Gun Violence Walkouts

Bowling for Columbine film by Michael Moore is a film in which its central argument is that Americans are afraid of each mainly because of the media whose goals are to put fear in the American community. Unlike several documentaries this one is unique; this film is intended to appeal to the audience who are against guns or are pro-gun control and safety. Across this film, Moore’s takes all of the audience through an exploration of the history of guns and violence, and with the big question, we all ask when a young adult commits a violent act, whom should we blame for this? We start off with ethos or credibility.

In the article, “Why I Didn’t Join My Schools Walkout” by Dakota Hanchett March, the author claims that he did not join the walkout because it did not just honor the students killed in the Florida school shooting but also it protested firearms. March does not agree with the prohibiting of guns because he himself owns a gun and uses it regularly. To him, people are the problem not the guns. Everyone reading this piece can clearly see his side of the argument and at points would be able to agree with him. He connects to everyone with relating to people's emotions, his credibility and sharing his different personal stories.

For example, in 1999 thirteen people, including a teacher, were murdered at Columbine High School. Nine years later tragedy struck again at Virginia Tech University where 32 people were gunned down including five staff members. Most recently, a gunman killed 20 innocent elementary students along with six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut (Rostron 439-440). LSUA cannot be the next school to be added to this list. Schools are supposed to be a safe place for everyone and not a high risk danger zone. These school shootings have sparked debates whether or not teachers should be allowed to carry guns in schools to protect themselves, as well as students (Rostron 440). Although guns can do bad things, they can do good things like saving lives. National Rifle Association Vice President Wayne LaPierrce says “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” (Rostron 441-442). Politicians and the media want us to believe that more harm is done with guns than good and make us believe it’s the gun’s fault it killed someone, not the person who shot then gun (Rostron 454). My solution to fix LSUA’s small amount of security around campus and the

It mentions several mass school shootings involving children and how common this has become. The author believes the government is showing to be incentive to their lives by not putting better gun laws in place. The author has a strong opinion against the Republicans and blames them for the deaths. Although, this article focuses more on how the government should fix the issue, it could still prove useful in the essay. This information on current gun laws could be used as background to the cause of the problem being addressed in the essay. It may be able to bring a stronger emotion to the essay to making people realize since the government is not doing anything we must take it into our own hands. However, the idea of creating stricter gun laws should be a focused solution in the essay, since people do not have much control over

On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 I chose to participate in a school activity. The activity I chose to participate in was about the Douglas shooting. Seventeen Lives were lost on February 14,2018. So I did a walkout March 14, 2018 to demonstrate that I am standing with Douglas high school. The walkout was not a protest, but it was a demonstration. Everyone who decided to walkout, and I demonstrated that we are stronger as a whole. We must stay united for the Seventeen innocent lives that were lost. We also all demonstrated that we want a safe school without gun violence or any violence. This is why most people participated in this walkout. One thing that is really important that I have heard before is, “ Guns don't kill people, because people kill

“Shooting massacres” in school settings, a new phenomenon within the past 50 years, are extremely rare events. Over 23 years, 1990-2012, 215 fatal school shooting incidents resulted in 363 deaths, equivalent to 0.12% of national firearm homicides during that time period …… Among these, just three shooting rampages – Columbine High School, Virginia Tech University, and Sandy Hook Elementary School – accounted for 72 (53.3%) of these 135 deaths. The frequency of random/ rampage shooting incidents in schools has remained within the narrow range of 0 to 3 episodes per year.” (Shultz, et al., 2013, p. 84)

Thirteen people were killed at Columbine High School in 1999, thirty-three died during the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, and twenty-seven people, twenty of whom were children no older than seven, were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 (Kirk). These name only a few of the larger and most well-known school shooting incidences. In total, 297 people have lost their lives due to school-based shootings since 1980 (Kirk). Although this number may be small in comparison to death by guns overall, these instances are completely unwarranted and it is likely that they could have been avoided or at the very least reduced. These people, college and high school students, teachers, and even children, might still be alive today if our

The issue of gun violence will never go away. There will always be someone on the other side. The artist of this visual argument, Rob Smith Jr., seemed to have an unpopular opinion in terms of today's world. On February 14th 2018 a young man went into a school in Parkland, Florida and wreaked havoc. 17 students and teachers had their lives taken from them.

