Pearl High School shooting

of eight. He also claimed to have been severely bullied throughout his life. He said his classmate began picking on him as early as kindergarten. In a manifesto written he says “All throughout my life, I was ridiculed, always beaten, always hated” However, friends of Luke’s testified that his mother was “just a normal mom”. There are surely reports that Luke was bullied by his peers, but there are also reports that stated he wasn’t mistreated as badly as he alleged, or as badly as other peers were bullied. Luke Woodson also claimed to be a part of a cult led by Grant Boyette, an older high school student. Witnesses testified that Grant Boyette would preaching satanic teachings to members of the group, later named “The Kroth.” Despite whether or not he was mistreated at home and at school, on October, 1 1997 Luke Woodham committed murder. On the morning of October 1, 1997 before heading to school, Luke Woodham reportedly viciously stabbed and beat his mother, Mary Woodham to death. On the stand, Woodham described killing his mom saying “I remember I woke up that morning, and I had seen the demons I 'd seen all the time when Grant had told me to do something. And he was telling me that I was nothing and that I 'd always be nothing; and I remember getting the knife, and I got a pillow. And I walked into my mother 's room. And I remember Grant 's voice and he told me that I had to do all of this... I remember I just closed my eyes, and I just followed myself. I didn 't want to…

In the first half of 2016, the United States alone has had over 136 mass shootings (by definition, an incident in which four or more people are wounded or killed), and is growing rapidly. (Gun Violence Archive) This topic in particular has been one of heavy discussion in the past few years, due to a wide range of interests. Is it because of the current implementation on firearm laws in the United States, or something much more sinister? In today’s world, the moment that a mass shooting erupts…

all governments due to the tragedies of recent school shootings around America like Sandy Hook. So many were moved by what happened at Sandy Hook and tried to find ways to prevent this from ever happening again but this is no easy task. People all over the US today are seeing their gun rights put to the test even though they may not even know it. Government is trying its best to prevent gun violence without having people lose some of their freedoms. People everywhere…

School shootings are something that we know about, in Canadian history they are something we aren 't oblivious to. The Montreal Massacre significantly affected Canada in terms of equality, justice and safety. Numerous individuals had differentiating perspectives on the massacre that took place. Many questions were raised: Why did Marc Lépine shoot and murder fourteen women, while leaving the men alive? Why was Lépine yelling "You’re all feminists?", yet shooting at women who guaranteed they…

gone down. One specific topic that Pinker and Mack focused on in their article was mass shootings. They used data in order to create a graph of the trend of mass killings. In Figure 1 we can see how mass shootings have decreased immensely from 1945 to 2013. Figure 1: One type of mass shootings is those that are committed at school. Violence at schools has recently been popping up more and more frequently on the news lately. For instance there are the more known incidences of Sandy Hook,…

Anna, Carol Stuckey, Eddie Stuckey, America, Sherry Local, and Bill North. All seven of these characters are portrayed by the same actress, which initially adds to the confusion, but eventually as the audience familiarizes themselves with the dialect for each character, differentiating between them becomes as easy as if each character was portrayed by their own actor. As the show moves forward, the ambiguity of the situation dissipates through the information added by each character. Whether…

He killed three teenagers, injured three more teenagers and surrendered the same day of the shooting. He is one of the many male school shooters in history but what sets him aside from the rest was his lack of remorse and motive for the shooting. When he entered the courtroom, he removed his dress shirt to reveal a handwritten t-shirt that said “Killer” scrawled across the front. After receiving his sentence, Lane addressed the victims’ families and the courtroom by saying, “This hand that…

Among African Americans and Hispanic adolescent boys, homicide is the leading cause of death, 100,000 children bring weapons to school every day in the United States (Hoffman and Summers, 2001). The increasing rates of youth violence appears to be a worldwide phenomenon in industrialized nations. Possible explanations for the increase vary from country to country and include drug trafficking, family breakdown, political turmoil and increased gang activity (Hoffman and Summers, 2001). In the…

The great majority 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…

Mass killings (defined by the FBI as episodes in which 3 or more people are killed), specifically school shootings, have been in the news many times over the past 16 years (Ehrenfreund). Since that deadly day at Columbine High School in 1999, student safety has become an increasing concern, with the opposing topics of arming school administrators versus gun control at the forefront of debates. Lawmakers, parents, students, and administrators discuss the ongoing topic of gun-carrying laws in…