The last thing high school kids think about while they are getting ready in the morning is will there be a shooting in school today? No one expects these things to happen but sometimes they do. Once and awhile schools can get lucky, they can stop the shooting before it happens but for others it is too late. Unfortunately, it was too late for Sterling High school in Jodi Picoult’s 19 Minutes, as well as Columbine High School on Tuesday April 20th 1999. The shootings between the schools were similar in many ways, especially the motives that drove the students to commit the crime “That could never happen in my school.” This is one of the first thoughts that goes through a student’s mind when they hear about a school shooting.
On February 27, 2012 in Chardon, Ohio, “Thomas "T. J." Lane, 17, took a Rugger MK III .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun and a knife to Chardon High School and fired ten shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Three students died in the attack; a 16-year-old boy died immediately, and two other male students died from their wounds the following day. Three other students were injured.
don’t you think a couple of minutes you’d spend on a line for metal detecting may save the life of another school mate or even yourself? Sometimes if you really think about it patience is the border between life and death. Have you noticed that the percentage of school shootings have decreased mightily over the years? They have but that does not mean it is not prone to happen again. One thing that I have read in the Daily News was that school shootings are the number one cause of student deaths in the United States and this is very sad.
We have had a lot of recent school shootings so far this school year and the year isn’t even over yet. As a matter of fact, the semester isn’t even over yet. I don’t believe that we should let teachers carry weapons but we should have more school resources officers on hand in the school. Dr. Patrick Johnston once wrote in an October 8, 2006 article for the website, NewsWithViews.com, and he wrote, “A drifter walks off the street into a Colorado public school and kidnaps a half dozen girls before sexually molesting then shooting one of them. Three Wisconsin teenagers are taken into custody for plotting a bomb attack on their school.
In April of 2007 a mass murder took place on the VA Tech campus in Blacksburg, VA, where thirty-three people were killed and fifteen others were wounded. More recently in December of 2012 twenty children between the ages of 5 and 10 along with six staff members were killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. These are among the deadliest shootings that have taken place in our learning institutions in U.S. history. What measures are being taken to prevent this from happening again? Among the many solutions that were advocated, the arming of school teachers has been suggested.
Summary of The Knife in the Book Bag In his magazine article “The Knife in the Book Bag “ Jon D. Hull focus on parents sometimes reamagine what would have happen if a gun or knife would be drawn in a school in their community but having a imagine is sometimes not needed when there are over 100,000 students everyday that carry a gun to class. The author supports the main idea by using statistics of the number of threats that are made towards teachers and actual assaults. The article gives examples of the crimes. The main example occurred in a middle school in Lorain, Ohio. A 13 year old girl honor student and a 12 year old coconspirator girl brought a knife to school to assault an English teacher that reprimanded the 13 year old girl.
Columbine High School Shooting Kaplan University CJ266-03 Deviance and Violence April 23, 2013 On April 20, 1999, nearly fourteen years ago, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold took the lives of thirteen people and injuring more than twenty others, before taking their own lives, by committing suicide at the Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. There were a lot of speculations in this case as opposed to facts. What their reasons were for doing what they did will always remain a mystery that only one can speculate what they think the reasons were. We all know that these two young men took the lives of thirteen people, injured more than twenty others, and then turned the guns on themselves committing suicide before this event came to a halt. Eric Harris was eighteen at the time, while Dylan Klebold was seventeen.
COLUMBINE REFLECTION On Tuesday, April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School and killed twelve students, one teacher, and then themselves. By committing such a hayness act these two individuals will be remembered forever. They are the blame for thousands of crisis intervention programs to be practiced and up to date. In this learner’s school there are code red, code blue and a shelter in place alerts . Code Red alert is set in place for the scenario of an armed intruder.
Anything Can Happen April 20, 1999 is a day that will forever live in infamy. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, walked into Columbine High School after a failed bomb attempt and shot and killed thirteen people while wounding more than twenty others before turning the gun on themselves. Eight years later, Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, opened fire on campus, leaving thirty-two people dead and several others injured. The most recently known and horrifying school shooting comes from Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty year old, Adam Lanza, walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and shot twenty- six people-- 20 students and six adults.
More than 3500 students were expelled from school for bringing or attempting to bring a gun to school. Now out of this number 43% of them were students in elementary school. Now statistics like this should make wonder a little how these students got access to a gun? Did they get the gun from a friend, their house, or did the buy from a pawn shop so they could join a gang? About 772,500 people in the US alone are involved *in gang* related activity* every year*.