootings like this one causes parents to worry about their children’s safety. Which in their defense is totally understandable. Another common question parents ask is, “how can they be more involved to help prevent gun violence in schools,…