Virginia Tech massacre

On April 16, 2007 a student at Virginia Tech murdered and injured a large number of fellow students and faculty. Prior to the incident, he had displayed signs of violent thoughts and behavior to his instructors. As a younger child, he had also been troubled. However, at that age, he had received psychiatric help due to his parents’ involvement (Virginia Tech Review Panel). It is possible that if he had received help as an adult, this crisis could have been avoided. Unfortunately, the student’s…

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,…

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On April 16, 2007, college students on the Virginia Tech University campus witnessed the most deadly mass killing by a single student shooter in the United States history. A senior student killed a whopping thirty-two students, along with wounding seventeen others on the university’s campus. Meanwhile, in 2008, five people were killed and twenty-one were injured on Northern Illinois University campus by a former graduate student. These horrific events brought a nationwide debate and controversy…

Columbine & Criminal Justice Criminal justice researchers studied the bills projected after key school shootings such as Columbine and Virginia Tech. Truth be told, school shootings happen quite regularly. The public generally does not hear about them unless they are on a significant level of death with at least 10 people having been murdered. It has become quite the norm for the media outlets to report what they would like for citizens to hear. There have been public school and university…

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 do. Also,…

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…

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, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook happen for three significant reasons: hidden mental issues, accessibility and negligence of weapons, and ineffective safety procedures. The public should understand that every school shooter and their motives are not the same.…

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…