Bowling for Columbine

violence that happens in schools. There’s a new school shooting on the news every week and many other awful things that happen in schools go unnoticed. In 2018 alone, there have been 18 school shootings, and it’s not even March. After tragedies like Columbine, there has been a push to prevent anything like that from ever happening again, but clearly, the efforts have not worked. A huge part of why school violence is a problem is due to police not catching the shooter/suspect before the tragedy…

General Strain Theory Wilson Sele California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) May 29, 2018 General Strain Theory The school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the recent school shootings of 2018 in the United States. The shooting claimed at least 17 people, 14 were students and three members of staff. The shooting was termed as the most deadly school massacres in the last decade. The suspect was identified by the witnesses and…

In this day and age, our nation is faced with meaningless death over the misuse of a gun. Between police brutality and school shootings, where does the chaos end? It is disgusting how guns have been the cause of some of our society's biggest issues. When hearing about the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, my heart ached for the families of the students, the students, the lives who were stolen from them, and for the community. The news of the attack and…

As of February 15th 2018 according to Sam Morris and The Guardian US interactive team there has been 1,624 mass shootings in the past 1,870 days. A mass shooting is defined by the FBI as a shooting in which 4 or more people were killed in the incident. With that being said it is clear through history that the number of mass killings has been going up at dramatic rates causing more and more conflict between communities. The question that has been asked time after time again is why are these…

Mass shootings and mass murders in schools have become a heated argument again in the United States following the recent attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Nineteen year old, expelled student Nikolas Cruz pulled the fire alarm to lure students and staff out into the hallways where he opened fire on the victims using an AR-15 assault rifle. Cruz took the lives of 17 and wounded another 14 others before being subdued and arrested. This violence has reignited the…

Bullying has a huge impact on Mass killings. A Perpetrator is a person who commits a crime. Perpetrators maybe going through many things such as illness, mental issues, and bullying, that causes them to kill the person that is bothering them. Columbine High school is one of the schools who have had a mass killing. First and foremost, bullying has a huge impact on mass killings. If someone keeps bullying a person every day, it bottles inside until you can’t take it anymore. Next thing you know,…

There has been long history of school shootings in the US. The first one happened in 1764 in America. This occurred when an American Indian entered the school and killed the principal and ten children. Another shooting happened in Salisbury, Maryland on March 9, 1873 between two teachers! Since the teacher rejected the other teacher to be in a relationship, the other got mad and brought a gun to school and shot them. These shootings all happened because there was no security there to stop it…

Schools are meant specifically for fundamental reasons. To learn, meet friends, and engage in activities. Lately, schools have become warzones and unsafe. 290 shootings have occurred since the incident in Connecticut five years ago (USA Today.) These horrible events are more prevalent now. Therefore, gun control in America should be handled more seriously because sooner or later the matters will only get worse and not improve. To avoid shootings, teachers should be able to have firearms held in…

incident is very dangerous and could have killed an innocent person . The last comment the writer had on the situation is “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,…

Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech Massacre, University of Texas Massacre, Columbine High School Massacre, these are some of the most horrific school shootings in american history… gun control activists say it's the work of loose gun laws in America. What if the real reason wasn't loose gun control laws, it's the people who have access to these guns. People say that if 2011 gun ban in the uk brought gun crimes down to the lowest they have ever been why can that work here. The writing is on the walls,…