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    It is a lot of school shooting that has been happing from generations to generation. School shooting happen across the world, but it mainly happing in the United States of America. We as teacher and parents never know why students kill or shoot themselves and others in the school. This essay will talk about reason why students do these crazy school shootings and how we can create better schooling for our future children, so they will not go on a ram page and kill innocent people. The book I will

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    School shootings are something that we as American have unfortunately become numb to. Every time another one occurs, we all pause and think about how terrible it is that someone would get to the point mentally where they would open fire on students, and then we move on. Perhaps no school shooting shook the world quite as much as the Kent State shooting did, when the National Guard, thus the government itself, opened fire and killed four college students. In the wake of this tragedy, Neil Young came

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    The Dangers of School Shootings     Teens these days suffer through a lot sometimes and this leads to them doing dangerous things like shooting up schools. School shootings have affected the school's attendance and test scores around where past shootings have happened(215 School Shootings in America Since 2013). They could happen at any time and at any school depending on if kids bring their gun(s) to school or not. School shootings are highly dangerous because of the way that they are increasing

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    School Shootings

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    disasters to hear or learn about consist of the disasters in which a school has been involved. With the increasing in security at schools to prevent fatal disasters, many questions have started to rise with concerns about whether or not if the amount of security necessary. In other words, does the amount of security in schools help prevent more disasters, or does the opposition out way the deposition? The amount of security in schools does impact the prevention of fatal disasters. To fully understand

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    shrapnel rained down on the pavement.” That’s what it feels like to be in one of the many school shootings that are going around in America. Although they are rare, when they do occur, the shock society and create panic. It’s common that after every shooting people start asking the same questions. How could someone walk into a school and shoot their fellow classmates and teachers? Did they show signs before the shooting? How can we stop this tragic cause?

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    you ever wondered why a school shooter pulls the trigger? Crime is a very serious problem in the United States. School shootings, is a type of crime that is getting more dangerous as the years go on. School shooters are shaped by their environment due to, interactions at school, in the community, and at home. Interactions at school There are many problems at school that could lead to a school shooting. For example, bullying, arguments, disliking people that are at the school, having another person

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    School violence is the act that threatens and alters the school environment with harmful consequences on students and educators’ wellbeing and impact students in a negative way (Reininghaus, Castro, & Frisancho, 2013). It is obvious now than ever that we lives in a world where the safety and security of individuals are in question, especially that of school students where safety against school shootings remain everyone’s major concern. The terror of Virginia Tech mass murder in 2007 and Sandy Hook

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    Mass Shooting In Schools

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    Mass shootings have become one of the most fearful events that could happen in elementary schools, high schools, and College campuses. These violent actions committed by a number of individuals have happened for many years and will continue happening unless prevented. Individuals like James Holmes opened fire in a Colorado movie theater, killing twelve individuals and injuring twenty, John Sawahri shot five students dead in Santa Monica College also injuring four individuals. However Eric Harris

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    Rampage: Social Roots of School Shootings The first chapter I read was number 7, Why Kids Don’t Tell. This chapter focused on the reason why kids don’t tell people of authority when they hear of something that is “Suppose to happen”. For the 3 shootings focused on in the chapter, there were multiple people for each shooting that heard the shooters make threats of violence. The main question then is why didn’t anybody report what he or she heard? There were multiple reasons that all make logical

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    Flooding every major media outlet making headlines across the country are school shootings, it shook the nation when twenty, first graders and six adults were killed by Adam Lanza, a twenty year old man who shot his mother in the head before taking her car and driving to Sandy Hook Elementary. Other school shooting have occurred since then and it brought up the issue of gun control, some politicians even supported the idea of giving teachers guns to have in the classroom. I am against allowing teachers

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