Essays on Adam Lanza

Video Games and How They Inspire Aggressive Behaviour?

Thesis Statement- The use of video games should be closely monitored because it encourages aggressive behaviour. Video Games- Video games are played with the help of an electronic device such as a console or hand held device, with the help of which, the input is given and output is received on the screen. These games create a virtual world where the players imagine that they are mentally present in the game. These games are particularly popular among children, though the people of all ages like playing them. The history of video games dates back to 1940 when the first ...

In the recent past, school violence has been identified as a serious problem in several countries, and the problem has been made worse in the incidents where guns and knives are involved. Generally, the violence involves fights between students, as well as physical fights carried out on school staff. One form of school violence which has received a lot of attention from the media, as well as the public, is school shootings. This arises from the fact that school shootings pose a serious threat to public safety, and the stakeholders have a reason to worry about that. In the last decade, one of ...

Research Report: School Shootings

Introduction Incidents of school shootings have been recorded in the United States since 1700’s. The 20th and the 21st century are especially notable because of the sharp increase of school shooting incidents in the U.S. Despite the previous occurrences of school shooting in the past, authorities recognize the huge gap in understanding such occurrences. Apparently, school shooting is quite a random incident of which “lie outside of specific crime issues such as terrorism, drug trafficking, gang activity, and domestic violence that have federal policies, law enforcement structures, and laws tailored in many instances to specifically address them”. Because ...

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‘Subject’ Should the US have stricter gun control laws? Guns have a special place in American history and Americans have always had a love for firearms. This love affair for guns started in the seventeenth century, when the early settlers were required to carry gun to protect themselves from Indian attacks. The ‘Kentucky rifle’ of the 1700s, Samuel Colt of the nineteenth century and WWII veterans bringing home their enemy guns as trophies are all symbols of the proud American past. However, the spate of recent mass shootings has called for a stricter regulation of gun ownership and distribution. The ...

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‘Subject’ Gun control vs. gun right “We have to try and stop this. It will be a long journey involving the personal choices of individuals and families, public discussions, mental health reforms, a change in the culture – you name it.” “I want people to be afraid of the fact that this could happen to them. But it’s real. It doesn’t have to be understood to be real.” The above words were uttered by Peter Rodger, father of Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in Santa Barbara, and Peter Lanza, father of the Sandy Hook killer ...

How did they allow him to a buy? This is a question that has been asked by people after they learned that Aaron Alexis, the lone gunman and perpetrator of the Washington Navy Yard shooting, had been involved in two previous shootings, and that he had filed a police report in August in Rhode Island, claiming that he was hearing voices. The truth is that his name never showed up in FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System while he was buying the shotgun used in the shooting, and he was not criminally convicted for his previous gun incidents. He may ...