Bowling for Columbine

April 19 has become an infamous day for our Nation. It marks the date in which the Branch Davidian in Waco, Texas was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigations in 1993. Where 80 Americans including 24 children were killed in a fire that was set to straw and gasoline while the FBI raided their compound (PBS). The leader there was David Koresh who led his people in a shootout following with a mass suicide against the government raid. This in turn would be the reason for what led to the…

According to the article, "To Tell or Not To Tell," 4 out of 5 school shooters revealed their plans ahead of time, but no one reported any threats.” The article also stated that, "70% of people who committed suicide told someone or gave warning signs before carrying out their plan." These numbers could be decreased significantly if more people would tell an adult about a person's harmful plan, but most teenagers have troubling deciphering whether a comment from a peer is a harmless joke or a…

On 5-10-2016 I Pltm. Butram responded to Madison High School for a criminal damage report. Upon arrival I spoke with Assistant principal Jack Whaley. Mr. Whaley stated a student by the name Thomas Bryan was causing a disturbance in a classroom. Mr. Whaley stated after Thomas and the teacher Devin Artz exchange words, Thomas walk out of the classroom slamming the door. Mr. Whaley stated Thomas slammed the door with enough force it shattered the glass from the door. Mr. Whaley stated the glass…

Studies have shown that, despite the belief children know better than to handle firearms, in a controlled social experiment children are likely to accept and play with a firearm despite their parents teaching them not too (Robinson). To reduce the supply of firearms you must first limit the demand through educational programs. One way to do that is through threat and police enforcement. An increased “crackdown” on gun ownership and public carry of firearms has proved successful (Braman). Similar…

Fire from the rock By sharon M. Draper In Fire From The Rock the main character is Sylvia, she is an African American, that has one brother named Gary and one little sister named Donna Jean. She can be considered a middle child, and is 16 years old. She one of many other students to be on the list for the integration of central high school. She does the right thing when she takes her name of the list at the end of the book, to have a normal highschool life. Reggie is another student that in…

Shooting in the dark, since the 1950’s social scientist has been studying the effects media violence have on behavior, video games in particular do to its realistic, bloody gore features. On this article the author talks about the young man who open fire at the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and other massacres that have happen in the United States and what they all had in common. They were all video gamers who were believe to be acting out a dark digital fantasy, and the idea to go on a…

O nce the student bodies at all of the Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, both the sixteen that were Archdiocesan controlled and the eight that were Archdiocesan associated, were dismissed, the same also occurred for the faculty and staff. But over the course of the next several hours, however, IDA commandos secretly infiltrated the grounds of Archbishop Robertson, accessing it by means of a Teleportation Transponder from its Otherworld version. In the wake of their…

I think metal detectors should be in schools for safety reasons of students and staff from students bringing in weapons and other staff members so no one gets hurt. There have been many school shootings over the past couple of years around the US. Some major some not that bad but people still get scared and shot. Some people have brought in knives and have cut people or stab them. And i don’t think that is okay we should try to prevent that from happening. I say “Schools need to take all…

The causes of gun crime are showing to have happened due to mental illness. The saying “It’s the person no the gun.” is quite relevant for this topic. A gun cannot pull its own trigger. Many cases where there has been a mass shooting. The gunman has a mental illness. The Sandy Hook Elementary shooting is an example of the gunman having a mental illness. The gunman was 20 year-old man Adam Lanza. He used guns his mother had at her house first killing her then driving her car to the Sandy Hook…

funding of armed guards is not plausible, Colorado must allow teachers the ability to protect the children. Furthermore, the Colorado legislature can provide funding for metal detectors at the entry points to each facility. In an article published in the Journal of School Health, “Impacts of Metal Detector Use in Schools: Insights From 15 Years of Research∗” published the findings of their research on the use of metal detectors in school. When the School Safety Administration asked about the…