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of psychological first-aid programs is on the rise and targets specific disasters” (3). Schools will usually have a plan set in place, and then after a shooting happens they reevaluate and update the plan. For example, after a shooting at Virginia Tech, it was noted that it is necessary to identify potential shooters before it happens, support is needed for public health preparedness for a mass causality incident, and psychological functioning needs to be evaluated afterward…

Introduction On April 16th 2007 in Blacksburg, VA at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Seung-Hui Cho a senior at the university shot a total of 49 people, killing 32 of them, then proceeded to turn the gun on himself in one of the most disastrous school murder-suicides of all time. One of the most casualty producing school shootings of all time. The damage was the lives of the taken students and the psychological health of those at the university. Within this shooting there were two incidents.…

With technology being more accessible to people, we have the capability of receiving constant updates on the latest stories, specifically news reports. The news offers us information on health reports, the government, and crime. Typically the news is our main source of information, especially for affairs in and out of the country, and so we use the content displayed in the news in order to determine the state of the world. With the news generally reporting devastating and horrifying stories, we…

“Blood is here, blood is there. I played dead for about five minutes, he was shooting. I could hear him in another room, I could hear people screaming.” Marcus Gooden was out with friends at the popular gay club in Orlando on June 12, 2016 (WFTV) It was supposed to be an evening of dancing and enjoying time with friends.But that night and early morning, hundreds of people like Marcus spent their time in Pulse as targets in one of the worst mass shooting in US history. Pulse, which was an LGBT…

Virginia Tech University, where he majored in English to become a writer. His parents, who were hard working, took care of his college expenses while other college students used their parent’s money for the wrong reasons. Cho didn’t like that. Cho was labeled a “failure” because the book he written and proposed was rejected. No clarification onto why it was rejected. That right there could’ve been part of the reason he went on the rampage killing 32 students and wounding 17 at Virginia Tech. Cho…

Gun control in the United States is one of the biggest domestic issues today. The issue of whether citizens are allowed to own guns or whether they are not allowed to own guns is debated every day. Gun violence continues to rise in public places. Large cities see more gun violence than anywhere else in the United States. Part of the violence in large cities happens at schools. School shooting are terrible events. Some people believe such events could be avoided if teachers or school officials…

The 2nd Amendment was put into act on December 15, 1791. When we study the 2nd Amendment there are two arguments relating to this Amendment. The first one is the individual’s rights and that this Amendment adopted to preserve individual rights and to keep and bear arms. Secondly it adopted the rights to preserve the states militia and or military. Our states’ rights to regulate fire arms have basically been nearly absolute due to case law. The 2nd Amendment has been interpreted to keep the…

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre on April 20th, 1999. Both were seniors at the school, both kept journals largely concerned with planning the massacre, and both killed themselves at the conclusion of the shooting. Both had been bullied severely, but had friends other than each other. Harris had a history of depression and suicidal thoughts, and was prescribed medication for this. Klebold had more severe depression,…

the stockbroker, bond trader, and banker than to the waiter, policeman, fireman, and soldier, he had to accept that no two lives were worth the same in financial terms. That is until he had to compensate funds again, but this time for the Virginia Tech shootings and the death of thirty-two people. This is where he could not hold up his training with the law and said, “And I realized that Feinberg the citizen should trump Feinberg the lawyer.”(Feinberg 1) Which basically means that he should…

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…