Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Mass Shootings Are Changing Us

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/12/mass_shootings_are_changing_us_lockdowns_guns_and_fear.html

8 comments:

  1. I think tougher guns may work but there,s the black market but people need to look past the weapon of choice and look at the human that did it and look at the event happened tat may have triggered the person to do this. I think we need to start testing for mental illness before you get a gun but that may not help. So I think we need to educate everyone about mental illness so maybe the shooter or who doesn't seem like there crazy as people see mental illness or don't taken it serious enough. But the reason why I'm suggesting it is because it has been proven that 5% is the cause the other cause I've read has been concealed weapons but I don't think that's a real reason though.

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  2. I think tougher guns may work but there,s the black market but people need to look past the weapon of choice and look at the human that did it and look at the event happened tat may have triggered the person to do this. I think we need to start testing for mental illness before you get a gun but that may not help. So I think we need to educate everyone about mental illness so maybe the shooter or who doesn't seem like there crazy as people see mental illness or don't taken it serious enough. But the reason why I'm suggesting it is because it has been proven that 5% is the cause the other cause I've read has been concealed weapons but I don't think that's a real reason though.

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  3. I believe that mass shootings are changing us to an extent. I feel like we feel like we are protected but once something happens that is when everybody panics. People always talk about background checks and say "oh if they would of had to take a background check, then we wouldn't be in this situation!" I don't think it's a matter of background checks. I feel that if these people are serious about what they want to do, in most of these cases are shooting up different places, I feel that they would already have these weapons or they would find a way to get there hands onto these weapons. So I feel like there is honestly nothing that we can do, I know that this is not the right thing to think but I feel like we really have no power, these people have there weapons, and they will find a way to do what they want. Do I feel like mass shootings have changed us. I feel like they haven't changed us, they only change us when it happens.

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  4. yes i think that mass shootings are changing our kids anyway i dont know how much this is changing adults. Mass shootings are changing kids perspective of safty and may have trust issues in the long run or just be completely scared and not have a social life (ex: ferrel children).

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  5. yes i think that mass shootings are changing our kids anyway i dont know how much this is changing adults. Mass shootings are changing kids perspective of safty and may have trust issues in the long run or just be completely scared and not have a social life (ex: ferrel children).

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  6. I do think that mass shootings are affecting kids. They see this stuff on the internet and on TV and they do question their parents and some are even scared to go to school. I also feel it does have an affect of adults that have children that they send to school. They are going to be constantly wondering if their kids are safe at school or if they did the right thing sending them to a public school. When people do buy guns I do feel like the background checks need to be a little more strict, but if someone is determined to "shoot up" a school a background check isn't going to stop them. They are going to do it no matter what, they probably already own a gun. Again I do think that this is having an affect on people.

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  7. No doubt about it mass shootings are becoming an epidemic we can not stop, not with laws, but with an idea that enough is enough. Like politicians are trying to say is when will the our nation say it is enough, with angry tweets or with new laws. I don't think so enough is enough is when we spread that idea not just on the internet but with everyone we meet. Its time to stop praying and to start spreading three little words that can do more good than harm, enough is enough.

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  8. In a way we all get affected by shootings because it makes us feel unprotected, and for me, I feel scared because you never know if that could happen to me and my school or to the school my friends go to.

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