ipl-logo

Mass Shooting Tragedy

80 Words1 Page

At this time, everybody may recognize the deadliest tragedy in the world happened on October 1st, 2017. It was Las Vegas mass shooting, a killing of more than 50 people and hurting more than 500 victims; however, it is not the first mass shooting in the USA. Owning a gun and having a stress are the reasons of the events. By the way, the means for preventing the shooting tragedies is supporting harder legal gun possession and decreasing competitive

Show More
Related

  • Sandy Hook Shooting

    215 Words  | 1 Pages

    The Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting was one that shocked the nation and opened the eyes of Americans everywhere. This horrible event opened up our eyes to the fact that someone could easily come into a school and raise havoc with ease. This man, Adam Lanza, had no affiliation with Sandy Hook or any one inside it but still decided to take the lives of 20 children and 6 adults before taking his own. In the statements made by Joe Scarborough from his show “Morning Joe”, he says “Every American must know from this day forward that nothing can be the same again.” This is a very powerful statement because it brings up an important point.

    Read More

  • The Fear We Live With By Jeva Lange

    1999 Words  | 8 Pages

    Mass shootings In the article, “The Fear We Live With” by Jeva Lange (2018) she explains how mass shootings have affected many lives in the United States. She points out that people are very afraid of how the shootings are happening too frequently and America does not care to do anything about it. Mass shootings happen too much in the world and there is not one way to fix them.

    Read More

  • Rampage School Shootings

    203 Words  | 1 Pages

    Rampage school shootings are happening in rural and suburban areas, young male adolescents are the ones turning to violence to show “becoming a man” (124). The reason is to show that they are masculine and that they aren’t going to be put down or made fun of, for example being bullied is something that throws them over the edge. Gender discrimination is always present, because it is said that men can separate the emotions, while women can’t; that’s why they aren’t right for some jobs. According to Barak, 51 percent of the population are “women”, yet they are still the minority, because it is said that they won’t try to work long hours, instead they want to have a family and take care of them (126). Women have a higher education and yet are

    Read More

  • Mass Shooting Research Paper

    405 Words  | 2 Pages

    Mass shootings are a horrific event prevalent in our society for many years. On July 18, 1984, James Huberty fires with his long-barreled Uzi at a McDonald’s San Ysidro, California, killing twenty-one adults and children. Another gunman, George Hennard, fires in a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, killing a total of twenty-three people on On October 16, 1991. A different mass murderer, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots thirty-two students and faculty members dead at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia on April 16, 2007. Additionally, Adam Lanza opens fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut killing twenty students aging from six to seven, and six staff on December 14, 2012.

    Read More

  • How To Persuasive Essay On Mass Shootings

    1545 Words  | 7 Pages

    It is a grim matter to those, who walk through this great nation, or flick through the news channels, when they see the statistics, and the headlines of shootings and homicides committed against innocent and defenseless peoples. Now americans everywhere, instead of being able to live their life with a peace of mind, are forced to live with the anxiety and fear that their loved ones will not home from mundane activities such as school, the movies, or even church. These fears aren’t unfounded either. The FBI defines a mass shooting as a public attack in which three or more people are shot, and last year in the USA there were over 427 mass shootings.

    Read More

  • Mass Shootings In America

    1177 Words  | 5 Pages

    In recent years, the American public has been continually plagued by mass shootings; events where an individual, or individuals, with access to firearms, open fire on people, committing seemingly nonsensical acts of violence. Compared to other developed countries the United States holds the highest rates of gun violence and mass shootings, both of which are complex issue that affects American regardless of socioeconomic status. Although the definition of a mass shooting varies depending on the organization, the most widely recognized definition is one used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); as defined by FBI a mass shooting is an incident where at least four persons are killed or injured with a firearm in a random act with little

    Read More

  • Mass Shooting In Modern American History

    125 Words  | 1 Pages

    As of now in 2017 the world is different and more complex. Massacres and terrorists attack rome many cities and people are now fearful of the lives. As of recently, one of the biggest American massacres has happened according to USAToday,”With at least 59 dead and with about 400 injured, the incident is the worst mass shooting in modern American history. The prior mass shooting with the highest death toll was an attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in June 2016 in which 49 people were killed and 58 injured.” But back in 2000, criminal treaty were just being established and the Immigration and Naturalization Service was protecting the jailed immigrants instead of trying to throw them out.

