Peterloo Massacre

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…

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…

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…

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,…

In 2002, the critically acclaimed documentary “Bowling for columbine” was released by left-wing activist, Michael Moore, which displays his bias and negative opinion towards America’s second amendment and much of what it represents. Moore uses a vast variety of documentary techniques to illustrate the uncontrollable and hazardous nature of gun and general weapon accessibility in America and how changes are needed as it promotes violence. As seen in the film, Moore uses many documentary devices…

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…