Float In A Violent Generation

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor the protagonist during the Salem Witch trials is created to sympathize and recreate Arthur Millers experience during the scare of McCarthyism

The picture is showing how much we haven’t really changed at all in anything. Everyone has their own way of doing things in there life, their way of saying what is on there mind. But then you have those people who end up getting pushed around every which way the turn their head. One of the main reason behind the shootings is kids feeling like they need to make a point about how people do not listen to what they have to say and the shooting is the only way to (wake up some people or the town itself) According to Dewey G. Cornell and Matthew J. Mayer say on my second journal say “All too often, the response to school violence has centered on simple solutions, such as declaring that schools are gun-free zones or, alternatively, recommending that teachers arm themselves in order to ward off attacks. Perhaps the most simplistic solution has been the widespread adoption of zero-tolerance policies, which have resulted in thousands of students being expelled from school each year.” (1). That’s supposedly helping stop the shootings, expelling them and making them even more angry at the school, maybe at themselves too and wanting to do it even more so. So instead of watching the world go insane, go help others, go be the reason people finally wake up to the one word that is losing its self. There is more to life than watching what everyone else is

Although, there has been other mass shootings, such as the University of Texas massacre in 1966, or how about the first known mass school shooting in the United States, April 9, 1891, at St. Mary's Parochial School, Newburgh, New York. Although, society has experience mass school shootings for well over a hundred years, it was the Columbine High School massacre, that shocked America. Furthermore, ever since the Columbine massacre there has been numerous shootings at our educational facilities, throughout the country. Although, I have mentioned the school massacres, there have been far more violent incidents at the workplace, along with numerous mass shootings at malls, movie theaters, churches, and even grocery stores. Therefore, it is clearly understandable why society feels less safe in this

This shooting was the worst in United States history, and it left families speechless and people in disarray. Two teens committed the treacherous actions of that day. The speculations were that they did this because of bullying, goth culture, or music or video games; these though were all just theories and were never proven(history). After this event, schools, venues, and events have endured grand security increases in the danger of shooters or other violence. Throughout my school days, I have wondered why we do the silly lock down drills at school, but in reality, lives could be saved in the event of an actual attack on my school. I realized this my eight grade year at Guntown Middle School. There was an unidentified man on campus, a code red lock down would amerce. I still remember sitting under my desk, shaking, and almost to tears. I did not want to be remembered as just another statistic if it was a shooter. But it had been our lucky day, the man who had stirred up all the commotion was just looking for the school’s office. Those fears I experienced however, would stay with me. We all believe that we are invincible and that it would never be us. However, with the world as it is today, no one is safe. I have been affected by the Columbine shooting through security changes in schools that I

Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old high school honor student, was shot and killed while hanging out with friends on a rainy afternoon under a shelter in the park (CBS News). Chicagoans are living in fear; they don’t know if they are going to come back home or not. Can you imagine if just going to the corner store to buy some milk might get you shot, or just sitting in your front porch relaxing and suddenly getting shot. Kids might be playing on the park, walking to school, or hanging outside with their friends when out of nowhere, a bullet hits them.

Rampage-style school shootings are rare and tragic events. Although measures of prevention have become more advanced, school shootings have increased in frequency over the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. Here in the United States, they have become especially prevalent, with 63 shootings just this year (Acevedo). The aftermath of rampage shootings leaves gaping holes and questions in communities. People try to heal and seek closure at their own pace, but the biggest question most are left with is “why”? In Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings, Katherine S. Newman seeks to answer this question. She lays out her research and methodology for studying rampage shootings and comes to the conclusion that shootings are not spontaneous, but rather the build up of psychological issues and negative sociological situations within a student’s community that causes them to seek to regain power over their own lives through a rampage shooting. The story Rampage builds out of the narratives of shooters and their victims along with national data and trends is important because it highlights the places that our societies fail in providing a safety net for deviant students and their peers.

School shootings have been happening all over the country for the past four decades, but it wasn’t until the 1990’s what the impact from experiencing a trauma of this magnitude can do both psychological and psychically started coming to light as well as creating more national attention for the arising problem in our nation. In 1998 in small town in Oregon, Kip Kinkel walked into Thurston High School killing four and wounded twenty-three students and in 1999 in Colorado at Columbine High School Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into school killing fifteen and wounded twenty-one, making it the worst school shooting of the decade. Fast forward to 2007 and we’re in Virginia at the small college campus of Virginia Tech, were Seung-Hui Cho opened fire killing thirty two and wounding many more while then in 2008 at Northern Illinois University Steven Kazmierczak walked into Cole Hall killing five and injuring twenty one.

