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    Hate List Life is not fair. A school is a safe place where you will study and make friends, not to die or be afraid. In these days school shootings has been increased where innocent people die. There will be some methods to prevent a school shooting, so there are no more people affect. As a result of the violent in the social media students create in depth plans to kill other innocent people in mass shootings. There are methods to prevent school shooting that involve schools, communities and…

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    I currently live in Greenbrier, Arkansas, which is a small city of roughly 5,370 people. Since we have a somewhat small population, students know one another either by name or by face. However, If you were to ask me how comfortable I felt going to a public school in the 21st century, I would say extremely uncomfortable. According to Westword News, Parkland School is 208th school shooting since Columbine. Many sources say that in just 2018, America has experienced about 18 school shootings.…

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    What would you do if our school was being attacked by a school shooter? The chances of that happening are very low because of the Prime Minister John Howard, who changed the gun laws because of the massacre at Port Arthur. But in America, they still haven’t changed the laws after One hundred and forty-two school shootings. Many of the Presidents in America will not alter the laws because of the pervasive gun culture that stems from its colonial history. They also come from the Second Amendment…

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    Mass Shooting Thesis

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    How? On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School occurred killing 17 and injuring many more in Parkland, Florida. Nikolas Cruz arrived to the school using and Uber and pulled the fire alarm “so kids would come pouring out of classrooms and into the hall”. He used an AR-15 assault rifle and had smoke grenades(he had a gas mask). Cruz killed 17 people in this shooting, fourteen students and three teachers. Many people were affected by this shooting including the…

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    of the school by blending in with evacuating pupils. Police caught him in a nearby town soon after the shooting. This scene and the surrounding area after the shootings shifted from chaos and panic to grief, anger, and calls for swift and aggressive action to prevent other school attacks. Educational leaders around the country have reassessed their safety plans, sought to reassure anxious parents amid an uptick in copycat threats and heard calls from policymakers to "harden schools" with more…

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    Omar Mateen Case Report

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    On June 12th, 2016, Omar Mateen opened fire on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida killing 49 people and injuring 53 others in a hate crime and alleged terrorist attack. After a three-hour long standoff with the Orlando Police Department, Mateen was shot and killed by officers at the scene. This was the most fatal single gunman mass shooting and the deadliest act of violence towards the LGBTQIA+ community in American History. Due to his pledge of allegiance to ISIS on a 911 call with the…

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    One of the biggest problems in high schools today is the overwhelming amount of 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…

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    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 arrested by the police. The 19-year old, Nikolas Cruz stated that he was the perpetrator after being taken to the Broward County Sherriff's Office (Ryan, 2018). He was…

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    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…

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    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…

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