Cho poked his head in the room a couple of times and looked around before exiting and entering a different room. The first shots were heard across the hall, in the hydrology class. It sounded like a nail gun or hammer hitting concrete blocks.
Suddenly one could hear a pin drop. Abruptly the classroom door burst open and Cho walked in and raised a Glock 9mm handgun. (Friedman)
“Once I got teased, I could see where the anger came from and what can make someone want to kill,” said Stefan Barone, a fourteen year old. (ABC News) The anger and depression is overwhelming and hard to control. There is no doubt that bullying cause’s suicide, and those bullied often commit acts of violence against others.
The mental state of mind one reaches when it involves killing another human being is inconceivable. Some claim there’s a choice to kill or not to kill, or to commit suicide or to live and face the consequences for the killings. This isn’t true, once this point has been reached one is no longer in control, it is as if someone else has tied puppet strings to your limbs and you are now transformed into a killer. The stage has already been set and there is little hope to cancel the play and walk away from the final act. Only the help of others and a long-term safety net can help at this point.
Imagine turning into someone unrecognizable and watching as your life rips apart, a life that you worked so hard for, because all hope is lost. You have hit the bottom of “the well of life”, and deep inside this “well of life” you understand it’s all because of students.
School shootings and suicides result from continuous bullying. As a result, after time some side effects of...
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In September of this year there was a school shooting in Washington and the suspect, who was a sophomore, wanted to teach the school a lesson about bullying. The authors state “Bullied children are shamed on a regular basis, and psychologists have long known there is a strong causal link between shame and violence (Gilligan,1997)... and There’s only so much torment and humiliation bullied children can take before many resort to lashing out in return” (Twenge et al., 2003). There have been many cases where bullied victims shoot up schools because they have been humiliated too many times and want to retaliate to release their anger and feelings. Victims of bullying resort to violence against their school because they had enough of being teased at, friends leaving them, and not being felt cared about so this leads to extreme violence costing lives of many innocent
In a masterly crafted and scholarly researched study of the Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, doctor Katherine S. Newman, takes a deeper look into the sociology of school shootings and concluded that gender, social class and bullying can affect and lead young children to these violent acts. Research on gender profile of the shooters suggests that in the culture today males’ masculinity is linked with violence, but that does not necessary mean that if one is a male they are a shooter. However, it has been proven that throughout the history of school shootings no female has acted in a mass killing using guns. For example, through Newman’s credible research,
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It seems to go hand in hand that while people are being convinced that school murders are occurring more frequently, various types of school violence also seem to be rising. This is once again a myth. The United States Departments of Education and Justice distributed a survey to students both in 1989 and 1995. It was reported that the students only felt a .1% increase in the total level of victimization (Kappeler, 188). As a matter of fact, only one in ten public schools report any sort of violence at all (Kappeler, 189).
School shootings have altered American history greatly over the past two decades. From 1997 to 2007, there have been more than 40 school shootings, resulting in over 70 deaths and many more injuries. School shoot-outs have been increasing in number dramatically in the past 20 years. There are no boundaries as to how old the child would be, or how many people they may kill or injure. At Mount Morris Township, Michigan, on February 29th, 2000, there was a 6 year old boy who shot and killed another 6 year old girl at the Buell Elementary School with a .32 caliber pistol. And although many shootings have occurred at High Schools or Middle Schools, having more guns on those campuses would not be a good environment for children to grow up in. However, on a college campus, the pupils attending are not children anymore; the age range is from 17 to mid 20’s. Therefore they understand the consequences associated to the use of weapons and have gained more maturity. In April 16th, 2007, at Blacksburg, Virginia, there was a shooting rampage enacted by Sung-Hui Cho (23 years, from Centreville, VA) who fired over 170 rounds, killing 32 victims, before taking his own life at the Virginia Tech campus. Colleges and Universities would be a much safer place, for student and teacher, if guns were permitted on campus for self-defense purposes.
Poland, Scott. "What we know about school shooters: they are not simply normal kids." District Administration July-Aug. 2012: 38+. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Apr. 2014.
Bullying can effect both bullies and victims, causing them depression and anxiety (Schneider, O'Donnell, Stueve & Coulter, 2012). This psychological distress from bullying can lead to self-harm, including suicide attempts or ideation (Schneider, O'Donnell, Stueve & Coulter, 2012) and homicide (Robers, Zhang, Truman, Department of Justice, & National Center for Education Statistics 2012). Furthermore, lower academic performance and risk of drop out have been associated with bullying (Nansel, Overpeck, Ruan, S...
School shootings have been a part of America’s history since 1700’s when four Lenape Indians went into a school in Greencastle, Pa., and killed the teacher and up to as many as 10 children (Epstein, 2012). Since that day school shootings have become almost a regular occurrence. This school year alone, we have already reached eleven shootings (Hefling, 2014). Perhaps, an even more stunning number, since the Sandy Hook shooting in December 2012, just fourteen months ago, America has had an appalling 44 school shootings, totaling a horrific 28 deaths, in just fourteen months (Dimon, 2014). Since that day in December, about 1,500 state gun...
Bullying in all forms hurts mental health. Adolescents who have experienced bullying in any way are often diagnosed with depression and have low self-esteem. They begin behaving in disobedient ways, doing worse in school, and using drugs and alcohol. Lastly, these kids were found to be more likely to attempt or complete suicide
...es. Strout came in the front door and shot Frank twice in the chest and once in the face with a 9 mm auto-matic (112).
This is a tiny, partial list of young children who have committed suicide over the last couple of years as a result of being bullied in school. The kinds of bullying were diverse: Phoebe was bullied by several girl classmates because she had started dating a boy in their school; Jaheem and Carl Joseph were bullied because classmates saw them as gay, although what that meant is that they were physically small for their age; many of the children on this list – most, actually – were bullied because they were gay; Asher was bullied because of his religious beliefs; and Ashlynn was bullied by her classmates and called “slut, ugly, and
Langman, Peter. “Rampage School Shooters: A Typology.” The Lee Salk Center for Research, 2001. Web. 7 May 2014.
Bullying is a growing concern in a society where status and exercising power over another human being are increasingly important in developing one’s social circles. Dan Olweus (Norwegian researcher and founder of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program) defines it as an “aggressive behaviour that is intentional and that involves an imbalance of power. Most often, it is repeated over time” (Violencepreventionworks.org). School victimization is an especially delicate matter that has only really been in the public eye for the past half century, as more and more researchers and psychologists pointed out its short- and long-term negative effects on targeted individuals. It has since been widely investigated and numerous programs have been developed in an effort to address and prevent the many forms of bullying that exist today. The negative effects of such an abusive behaviour are various and can greatly differ from individual to individual. However, there are three main consequences that can be associated with school bullying, which are: school avoidance, depression/anxiety and even suicidal attempts.
The dangers of school bullying can be seen in the Columbine Massacre which was listed as one of the top five deadliest shootings in the history of the United States. On April 20,1999 in a small town in Littleton, Colorado. Two high students Dylan Klebold an...