Seung-Hui Cho

Devastating, frightening and incomprehensible, school shootings are hardly new to the United States of America. Statistics gathered from just ten school shootings, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured, representing the work product of America’s ten deadliest school shooters. To qualify as one of the ten deadliest, the shooter must have struck a minimum of ten individuals and caused at least five deaths. Yet, the question remains, what type of person…

In Adam Gopnik’s essay “Shootings,” he shows concerned with the growth of gun violence in the United Sates, and the lack of action from the government in making strong and restrictive gun control laws to prevent further deaths and massacres by guns. Gopnik was even more concerned on how easy it is for people with a history of mental illness acquiring weapons that were only made to kill people. By comparing United States with others countries which have restrictive and tightens gun control laws,…

Gun Violence on campus has been a recurring issue in the past several years with several instances of the mass shooting like the ones in Arizona state university and on Virginia tech. “.Timothy Wheeler wrote a piece called “There 's a reason they choose schools” which was published On May 1,2007,in the issue of National Review.In this article,Wheeler talks about how there may need to be a need to allow guns on campus so we can better protect ourselves against shooters.Another piece used is the…

They will know if it would ever be necessary to control a situation like they one that happened in Virginia Tech. The Virginia Tech shooting happened on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide. Campuses safety officers were not well prepared because if they were 32 people would…

and it is known as the Virginia Tech Massacre. A senior at the school named Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people while injuring 17 others before committing suicide. The shooter was found to have been diagnosed with multiple mental health problems including severe anxiety disorder. Cho had a history of crime and had even been accused of stalking two female students. After being declared mentally ill by a specialists, Cho was still able to purchase a gun. This specific shooting ignited a…

also very well known. Twenty year old Adam Lanza shot and killed twenty kids and six adults. After the attack, he too killed himself (“Adam Lanza”). Finally, the Virginia Tech shooting is very well known. The shooter was twenty three year old Seung-Hui Cho. In his attack, he murdered thirtytwo people, and killed himself after doing so (“Virginia Tech”). In all three of these cases, the shooters killed themselves afterwards. This is a very common thing for perpetrators of mass violence to…

There’s always been a large dispute over gun control and gun laws in America. However, beneath that, there’s another battle that goes on. It’s a more specific battle, revolving around the right to carry a concealed handgun. Concealed carry laws throughout the United States have sparked controversy in both sides of this battle. Whether it would be the people who support concealed carry arguing over one state’s laws, or the people who are against it trying to prevent the laws from spreading.…

Opponents of forced medication also argue that private community care has not failed; they attest that a personal relationship between health workers and patients in a friendly environment is the only “medicine” needed, not forced medication. Dr. Howard Goldman of University of Maryland School of Medicine, a Surgeon General's Medallion winner, states in his article published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry that current progress on community care has been increasing, thus bring jobs, homes,…

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is one of the three deadliest American school shootings. The other two happened at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School. In the Sandy Hook shooting, Adam Lanza obviously had some form of mental illness. Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter at Virginia Tech, was diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder and received therapy and special education support for this throughout his junior year in high school. He stalked two female students…

In the article "I am Adam Lanza 's Mother" author Liza Long tries to shed a light on the mental illness issue that has been plaguing this country. Long is a mother of a 13-year-old mentally ill son that has fits of violent rage on regular basis. She felt the need to write a blog after the Sandy Hook tragedy. Sandy Hook was an elementary school located in New Town, Connecticut where a 20-year-old named Adam Lanza was able to get a gun and kill 27 people. This sparked a national conversation about…