In 2013 there were 36 shootings causing 14 deaths, 5 suicides, and numerous injuries. In 2014 there 53 shootings causing 16 deaths, 9 suicides, and numerous injuries. In 2015 there were 73 shootings causing 25 deaths, 9 suicides, and numerous injuries(October 3 2015 School shootings in america since 2013.Everytown.org). Even the injuries cause stress and pain, let alone the suffering of those who lost loved ones in these incidents. One of the larger shootings along with columbine and sandy hook was the 2015 shooting at UCC, 8 college students and a professor were killed before the police could arrive and fix the situation. There are 4 full time and 3 part time guards working out at the college, but none were armed and therefore couldn’t solve the problem that they are supposed to. Columbine was a shooting in 1999 killing 12 students and a teacher. Sandy hook was a shooting in 2012 at an elementary school killing 20 students and 6 adults. Those 20 students were 6 and 7 year olds, they were killed before they could experience hardly anything that life has to

“There have been 220 shootings on school campuses in the U.S. since 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, according to Everytown For Gun Safety, an advocacy group.” (Krishnakumar, Priya , and Len Degroot) Many people do not feel safe attending or sending their child to a public school where they are possibly subject to a shooting. School shootings were first initially brought to the attention of the public in 1999, Columbine was one of the first school massacres that was recognized nationwide. Because of the magnitude of the shooting there is an abundance of information online bearing information of the event. First off, the shooters had identified specific targets, athletes, minorities and Christians. The two shooters had planned the firing for over a year and thought out their whole strategy. (“Columbine High School shootings.”) There was no plan in place to react to this shooting, because nothing like it had ever happened before. Although if there was, we may not hear about Columbine to the degree we do today. Columbine still is the most well known shooting and the horrific impact is still notable today across the United States. In the eighteen years since Columbine in 1999 there have been hundreds of school shootings, ranging from grade schools to college universities. Obviously, school shootings are a big problem in the United States and hopefully in time with the proper precautions taken they will eventually be eliminated forever.

One key factor in almost all of these school shootings are these students home and school lives. At home they normally don’t have a strong parent figure in their lives. They then go to school, and stand out as different, leading to being alone or bullied. Not having people there for you in your life is extremely hard, and sadly some people take it

Students at June Jordan High School were caught up in a shooting at the end of class on Tuesday. Sophomore Devianna Lucero reported that she thought it was just someone baging on the walls, until students were screaming and running to the classrooms. The next day, students came hand-in-hand, and signs stating that “All Lives Matter.” Policies believe there are 4 suspects, and one female student, who was shot, was targeted. In total, 4 students were shot, 3 sent out of the hospital, and one still healing. Shooting occurred almost every day, so students had to go through lockdowns often and counselors must upgrade their school’s security.

How would you feel if you sent your children to school... and they never came back? School shootings used to not occur very often, but since 1999, when the United States Student Massacre began, there has been a major rise in the amount of school shootings in the United States. In just the eighteen months after the Sandy Hook shooting there was a total of 74 school shootings in the United States (Fantz, Knight, and Wang). Having that many school shootings in such a short period of time is outrageous and something must be done. An investigation into the United States Student Massacre (School Shooting Movement) will be able to teach teachers, students, and others about

Columbine, Sandy Hook, and the UT Tower shooting are just a few examples of the terror parents, teachers, and students face today. More and more massacres and threats are affecting our schools on a daily basis. No one should fear to receive an education and certainly no parent should fear their child entering the doors of an elementary school. What can we do to prevent these tragedies from happening again? How can we strip the worry from the men, women and children involved in our educational systems at work today? The only options to putting an end to the untimely and unfair deaths of our teachers and students is tighter security, psych evaluations, and armed personnel. This means of security should not only be present in high schools or Jr. Highs, but should be present in all of our educational buildings, including colleges, elementary schools and child care centers. All of the places listed should be aware and willing to respond with any force necessary to protect their lives and the lives of others. More security cameras, attending at least one anti-bullying program per school year, teachers need training to psychologically assess a troubled student, and armed teachers should all play a role in defending and keeping our schools safe. This is not taking our freedom but protecting our right to live and learn.

Unfortunately, the notion of schools being a safe place is no longer a trend across American schools. Disturbing mass shootings in the U.S continue to shock the media. A school shooting is when someone attacks a school using a gun. The Secret Service says these shootings are "deliberately selected as the location for the attack". The reasons massacres occur in schools is because of poor security, violence in video games/media, and bullying. Shockingly the U.S. has the most school shootings than any other country in the world. According to the FBI, mass shootings occur, on average, every 2 weeks in the U.S. While the cause of school shootings are sometimes unpredictable, it is a growing issue and they need to be prevented. Most shooters don’t have mental issues, they have a plan to kill, so there is no singular cause that creates violent people. On April 16th, 2007, the most deadly school massacre occurred. Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two students at Virginia-Tech. As Americans, we no longer should turn on the news and witness these gruesome murders. We try to make sense of these murders, but it’s ineffectual. There are measures we can take as a society to help. The number one question in a school massacre is, "why would a person that has a capable sense of mind even do that?” It is our moral responsibility to fix these issues. In order to stop this problem, we need to find its roots.

Hour by hour minute by minute the media blinds us with propaganda and manipulates us into believing a biased opinion. People see this everyday with tabloids and the media. They lie to us with one sided opinions in politics for a quick buck and they lure people away from the truth. America needs to start thinking for themselves and stop letting the media control their lives. The media is creating filters and providing fake news on important situations in the world. And Americans need to wake up and solve this