According to WHO, someone around the globe commits suicide every forty seconds. Amanda Todd and Tyler Clementi both committed suicide because of bullying and cyber bullying. Amanda Todd was born on November 27, 1996 in British Columbia, Canada, Tyler Clementi was born on December 19, 1991 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States.
Fort Hood Shooting On November 5, 2009 in the Fort Hood army base a gunman opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Center, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others. The alleged gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, was shot by civilian police officers and was seriously injured. Following the incident, Hasan was hospitalized, initially on a ventilator, under heavy guard. According to eyewitnesses he opened fire with two handguns at soldiers processing through cubicles in the center and on a crowd gathered 30 minutes before a scheduled college graduation ceremony in a nearby theater. At the start of the attack, Hasan reportedly jumped up on a desk and shouted "Allahu Akbar!"
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.
A 20-year-old college student had killed a woman at his Ladera Ranch home and had set out on a killing spree that stretched through the heart of Orange County. He had killed a businessman and stole his BMW. A few minutes later, he killed a plumber and took a work truck. He shot randomly at the morning commuters on the 55 Freeway, which had hit at least three cars. The authorities were surprised at the "senseless violence," which had spanned about 25 miles.
Calley ordered everyone to be executed. It took 3 days to bury the bodies. It only came to light when an American soldier Paul Meadlo admitted killing 10-15 women and children at My Lai. It led to an investigation which destroyed the American militaries reputation. Student activism had started to develop in the 1950s.
We have a news come up everyday such as two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and injured other 21 student at Columbine High School massacre, on Tuesday, April 20, 1999(wilipedia) . In the article, Kunerth cites a girl name Lawren McCord, 13 years old, "I'm afraid I'll die a slow
[iii] They also wounded twenty-three (23) other students before killing themselves. [iv]
January 17, 1989 Patrick Edward Purdy walked into Stockton schoolyard and open fire with a semi-automatic rifle killing five children and wounding one teacher and 29 other children. March 24, 1998 Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to school near Jonesboro, Arkansas where they pulled a fire alarm and begin shooting everyone else as they exited the school. They killed four students and one teacher and injured nine others. These and many other random shootings have not stopped. Innocent people are not being protected therefore are dying because there is no control over firearms.
On December 14, 2012 a man named Adam Lanza went into an elementary school in Newtown Connecticut and killed twenty six people. The fact that twenty of them were children makes me sick to my stomach. Since the Newtown tragedy, over three thousand people have died because of gun violence. And the laws that America has today, does not help the gun violence that we have in this country. How would you feel if your son or daughter was shot and killed at school?
There are many stories of people who have defended themselves with the use of guns. There was a particular family of six who had been stalked for fifteen years by an individual. That individual kicked in the back door of the family’s residence and attempted to kill them after he had killed four others that same night. The man who lived in the residence was able to hit the attacker in the chest with one round which detoured him from continuing the act. If this man had not of had that firearm when he did him his wife and his four children would have been slaughtered that night.