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School Shootings Plague America
Who's to Blame?
JD Casto
Issue date: 11/6/06 Section: Life & Times
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The Second Amendment States that, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." This meaning that the people of the United States have the right or privilege to keep and bear firearms. The Second Amendment is highly debated as to its context and application in the modern world. As many suggest, the Bill of Rights was a document laying a foundation for our government, a blueprint that was open for interpretation over the years.
School shootings seemed to flair during the past two months, starting with a college shooting in Montreal. Since then, a principal was fatally shot, two shootings were foiled, and five young Amish girls were killed by their milkman. There are no words that can be placed in this article to explain how upset and enraged everyone should be and probably already are.
Since the Columbine shooting on April 20, 1999 many people have debated The Second Amendment, and school bullying. What most don't look at are the parents. They can also be at fault as everyone else. Five years after the Columbine shooting, the FBI understood why they did it - fame and glory, a perverted version of the American Dream. They wanted to perform a massacre, not just a school shooting. If their bombs would have gone off, they would have achieved their massacre, and also earned their spot in everyone's textbooks.
What can be done to prevent school shootings? Some would say, be kind to everyone. Some have gone as far as to say, "Put prayer back in schools like it used to be before all of this violence. When Jesus Christ is asked to leave our system, evil will take over"(Bruce Rogers, Acworth, Georgia). But really, we can do little to change hate-filled people. Some have suggested that schools be treated the same way as airports. Would this accomplish anything besides wasting a school's budget? No.
The hardest thing about being prepared for a school shootings is that one cannot profile a school shooter. The FBI came up with a list of common traits, such as an obsession with violence. The problem though is that most Americans enjoy violence, not necessarily obsessed, but we do enjoy violence. All one has to do is look at the Hollywood Box Office records.
School shootings seemed to flair during the past two months, starting with a college shooting in Montreal. Since then, a principal was fatally shot, two shootings were foiled, and five young Amish girls were killed by their milkman. There are no words that can be placed in this article to explain how upset and enraged everyone should be and probably already are.
Since the Columbine shooting on April 20, 1999 many people have debated The Second Amendment, and school bullying. What most don't look at are the parents. They can also be at fault as everyone else. Five years after the Columbine shooting, the FBI understood why they did it - fame and glory, a perverted version of the American Dream. They wanted to perform a massacre, not just a school shooting. If their bombs would have gone off, they would have achieved their massacre, and also earned their spot in everyone's textbooks.
What can be done to prevent school shootings? Some would say, be kind to everyone. Some have gone as far as to say, "Put prayer back in schools like it used to be before all of this violence. When Jesus Christ is asked to leave our system, evil will take over"(Bruce Rogers, Acworth, Georgia). But really, we can do little to change hate-filled people. Some have suggested that schools be treated the same way as airports. Would this accomplish anything besides wasting a school's budget? No.
The hardest thing about being prepared for a school shootings is that one cannot profile a school shooter. The FBI came up with a list of common traits, such as an obsession with violence. The problem though is that most Americans enjoy violence, not necessarily obsessed, but we do enjoy violence. All one has to do is look at the Hollywood Box Office records.
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