Topic > School Shootings: The Failures of the Welfare Society

Schools are no longer a safer environment for adolescents and children in today's society. Every year, many young lives are taken away due to school shootings. School shootings are a widespread problem that attracts attention due to their dramatic and frightening nature. These shootings cause teenagers who have been harassed or bullied to go into depression with guns to get revenge. However, school shootings are increasingly becoming an everyday incident around the world. School shootings are an event committed by a student with gun violence on a school campus or other institutions. This is becoming a very common and serious problem around the world, especially in the United States, violence rates in schools are extremely high as students carry guns, knives and other weapons. “Nationally, less than 1% of all gun deaths occur in self-defense; the rest are murders, suicides and accidents. In a study of 23 high-income countries, the United States recorded 80 percent of 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 a matter of revenge, hatred or anger? What drives these people to carry out these violent acts? These shootings are responsible for violence as they have many negative factors that cause school shootings such as aggressive behavior, bullying, depression, emotional disorders and so on. Each incident is caused not only by pain and lawbreaking, but also by questions about guns, mental illness and their role in the country's history. For example, a seventeen-year-old teenager named Kip Kinkel was sentenced to life in prison in Oregon for killing his parents and killing two students at his school. “A psychiatrist who sp...... middle of paper......, 02 April 2008. Web. 23 July 2011 .Kenneth, T.. “School Associated with Violent Deaths and School Shootings.” National School Security. Np, 2010. Web. 26 July 2012. .Krouse, W.. “Gun Control.” Almanac of political questions. Almanac of Political Issues, 2002. Web.22 July 2012..Niolon, R.. "Dysfunctional Families." Psychopage. psychpage, 2011. Web. 22 July 2012. .Schuster, B.. Preventing and preparing for critical incidents in schools. Np, 2010. Web. 25Jul 2012. .