If you were to ask teachers in the 1980’s if they thought training school faculty members gun safety and allow them to carry weapons it would be viewed as unimaginable. With the increase of school violence since 1999 more parents and faculty members have been asking how we should go about keeping our children safe in school. In the United States in 2012, there were ten school shootings leaving forty-one dead and thirteen wounded (Tyrel). Many schools in urban neighborhoods have installed metal detectors and do backpack checks prior to allowing anyone into the schools doors. Should we train and allow school faculty members to carry weapons to help keep our children safe or should we find other methods of early detections to stop these events from happening.
“ I worked seven day a week at one or both of my jobs,” Tamarla Owens tells Insight. The boy’s father, Dedric Owens, was serving time in the county jail when his son took tat loaded gun to school. Dedric reportedly said that when he heard there had been a school shooting he knew the shooter was his boy. The father had been on parole since December 1999 but had been rearrested the Sunday. Little Kayla was killed by her classmate in Flint, Michigan.
One of the most remembered and tragic school shootings that started this tragic trend around the country was the “Columbine School shooting” on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Columbine, located in Jefferson County in the State of Colorado. This was a highly planed and complex attack that involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks that were converted to bombs that were placed in the cafeteria, bombs rigged in cars, and 99 explosive devices. This attack was planned and carried by 2 students, Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold. Total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered during this attack that took place on the campus of the school. They also injured 27additional students during this attack.
Society has become such a cesspool for violence, it’s a no brainer that there is enforcement all over the place making sure that young adults obey the law. It is unfortunate that it had to get this far, but who is to blame for the violence in schools? In the past two decades, our collective attitude toward children and youth has undergone a profound change that’s reflected in the educational and criminal justice systems as well as in our daily discourse. (Fuentes, 610) The crackdown on youth has had no control over the subsequent events. Assured, you can lock a child up for violence and take him off the streets, but then that just causes a domino effect.
Ten others wounded in the attack. On April 26, 2002 in Erfurt, Germany, thirteen teachers, two students, and one policeman were killed, and ten were wounded by Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, at the Johann Gutenberg secondary school. Steinhaeuser then killed himself. On November 7, 2007, an 18-year-old man, who was a former student, shot seven people and wounded eleven others before taking his own life at a high school in southern Finland; this was the first known school shooting in Finland. Gun ownership is fairly common by European standards but shootings are rare (HighBeam Research,
ySahil Mehta Professor Guenther Sociology 001 October 29, 2010 School Safety Littleton, Colorado was a Midwestern city that went relatively unheard of until April 20, 1999. It was on that Tuesday morning that the small suburban town became the site of the worst high school shooting in American history. Armed with guns, knives, and a multitude of bombs, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked the halls of Columbine High School and embarked on a massacre. At the end of the day, twelve students, one teacher, and the two murderers were pronounced dead. Socialization is the process by which human beings must learn to pattern their behavior and adapt it to the society in which they live, which brings me to ask the question: How has the Columbine
It was found that the more adults watched violent clips, the less critical they became of the violence. In the case of school shootings in America, the violence has been horrific, but it has also been frequent, which causes desensitization to the violence. When the parents become desensitized to violence, it encourages this same desensitization in children, creating a cycle of
Students believe that high schools shooting are most cause of being pick on or being mistreated. The most commonly referred to school shooting is that at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, on Tuesday, April 20, 1999. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were the perpetrators. Like many instances of "school shootings," Harris and Klebold took their own lives before the end of the event. Also similar to many school shooters, Harris and Klebold were found to be victims of bullying.
FOURTH AMENDMENT SEARCH AND SEIZURE [pic] SCHOOL SAFETY LAW Edmund Zigmund Senior Legal Instructor United States Department of Homeland Security Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Glynco, GA 31524 Edmund.Zigmund@dhs.gov (912) 280-5447 INTRODUCTION Drugs, weapons and violence have infiltrated our nation’s schools. Between 1996 and 2003, twenty-six (26) school shootings occurred in the United States. [i] On April 20, 1999, the nation’s deadliest school shooting occurred at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado. [ii] Students Eric Harris, age 18 and Dylan Klebold, age 17, killed twelve (12) fellow students and a teacher. [iii] They also wounded twenty-three (23) other students before killing themselves.
The number of school shootings has increased significantly. Last year on April 16th the most deadly school shooting in U.S. history occurred. In this brutal massacre at Virginia Tech, 32 students were murdered and several more were wounded. To combat this growing epidemic, schools carry out repeated locker checks. In the second place, locker checks keep students healthy.