Mass murder

BAM! on an average day, 91 people die of gun violence, according to EverytownResearch.org. There are over 12,000 gun murders in an average year in the United States. Also, a black man is 10 times more likely to be shot with a gun than a white man (“Gun Violence”). But what does race, age, or ethnicity have anything to do with murders with a firearm? For a person to better understand gun control, they would have to look at what gun control is, what are the causes of gun violence, people who agree…

Everybody is aware of mass killings. They hear about them all the time on the news or on social media. Most of them are not as drastic as the media portrays them to be, but none the less they still hurt numerous people. There has been a lot of research done to try and figure out what triggers these killings and the type of people the will go through with killing a group of people. Between the different types of mass killings to how they classify the offenders and why they do it and to the…

Compassion for the Killer Throughout In Cold Blood, Truman Capote writes with bias and embellishes much of the story of the 1959 Clutter Family mass murder. As Capote researched further into the murders, he developed a personal attachment to one of the killers. Even Capote’s most significant claims surrounding the Clutter Family mass murder are unreliable, as he is strongly biased towards one of the killers. Capote’s portrayals of the two murderers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith, vary,…

about how influences serial killers. The psychological abuse that serial killers endure when they are young is often so traumatic that it negatively impacts the development of the brain so severely that it can cause a higher risk for them killing. Murders have been present for…

clarify is what classifies a mass murder. The definition that we will use is a perpetrator who intentionally kills at least three victims other than him or her self in a single incident. We will narrow the scope to those who used firearms as their choice of weaponry in order to exclude bombings, car accidents, and planes. The results were that from 1949 to 1998 there were thirty mass murderers. Out of those thirty twenty of them were committed during 1985. All the mass murderers in the specific…

“One Murder made a Villain / Millions a Hero.” – Death: A Poetical Essay by Beilby Porteus, 1759 Utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham first coined the modern interpretation of utilitarianism in 1812, as a “defined utility as the aggregate pleasure after deducting suffering of all involved in any action,” or in simpler terms, the most good for the most amount of people, serving to maximize pleasures and/or minimize suffering. How did a moral based principle created by a social reformer, less than a…

For one to even start deluding themselves into believing ‘murder is murder,’ one would have to define murder in a way that passes common approval, in this case, the killing of ‘a’ human being. The ‘a’ in that definition implies any number of people killed, which exposes the flaws in the argument of ‘murder is murder.’ By not specifying the number of people killed, an accident such as a flowerpot tumbling from an apartment windowsill that kills an unfortunate passerby, which would normally be…

one of the character’s head and this resulted in violence. After reading this book one might think humans are bad after all. I believe humans are bad because they are discriminate towards those who are different from them and because humans commit murder and torture the innocent. William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies shows that humans are bad because they discriminate those who are different. For example, the character Piggy is the target for the discrimination…

ears of the forensic pathologist at the scene. The investigator must do their best to find answers for families who have lost loved ones. (A Guide to Death Scene Investigation. (n.d.) The Types of Murder When determining how the death occurred there are four modes- accidental, natural, suicide, and murder- to decide out of. Accidental deaths pose as natural such as an automobile wreck or accidental drug overdose. Natural deaths happen naturally such as a heart attack or stroke. Suicide is the…

wanting to commit the crime of murdering someone. The death penalty should be legal in all states. According to the legal dictionary, murder is the unlawful killing of another human being without justification or proper excuse. Murder is a brutal act of killing someone in cold blood who was innocent. The crime of murder fits the punishment of the death penalty. Mass murderers such as Charles Manson, who is known for…