In today's society it's not drugs and alcohol at school were worried about anymore, It's guns. Gun violence and school shootings have been all over the news in 2018. The question everyone keeps asking themselves, is why? A few things that play a factor in most of these school shootings are the shooters home and school life, their easy access to the weapon, and their overall wellbeing as a whole. One key factor in almost all of these school shootings are these students home and school lives. At
With the recent history of gun violence on college campuses, questions have been raised on how incidents like these can best be prevented. One proposed solution is allowing firearms to be carried on campuses. With many states passing the open carry law, the topic of guns on campus has become a major issue; however, there are many reasons to why allowing guns to be carried on campus would not help prevent situations like these. A college campus is a place where individuals of different maturity levels
drew and fired his gun across the chest of his partner, through the window, and struck Justine in the abdomen. After 20 minutes of frantic CPR, Justine Ruszczyk suffered a painful death from a bullet wound to her stomach. In 2016, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 64 cops were shot dead. Of those 21 were shot dead in deliberate ambushes. Each time an American officer goes on patrol, they convey the knowledge that there are roughly 265 million guns in America, approximately
As a child growing up, I've witnessed violence in my neighborhood and schools. I have known people who have died because of gun violence or people who made the wrong decisions and went to prison. I had witnessed a friend of mine shot and killed in June 2008. One day a group of friends and I were sitting on my step talking, and a guy rode towards us on a bike and said: “what’s up.” He continued to travel in the opposite direction of us towards the corner of my block until I heard a loud noise which
There have been a lot of shootings and there has to come a day where everything has to stop gun violence. Recently there has been a shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was recently a mass shooting on October 1, 2017. At about 10:08 p.m. a country concert was active in Las Vegas. Everybody was enjoying their day and the music, they were having so much fun but little did they know what was about to happen. A shooter came out in front of 22,000 people from the 33rd floor. Killing at least 59 people
that average day at Columbine High School (Merino, 2015). The unfortunate tragedy of mass shootings is a threat that is not going away; therefore, America has a strong need for a solution to this issue. The protection of public schools against gun violence is contingent upon changing policies. Many precautions are currently set in place to try and solve this problem. Sadly, little has proven to be effective. All school shootings are not particularly large; however, they are equally as devastating
Don’t Pull the Trigger on Gun control Have you ever wondered why the United States always seems to have mass shootings in the news? Well, this is why gun control should be mandated in the America. Gun control is a debate fueled by the recent shootings of Colombine, Sandy Hook, Marysville Pilchuck, and the recent shooting at a social center. Gun control is a proposal to ban or further restrict gun laws, gun control has been put in place in many other countries such as Canada, The United Kingdom, Australia
Gun violence in America is the one of the worst epidemics in the world right now and needs to be solved. Over four hundred students have been killed while in school during school shootings ever since the Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012. That is nearly one entire elementary school. This statistic alone should have prompted for major changes, however, nothing has been done. After the Parkland school shooting, millions of children around the U.S. have now created movements by themselves such as walkouts
friends with any neighbors in our building. I always blamed my parents for the isolation that I was experiencing, however, I soon appreciated my mother’s tough attitude because I discovered that we lived in the neighborhood that became the source of violence for almost all Mission Hill
Gun Control, A Real Solution to Gun Violence? Analysis of the Film Bowling for Columbine One important issue that has raised over the past two decades is the gun control debate, whether gun control is a real solution to decrease the violence in the country or not. While some groups defend that restricting the laws regarding to gun possession, will decrease the statistics of gun murders in the country, other groups pro-gun rights not only sustain these measures will not make any significant change