Numerous studies have been conducted to determine if teachers should be in possession of a firearm while on school properties and if this will decrease the number and magnitude of school shootings. Many scholars believe equipping teachers with firearms will be costly and end up unnecessarily endangering more students, but many scholars claim that a teacher should be the last line of defense against a school shooter. The question this paper hopes to answer is how can equipping teachers who teach grades K-12 help to prevent school shootings in the United States. This paper will attempt to answer that question by examining the perspectives of school administration and law enforcement, the impact on student’s safety and education, the

School should be a place of peace and opportunity, but gaps in the system of gun control threatens the safety of faculty and students. School shootings have killed a total of 297 lives, young and old (Slate Magazine). Gun control has been a continuous nationwide debate for many years. It seems that no one wants to take a stance against guns unless they are personally affected. In order to take control of the matter and prevent more incidents from continuing schools need to change. To achieve a safe environment in schools need to educate faculty, safe and students, heighten security, and assess mental health issues.

The documentary, “Bowling for Columbine”, produced and written by controversial director Michael Moore examines the culture of guns and its violent nature in the United States in order to gain insight into how massacres like the Columbine High School shooting incident was possible. The Columbine High gun massacre occurred in the small town of Littleton on the 20th of April, 1999 when students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 classmates and a teacher. The two fired over 900 bullets and injured dozens. Revolving around this incident, Moore ventures throughout the country as well as Canada to understand why the United States has an enormously higher rate of gun related homicides compared to any other industrialized

Gun violence is the sign of a far greater universal problem in America today. Violence and gun violence specifically, is surrounded within, and spread all through every part of our society. All the reasons remain intimately related to the actual solution, which can only be a general solution one by treating it as one issue. The region that I live in is considered a peaceful part of Harvest, which I am particularly grateful about. I do not have to worry about gunfights in the roads of my community, nor maybe being helpless confronted by students with a gun at school. That, nevertheless, does not mean that my community is impermeable to gun violence. Huntsville has seen its share of gun violence from the incident at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), where three people were murdered and three others injured on February 12, 2010. Throughout the course of a routine gathering of the biology department attended by about 12 people, professor Amy Bishop stood up and began shooting those next to her with a 9-millimeter handgun (Hall 2010)

Gun control is an extremely controversial issue in the United States, and the debates around this topic has started many decades ago. According to the article “Gun Rights vs. Gun control” by Brianna Gurciullo, these debates are fueled by the people who defend the gun rights and the people who advocate in favor of gun control. It has been difficult to prove that gun ownership is directly related to an increase in violence due to the fact that researches tend to disagree on the impact of gun ownership in the American society. These debates tend to be brought to the spotlight whenever there is a mass shooting in the United States, which according to Abbey Oldham, who is a reporter from the PBS News Hour, happens quite frequently. However, organizations, such as the National Rifle Association (NRA), defend that the laws for gun control violate the Second Amendment of the constitution, which states “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” stated Gurciullo. Due to the distinct interpretations of the constitution and the difficulty to agree on the best approach to tackle the issue, this controversy seem to be almost unsolvable.

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.

In light of 2018’s school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where students have stepped forward to say enough is enough. Parkland survivors have rallied together with students across America to declare that no more children should die from gun violence. On March 14, 2018, a student-led walkout has held across schools for seventeen minutes in protest. A week later the National March for Our Lives was held in cities and students, teachers, parents, and those who’ve had enough rallied against gun violence. An image from the March For Our Lives Movement depicts two girls protesting against gun violence, and their faces challenge and compel viewers to do something and sympathize with the movement.