    Read More

  • High School Shooting

    1513 Words  | 7 Pages

    Introduction In our society today, there is suffering to the left, right, up, and down. There is suffering as we go to school every morning and go to sleep every night. With all of this suffering, who do we go to, and who do we blame? Many may look to political theologians such as Moltmann and Soelle who believe in the symbol of the cross and the suffering God.

    Read More

  • Persuasive Essay: The Banning Of Assault Weapons

    902 Words  | 4 Pages

    This resulted in an increase by 183% of shootings and by 239% of deaths by guns. Obviously, this is a problem, that both puts people’s lives at risk and makes some live in fear. First, the number of shootings is completely intolerable. Many innocent people die due to gun shootings.

    Read More

  • Mass Shooting Theory

    694 Words  | 3 Pages

    “The U.S. ranks first in gun ownership per capita, with roughly 270 million firearms, or 89 firearms per 100 residents” (Palazzolo & Flynn). Even though most of the firearms that are bought are used for hunting animals, some are used for killing people. In 2015, “no more than eight days this year have passed without a mass shooting” (Speiser). This seems like a very bad statistic as that is many people's lives that are getting snuffed out. In this research paper, there will be a literature review about mass shootings, as well as a theory that fits mass shootings, and how this theory applies to mass shootings.

    Read More

  • Mass School Shootings In Schools

    1213 Words  | 5 Pages

    School shootings are an increasing issue in the United States, considering there have been over eighteen in 2018. So why don’t you hand everyone on U.S. soil military guns? Even psychotic individuals who take pleasure in murdering innocent children. School districts need to promote the idea of carrying military guns to your teachers to serve and protect your children; to increase the probability of teachers with AR-15’s, you must offer rewards. Taking this action of emphasizing the importance of concealing AR-15’s amongst faculty not only benefits the school safety but you as an impressionable-adolescent student: offering lethal weapons, background knowledge, and experience to all students during school will inherently increase safety.

    Read More

  • Argumentative Essay: Can Guns Die?

    397 Words  | 2 Pages

    In conclusions, the numbers of casualties provided in previous paragraphs do not include the painful physical and emotional burdens gun-related incidents leave on those who are survive, wounded, the family who lose their sons or daughters, the school and Colleges who lose or support injured colleagues. With guns, the result is slow just as same as smoking cigarette, because it does not kill immediately, but it kills. Similarly, human race might not become extinct immediately. but slowly with all the creation of dangerous nuclear bomb, guns, ammunition and firearms; it is slowly killing and causing public health crisis. Based on Annals of Internal Medicine, all things equal, where there are higher levels of gun ownership and weaker gun laws,

    Read More

  • Argumentative Essay: America Is Number One?

    801 Words  | 4 Pages

    Turns out we are number one at something; the United States is number one in mass shootings compare to the rest of the developed world. Go USA right? We seem to be the only developed country that can’t pass legislation to stop these mass shootings. Even though passing legislation that could limit mass shootings seems like a no brainer, it is a large political issue. With special interest groups such as the NRA dumping money into politicians, passing legislation can be hard.

    Read More

  • Mass Shooting In Schools

    1021 Words  | 5 Pages

    It was 8:06 am on October 1, 1997 at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi. Students were standing around talking to their friends, planning the day’s events when a Luke Woodham, wearing a long trench coat to hide his weapon. Shots rang out in the common area of the high school where he wounded 7 and killed 2 teenagers. This marked the first of many tragic school shooting in America. The reasons for mass shooting is very important.

    Read More

  • Why Guns Should Be Banned Essay

    872 Words  | 4 Pages

    The number of incidents of gun violence last year in the United States was about 60,000. In recent years, the number of mass shooting has risen to about one mass shooting per day in the United States. The country is divided with some wanting to reevaluate our gun control laws and either ban or add additional regulations to the purchase of guns. Others say it is our right for Americans to own guns and something the founding fathers considered important to put in the Bill of Rights. The number of firearm sales has risen with the number of mass shooting many Americans question if banning guns or certain guns could help decrease the number of gun violence deaths.

    Read More

More about Mass Shooting Tragedy

Open Document