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    incident is very dangerous and could have killed an innocent person . The last comment the writer had on the situation is “Just five of Everytown’s 18 school shootings listed for 2018 happened during school hours and resulted in any physical injury. Three others appeared to be intentional shootings but did not hurt anyone. Two more involved guns — one carried by a school police officer and the other by a licensed peace officer who ran a college club — that were unintentionally fired and, again,…

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    Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech Massacre, University of Texas Massacre, Columbine High School Massacre, these are some of the most horrific school shootings in american history… gun control activists say it's the work of loose gun laws in America. What if the real reason wasn't loose gun control laws, it's the people who have access to these guns. People say that if 2011 gun ban in the uk brought gun crimes down to the lowest they have ever been why can that work here. The writing is on the walls,…

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    On Valentine’s Day, a former student walked into Parkland High School, Florida and shot 14 students and 3 staff members,” my friend informed me. I couldn’t believe what I was ry hearing. After students heard about the school shooting they wanted to protest for gun control, so our school had a walkout day. I already knew that gun violence is the #1 cause of deaths in America, but I didn’t know that it is so common in High School. I wanted to know more about the causes of gun violence in High…

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    School shootings have been going on since Pontiac's Rebellion but there have been more than that one but those are one of the many that the people remember. A school shooting is when a “teen or a adult comes into a school and shoots up a school and hurts people some people count as a gun going off in a classroom” but that is not the definition. Why people do school shooting, how much they have went up, and how can prevent it from happening/ the sign of someone think about doing it. Some of…

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    The failed bombing and subsequent shooting of Columbine High School in 1999 was one of the most eye opening and unexpected events of the 90s. All shreds of normalcy disappeared for teens and parents alike as a safe haven for children was turned shooting gallery. Many images that came out of Columbine were striking, heart wrenching, or maddening, but the image selected portrays one of the rawest emotions coming out of the tragedy: the unmeasurable amount of mourning and loss felt in the affected…

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    Tyler Junior College When will it end? Madalyn Garrett Total Hours = 21 hours GOVT – 2305 Dr. Khosrowshahi November 6th, 2017 When will It end? The number of innocents killed change, the settings change, 13 at a high school, 26 at an elementary school campus, 49 inside a night club, 58 outside at a country music festival. The faces to remember change every time, but weapons are the only things that stay consistent. Most of the mass killings in the U.S. are from handguns, but often are…

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    In America’s schools, gun violence is the leading cause of death. Schools will be safer if we introduce tougher gun laws and regulations. AR-15s are most used in shootings. Guns like AR-15s are not meant for hunting, we do not need guns like this. If we banned AR-15s we would decrease school shootings. Gun control would help make schools safer. Attacking a school with a knife is not as effective as an attack with a gun. A shocking night of violence took place on February 20, 2018, with six…

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    This year alone there have been over twenty mass shootings (“2018 School Shootings”, Para. 1). Mass shootings have been a major problem for decades, it all started with the shooting at Columbine the most famous one. Ever since that shooting things have been spiraling out of control with no fix. The fix that we have needed for decades was arming teachers.Teachers should most definitely be armed because it would prevent more people from being killed, deter shooters from entering schools in the…

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    Columbine… The worst school shooting in the twentieth century… Why did Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris commit this gruesome act of violence? We all would like to think that we know the answers, but in reality, we’re far from knowing what was really going on in their minds. What were their motives? Were they bullied, or were they just going insane? Dylan Klebold was born in Lakewood, California. He was born into a passive and church going family. Dylan was in a program for the gifted in his…

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    This was the worst school shooting in the history of the United States. We will go over the facts, theories, and solutions that were directly linked with the Columbine High School Massacre. The theories that I will be using in this paper are the Social Control and Labeling. These theories go over self-identity and behavior of individuals which will be used to identity or to classify what categories these individuals belongs in. As well as the process of socialization and social learning skills…

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