School Shootings - Failures of Welfare Society

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Schools are no longer a safer environment for teenagers and children in today’s society. Every year, many young lives are taken away due to school shootings. School shootings are widespread issue that seek attention because of their dramatic and frighten nature. These shootings results teenagers who have been harassed or bullied into depression come back with the guns to get revenge. However, School shootings are becoming more and more of an everyday incident around the world.

School shooting is an event that is committed by a student with gun violence at a school campus or other institutions. This is becoming a very common and a serious issue around the world, especially in the United States school violence rates are extremely high as students carry guns, knives and other weapons.“Nationally, less than 1% of all gun deaths involve self-defense; the rest are homicides, suicides and accidents. In a study of 23 high-income countries, the U.S. had 80% of the gun deaths, along with a gun homicide rate nearly 20 times higher than the rest of the sample” (Grunwald/Newton-small).

Why school shootings? Is it revenge, hatred or anger issues? What drives these people to perform these violent acts? These shootings are responsible for the violence as it has many negative factors that result in school shootings like aggressive behavior, bullies, depression emotional disorder and so on. Every incident is occurred not only by the pain and the law violation, but also by the questions about guns and mental illness and their role in the country’s history. For instance, a seventeen year old teenager named Kip Kinkel was sentenced for life prison in Oregon as he murdered his parents and killed two students at his school. “A psychiatrist who sp...

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