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this has changed, with fictional killers being males more often than they had been prior, while women are now more often the victims, (Evans 3) which can be related to Rachel Scott, who is notable for being the person killed during the Columbine massacre that is brought up more often than the others, due to an anti-bullying campaign that was started because of her aforementioned death in the shooting; which because of its association with her, Rachel has became considered by some to be the major…

School shooters do not fit a common “cookie cutter” mold. Shooters are quite different in their motives and experiences. One hundred forty seven school shootings have taken place since the Sandy Hook attack where one boy shot twenty-seven people to death in an elementary school. 270 school shootings since the 1999 Columbine attack when two boys shot thirteen people in school. It is still a mystery as to how shooters keep sneaking under the nose of the public. School shootings, like Columbine,…

Applying Crime Theories to Seung-Hui Cho Tragedy struck Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, when Seung-Hui Cho opened fire on his college, campus killing thirty-two people. His family had reason to believe that something like this could happen as the result of Cho’s odd behaviors. The list of symptoms that Seung-Hui Cho displayed is practically endless, and most, if not all, can be related to different crime theories. Crime theories can be used to help explain what leads someone to commit a crime.…

School Shootings in America On November 7, 1994 teacher Lowell Grimm was one of the four victims from the school shooting at Wickliffe Middle School. The shooter, Keith Ledeger was a former student that suffered from mental illness. In the 3 minutes and 34 seconds, the gunman fired off twenty rounds, and hit four people. Grimm was shot directly in the chest after rescuing a student. He was lucky to survive this horrific act, but did lose function in his arm. The victims as well as the…

Students are not allowed to chew gum in the classroom, but in Southern states, teachers are allowed to carry guns in a room full of young children. Mass shootings have been occurring in the United States for centuries, but recently school shootings have become disturbingly frequent. Some schools believe that putting dangerous weapons in the hands of teachers will prevent or stop a mass shooting and an armed intruder. Teachers should not be allowed to carry guns in their classroom because guns…

As the country with the largest stockpile of privately owned firearms, we aren’t doing much to prevent them from falling on the wrong hands. According to The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act convicted felons, drug users and abusers, and mentally ill people are prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms (FBI). But, convicted criminals and mentally ill people are acquiring firearms without any difficulty and are using them for the wrong reasons mainly because of weak laws that regulate…

Brown Mackie College Gun control and 2nd Amendment in our society Amy Brame American Constitutional Law Percy Pruitt August 28, 2014 Amy Brame Percy Pruitt American Constitutional Law 26 August 2014 Gun Control and the 2nd Amendment in our society One of the rights that have made America the land of the free is found in the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution. The right to “Bear Arms”, which should never be infringed by any means necessary. Recently people have been looking…

The influence of society plays a major role in the rise of violence has been debated. The more violence that is shown on television the more the youth is exposed to it. Today people dislike watching the news because it is always something negative showing. It’s always a murder or a drug bust. The rise of drugs in the community is scoring through the roof. School programs such as D.A.R.E. have been declared not to be as effective as they had hoped initially. School shootings have plagued across…

On April 16, 2007 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado one of the deadliest school shootings in the history of the United States took place. Two teenagers by the name of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold rigged two bombs fitted inside duffel bags to explode in the middle of Columbine High School, when these bombs failed to detonate Harris and Klebold began there killing spree. Resulting in thirteen casualties and twenty injured before committing suicide (History.com). People have come up…

Gun laws fill enormous gaps that exist in our nation’s federal laws and also help reduce gun violence and keep the citizens safe. Most of the countries that with the strongest gun laws have the lowest gun death rate. The mass shooting in schools in America is done by kids having control over guns. Diane Dimond, a reporter and journalist who published the article “Kids and Guns and Public Safety” argues that to prevent future mass shootings, gun owners need to take personal responsibility. Diane…