Many massacres dealing with gun violence, namely the Sandy Hook massacre, have occurred in the history of the United States. A lot of these gunman attacks have taken place in a variety of schools over the years. These attacks left teachers and students alert and aware of their surroundings in the classrooms at school. For the safety of these students in the schools of America, lockdown drills are made necessary. The Sandy Hook shooting was a tragic event which lied to necessary reactions and measures
against a person who has a plan of causing a huge massacre on your students or your fellow co-workers inside the workplace. In 1999 Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado experienced a tragedy that with stands in the history of school shootings. How would you feel if you were the parent of which was just a normal school day dropping off your child to school not knowing that you will never get to see them again or have that awesome after school conversation. Many feel as though if we were to
approximately 74 school shootings in the last eighteen months. The real question we should be asking ourselves is why does this keep happening? Why do the teens that commit the shootings feel so hateful towards their peers? Why do they take innocent lives and at times, their own? When students went to school on April 20 of 1999, they did not think of it any differently than any other day. However, for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold they decided to commit one of the most severe and well-known school shootings
special agent in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, states,”It turns a killer into a killing machine.” He then adds, alluding to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, “Maybe 3 kids get killed instead of 20.” This suggests that having high-capacity magazines can turn a shooting into a massacre. Thus, more gun control laws must be enacted in America to prevent mass shootings from occuring by strengthening background checks on
Sandy Hook Elementary and Columbine High School are the locations of two of the most deadly and infamous school shootings in the United States. The Columbine High School Massacre, as the public calls it, took place on April 20, 1999. The perpetrators were two high school seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who shot and killed more than twelve students and one teacher. Twenty-one additional people were severely injured (Lamb). The Sandy Hook Massacre occurred on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut
There are many way to keep students safe in schools but none are better than having armed security guards. Guards in schools provide a sign of safety for those that attend and for their parents. There are enough pressures involved with education and there is no reason not to eliminate the threat of security risk. This is in addition to the fact that employing armed guards in schools will create jobs across the country and assist in combating unemployment. School atrocities have been a growing epidemic
students. School shooters tend to mention their plans to others; thus, giving an opportunity for others to intervene in their plans. Although these murderers do speak up, they are not taken seriously. They normally, fail to obtain the attention needed because they have spoken of those “crazy” things beforehand but never followed through. Not until it is far too late that they actually receive the attention necessary for their “crazy talk.” School shootings normally occur in rural schools rather than
that killed 27 people, including the gunman which was killed in less than five minutes, and 20 of them schoolchildren ages 6 to 7. This happened in Sandy Hook Elementary School where Adam Lanza fired one bullet roughly every two seconds. It was, however, not the only case that brings gun control as a topic of debate. Many other shootings and massacre have brought people to vote for a stricter gun law. Even though that’s the case, there are also Americans who support the right-to-carry as what the
A girl under the name of ‘’Jane Doe’’ was a sixteen year old sophomore who was excited to attend the school dance that night. Like any other girl he got her hair done and picked out her favorite dress for the evening. While she was there having a good time a group of men aged fifteen to thirty invited her to go drink with them on the football field. She
parents in a big yellow house that had red couches, a wine shelf, a glass table and a flat screen television in Oluti, Lagos, Nigeria. My parents worked hard to provide anything needed to send me to an expensive private school, Prime Montessori School. Break times made my school a happy place even when my naughtiness received attention from the teacher and principal. My parents disciplined me for every complaint received. I lived with my grandparents from the age of seven after my parents left