Informative Essay On School Shootings

On April 20, 1999, two disturbed teenage boys Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris began a killing rampage at Columbine High School in the suburban town of Littleton, Colorado. This was considered one of the worst school shootings to occur at that time. In the morning of April 20, before noon, the two juveniles had killed 13 people to include 12 students and 1 teacher; they also wounded another 23 people before turning the guns on themselves. This event would change the theories as to why school shootings would occur. (History)

In his article, “Thresholds of violence” by Malcolm Gladwell, has effectively proven that the school shootings changed and they’ve became ritualized. From an incident, a group of three officers had arrived to the unit’s door step, and a young man stood in the center. The man became extremely defensive when one of the officers had to pat LaDue down. The officer had over heard that LaDue was making bombs in the storage locker, then had found a SKS assault rifle with sixty rounds of ammunition, a Beretta 9-mm, hand gun, including three ready-made explosive devices hidden in his bedroom. “There are far more things out in that unit than meet the eye” (Gladwell 2), exampling how there’s not only going to be a specific amount of bombs that would have

Since 2013, 185 school shootings have occurred in the United States of America, according to the article "The Long, Shameful List of School Shootings in America." This averages to about one every week. School shootings have been a problem in the United States since 1853 which is when one of the first documented shootings with a student undertaking the shooting happened. Chris Glavin in his article “History of School Shootings in the United States” exclaims, “[On] November 2, 1853 [in] Louisville, Kentucky, a student, Matthew Ward, bought a self-cocking pistol in the morning, went to school and killed Schoolmaster Mr. Butler for excessively punishing his brother the day before.”

The morning of December 14, 2012 would not be a typical one of the inhabitants of Newtown, a small tight-knit town in Fairfield County, Connecticut. At approximately 9:30 AM, shortly after the beginning of the school day, Adam Lanza, a deranged, violent man, armed with a rifle, two hand guns, a shotgun, and a plethora of extra ammunition, forcefully entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and commenced a shooting rampage that would eventually take the lives of twenty innocent first graders, along with six faculty members who heroically sacrificed their lives protecting their students. This heart wrenching tragedy sent a Shockwave throughout America, as people were struggling to determine what they could do to prevent something so horrific from

On February 14, 2018, America was struck with another merciless school shooting. A 19 year-old Nikolas Cruz gunned down his former (was expelled at the time of shooting) high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. There were 17 victims that will forever be in the hearts of their fellow classmates. Nikolas later after the shooting blended into the crowd, and then went to a subway and ordered a drink. Now right in that very moment, there is definitely something wrong with the security system in the high school. It was reported that their surveillance system was actually 20min behind real time. This allowed Nikolas to slip into the crowd. Another problem was that officers were stationed at the building, so where were they during the school shooting? Well I can tell you that an officer named Scot Peterson locked up at the West entrance of the school, and remained outside while he SHOULD of went into the building, confronted the gunman, then killed the gunman.

“Since 2013 there has been an average of one school shooting a week in the U.S., and 18 since the beginning of this year.This is a horrific thing that is getting out of control in the U.S. When a gunman killed 20 first graders and six adults with an assault rifle at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, it rattled Newtown, Conn., and reverberated across the world. Since then, there have been at least 239 school shootings nationwide. In those episodes, 438 people were shot, 138 of whom were killed.it is time we bring awareness to this situation. There are many different opinions on this subject.” There are varying views on this issue. My view is, if select teachers had guns in this school. You wouldn’t know which teachers had the guns. The

The school shooting at Columbine high school was one of the bloodiest and atrocious school shootings in United States history. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris devised a plan to inflict as much terror as possible in their school as well as the rest of the world. Even though their original plan of detonating propane bombs in the school cafeteria failed, these two improvised and still proceeded with the massacre. Columbine was never about killing mankind; Columbine was a quest to ensure both killers would reach widespread notoriety.

When people think about firearms, they usually associate it with the recent mass shootings and countless homicides that have occurred across the U.S.. For example, the shootings in Sandy Brook, Las Vegas, Dallas, Orlando, California, Colorado Springs, Oregon, Tennessee, South Carolina, Washington, and etc. These are just 10 out of the 146 horrific mass shootings that have occurred between 1967 and 2017. Despite the U.S. having many gun policies and laws, compared to Japan’s approach with guns they are very behind.

Nikki Giovanni has voice that is not afraid to speak what is on her mind. She strives to foster that same confidence in students and listeners through her educational practices and poems. Her methods and ideals are similar to ideas of revolutionizing the education system proposed by the influential educator Paulo Freire. Her powerhouse messages of encouragement and unorthodox learning have influenced the way I see the world around me.

Columbine by Dave Cullen analyzes the use of journals and specific language to advance the idea that the massacre that happened on April 20, 1999 was the planned and executed by two boys with horrific intentions. Cullen writes with the intention to share the the somber story, while allowing the readers to understand Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's mental status and prove how the killers felt rather leaving room for assumptions.

On February 14, 2018, a nineteen year old male walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15 rifle. The shooter killed 17 students, dropped his gun, and then disguised himself as a student and ran out with them. The shooter was eventually taken into custody. This shooter has done more to separate this country than ISIS ever could have imagined. In the days to come after this shooting, the social media keyboard warriors have gone to war. Quoting statistics, postings meme, and everyone coming up with their short quick answer to unequivocally answer this problem. The problem is, everyone is being incredibly short minded. Does anyone really think that one decision, one law change, one mental health change is going to fix

Do you feel like every time you turn on the news there is always something going on at schools? Whether it be school shootings or kids fighting. What if there was a way to fix all these problems? Having an armed guard could be a solution. By October 10, 2015 there had been 52 school shootings in 2015 alone. Schools would be much safer if there was an armed guard patrolling because the guard would be watching constantly, it would prevent crime from happening inside the school, and crime happening at school from outside the school.

Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Northern Illinois University, Oikos University and Umpqua Community College. Most, if not all of these names are probably all to familiar to you, and unfortunately it is not for their academic successes or athletic teams. These schools have been the sight of mass killings by Active Shooters over the past decade. Ranging from elementary schools to colleges, these school shootings are responsible for a total of 82 deaths and 39 wounded.

On the 14th of February, it was a normal day. Many kids were smiling, laughing, until it happened. At Stoneman Douglas, a school in Parkland, gunshots were heard all around. A mass shooting had happened, killing 17 people in the process. Mass shootings are large problems in the world, shootings have many fatalities, people are afraid to go to schools, but there are multiple solutions like the one Australia took.

Schools aren’t safe enough for kids. On April 20th, 1999, there was a school shooting at Columbine High School. 13 people died, 12 students and 1 teacher (CNN). That was because they didn’t have any safety procedures to follow. They all went under tables. Some schools are still like that, but a good example of a useful procedure is Jewett Middle School outside of Tampa, Florida. There were daily night events for the teachers to train them how to take down an armed person (FOX NEWS). But that is just one school. Preparing for a code red lockdown, students need to know what to do, teachers need to get training, and some schools need to get different procedures in order for everybody to be safe.