Columbine High School massacre

Violence Prevention Research Program titled “Inside Gun Shows: What Goes on When Everybody Thinks Nobody’s Watching”, it is reported that more than forty percent of gun sales occur privately without any regulations. The report mentions the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado where Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed12 students and one teacher using four guns. The guns were bought for them by Robyn Anderson, a friend of Eric and Dylan, form The Tanner Gun Show in Denver,…

magazines talking about the recent shooting in the neighborhood of Ferguson, MO. The shooting of this young man has set fear in many people about their safety in this World. Since last year the number of shootings has occurred regularly like different school shootings, people shooting each other, and cops just thinking they can shoot anyone because of race. With these shooting we don’t necessarily hear about them all the time since it happens a lot.…

watching the news because it is always something negative showing. It’s always a murder or a drug bust. The rise of drugs in the community is scoring through the roof. School programs such as D.A.R.E. have been declared not to be as effective as they had hoped initially. School shootings have plagued across the United States. The schools seem to be the new place to go to display violent acts. Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter was found to be a very troubled student that killed thirty-two…

On April 16, 2007 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado one of the deadliest school shootings in the history of the United States took place. Two teenagers by the name of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold rigged two bombs fitted inside duffel bags to explode in the middle of Columbine High School, when these bombs failed to detonate Harris and Klebold began there killing spree. Resulting in thirteen casualties and twenty injured before committing suicide (History.com). People have come up…

Gun laws fill enormous gaps that exist in our nation’s federal laws and also help reduce gun violence and keep the citizens safe. Most of the countries that with the strongest gun laws have the lowest gun death rate. The mass shooting in schools in America is done by kids having control over guns. Diane Dimond, a reporter and journalist who published the article “Kids and Guns and Public Safety” argues that to prevent future mass shootings, gun owners need to take personal responsibility. Diane…

100. Andrew W.K. - Party Hard The sonic equivalent of shotgunning on a Four Loko, Party Hard is of this unique blend of dumb that is so stupid, it might actually be smart. Chances are, Andrew W.K. won’t win a Nobel Prize for the lyrics of his signature hit (or any other of his songs, really), but no song managed to encapsulate the spirit of doing donuts in an empty grocery store’s parking lot like this one. 99. Eminem - Lose Yourself Lose Yourself was the exact moment when Eminem was seen as…

can make the user experience short-term aggression as a result (Gauthier). When emotions of sadness and anger are mixed, it can lead to radical results, especially with video games, acting as a catalyst for instance the perpetrators of the Columbine High School shooting had a history of violent media (Gauthier). Further analysis also shows that certain individuals will witness death related stimuli which could lead to unhealthy thinking (Gauthier). Further research has established that there is…

of school shootings are perpetrated by victims of bullying. School shootings are deadly and alarming, but bullying is intimidating and greedy. These subjects intertwine together because bullying can lead to school shootings. School shootings and bullying both happen in a school environment. Bullying is an aggressive behavior usually among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. A school shooting is an occurrence in which a student uses a gun at school. School…

Murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another; also the subject of an commonly banned book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Banned in some schools -such as Glendale (CA) Unified School District in 2012- for its gruesome details of violence, accounts of rape, and profanity, In Cold Blood depicts the murder of a family. Perry Edward Smith and Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock, the killers, were hoping to gain wealth and fortune but ended up on Death Row a few years later.…

Charleston church shooting, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Aurora theater shooting, Columbine High School shooting, Empire State Building shooting these are just some of the many mass shootings that we've had within recent years. 2.0 percent to 20.2 percent suicide by fire arm in the United States and more than 80 percent of guns used in mass shootings are obtained legally. 67.8 percent of homicides in the United States involved a firearm but gun control is a big issue due to the fact of…