Bowling for Columbine

Sides, Many Opinions, One Goal. Mass killings (defined by the FBI as episodes in which 3 or more people are killed), specifically school shootings, have been in the news many times over the past 16 years (Ehrenfreund). Since that deadly day at Columbine High School in 1999, student safety has become an increasing concern, with the opposing topics of arming school administrators versus gun control at the forefront of debates. Lawmakers, parents, students, and administrators discuss the ongoing…

Writing school shootings are cruel.School shootings can happen out of nowhere and it’s scary for the the teachers and the students. The students will be terrified and don’t know how they will respond from they will be running across the classroom to hid and some will will be hiding under desks. School shooting are happening around the world and the kids will scared for days, grade school student will be scared because they won’t know how to act during it. It’s for any student in any school…

I thought then, that the American people would never let a child stare down the end of a barrel again. Sadly, I was gravely mistaken. Since Sandy Hook, five years ago, 7,000 more children have died from gun violence in the United States. Since Columbine, 187,000 students have been exposed to gun violence in their school. The United States is a nation of trauma—a nation in perpetual grief. Too many parents never get to see their children grow up—never to see their child get their first job, drive…

parents succumb to their son’s trickery. His mother claimed she had no indication of her son’s suicidal state, “The cruel behaviour that would define the end of his life showed me that he was a completely different person from the one I knew.” (My son Columbine shooter). Although Klebold's camouflage was successful in his case, his acquaintance Harris found more trouble…

Reflection Paper The documentary that my group created was titled “Safety at Central High School”. We chose this title because our film focused on Central and its safety issues. In this documentary we wanted to not only show the issues of safety within Central, but also how it connects to the recent mass school shootings across the United States. We also wanted to get an understanding of the students perspective and if they themselves feel safe at Central. The demographic our film concentrated…

On April 16, 2007, college students on the Virginia Tech University campus witnessed the most deadly mass killing by a single student shooter in the United States history. A senior student killed a whopping thirty-two students, along with wounding seventeen others on the university’s campus. Meanwhile, in 2008, five people were killed and twenty-one were injured on Northern Illinois University campus by a former graduate student. These horrific events brought a nationwide debate and controversy…

in Jodi Picoult’s novel “Nineteen Minutes.” In this novel, the teenager went on a killing spree in his high school, Sterling High. We have also seen scenarios like this one play out in real life. One example of this is Eric Harris, a student at Columbine High School in Colorado. On April 20th, 1999 Eric brought guns into his school and went on a shooting rampage with the help of his partner Dylan Klebold. This massacre resulted in the death of 12 students, one teacher, and both of the…

Tragedies such as school shootings effect many people. Between families, the school districts, and the community, people are more concerned than they have ever been about safety in schools. According to an article from Tampa Bay Times, “at least 74 school shootings had occurred since December 2012.” With that number still growing; written by Bangor Daily News, who reported that since January 2013 there has been, “143 school shootings…which is an average of one a week since Sandy Hook.” This has…

60% of middle school boys and 40% of middle school girls who played at least one Mature-rated (M-rated) game hit or beat up someone, compared with 39% of boys and 14% of girls who did not play M-rated games. Role playing violence is heartfull to teens.Teens who role play violence are more likely to be bullies in school,have bad behavior or think violence is ok in the future.Kids in New York schools are participating in a violent role playing activity where, they have teams and have to take out…

Columbine & Criminal Justice Criminal justice researchers studied the bills projected after key school shootings such as Columbine and Virginia Tech. Truth be told, school shootings happen quite regularly. The public generally does not hear about them unless they are on a significant level of death with at least 10 people having been murdered. It has become quite the norm for the media outlets to report what they would like for citizens to hear. There have been public school and university…