Informative Essay On School Shootings

No matter where you live in America, you’ve most likely witnessed youth violence. From teens fighting to school shootings, these things are so normalized in the United States that when they happen, we say our prayers, share our condolences with the victims, and forget about the event in a week. This pattern needs to stop, and we need to put an end to the issue that is youth violence. When you think of teen violence, you may think of bullying, fights, and weapons, but this example is far from that. Kyle Anger, Trevor Gray, Alexzander Miller, Mark Sekelsky, and Mikadyn Payne were all hanging out on the night of October 18, 2017. Walking along a highway overpass, they decided it would be a fun prank to throw rocks at ongoing cars. All was going

Jackson State is a predominately black college, especially in the 1970’s. On May 14, 1970, seven days after the shooting at Kent University, black students were reportedly throwing rocks at white motorists driving through campus. This led to much tension and fighting. During this chaos, a non-Jackson State student had set a dump truck on fire. This led to police calls, and when the police arrived, students threw rocks and bricks at the cops. The police approached the Alexander Dorm, a unit for women. Police opened fire on the dorms, claiming there was a sniper in one of the rooms. Investigators later found no evidence to back that claim up. Police had fired 150 rounds, about 400 bullets into the dorm. They ended up killing two men, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green, while injuring twelve more innocent students. Nobody was charged for these murders. Today, the broken windows that the police shot through are still on display at Jackson State College, along with a memorial to the deceased victims. This is just an example of police killing innocent youth for minor violence, while they should be protected. This kind of thing still happens today, so we obviously haven’t made any progress in

She was a transgender teenager who committed suicide because of bullying done by her classmates and parents. At the age of 4, Leelah started to feel like she was trapped inside of her own body. She was born as a male, but had always felt like she was a female. At the age of 14, Leelah came out to her parents that she was transgender. Her parents, Carla and Doug, refused to accept this because of their “Christian Values”. At the age of 16, Leelah asked her parents if she could undergo transition treatment, which her parents said no. Instead, her parents sent her to a conversion therapy camp. This didn’t work, as Leelah came out to her peers that she was attracted to males. Her parents eventually found out, and in their eyes, that made her gay. They were against gay people as well, so they punished Leelah harshly. They took her out of school and restricted her from talking to friends. Leelah felt isolated from the world. She ended up writing a suicide note and posting it to her Tumblr. In her note, she blamed her parents for her feelings of isolation. She committed suicide on December 28, 2014, by walking into oncoming traffic. Her parents still refer to her as a male, even after her suicide. This shows that some people really never change, making it hard to prevent youth