Technology to Prevent School Shootings
Project Practicum Part 1
Dated: January 28, 2013
By: Shailendra Avva
Overview: This paper talks about recent catastrophic events and brutal shooting incidents that have taken place in schools that are related to the safety of children, faculty and other visitors. Further this paper discusses technological solution that could be applied to avoid such events and provide more safety to the people at school.
Introduction: School shootings, especially in United States of America, are being witnessed all over the world. These shootings are not just recent incidents; we can find these throughout history. School students who are having improper guidance are getting carried away and involving in violent activities and harming fellow students/faulty and even killing them. Getting access to weapons like knifes, guns and ammunition has become fairly simple for these students because almost every home in United Sates of America has a gun. Students living in environments where improper guidance and moral education is lacking are at situations becoming outrageous and taking their anger by killing or harming people.
Historical Summary: Since 1980 there are about a hundred school shooting incidents that happened throughout the world killing 294 people (Agnich, 2013). One of the most dreadful events happened very recently on December 14, 2012 in a school in Connecticut called Sandy Hook when a kid named Adam Lanza has rampaged killing 20 children and 6 others including his mother and later killed himself. His mother owns couple of guns which gave him access to them (Caulfield, 2013). Another fearful incident happened in 1999 at a school called Columbine High School in Colorado where two kids named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed a teacher, 12 students, injuring 21 people and later killing themselves. They got access to their guns and ammunition from K-Mart. The bombing incident that took place in 1927 at bath Township, Michigan killed 45 people and injured 58 people
Dated: January 28, 2013
By: Shailendra Avva
Overview: This paper talks about recent catastrophic events and brutal shooting incidents that have taken place in schools that are related to the safety of children, faculty and other visitors. Further this paper discusses technological solution that could be applied to avoid such events and provide more safety to the people at school.
Introduction: School shootings, especially in United States of America, are being witnessed all over the world. These shootings are not just recent incidents; we can find these throughout history. School students who are having improper guidance are getting carried away and involving in violent activities and harming fellow students/faulty and even killing them. Getting access to weapons like knifes, guns and ammunition has become fairly simple for these students because almost every home in United Sates of America has a gun. Students living in environments where improper guidance and moral education is lacking are at situations becoming outrageous and taking their anger by killing or harming people.
Historical Summary: Since 1980 there are about a hundred school shooting incidents that happened throughout the world killing 294 people (Agnich, 2013). One of the most dreadful events happened very recently on December 14, 2012 in a school in Connecticut called Sandy Hook when a kid named Adam Lanza has rampaged killing 20 children and 6 others including his mother and later killed himself. His mother owns couple of guns which gave him access to them (Caulfield, 2013). Another fearful incident happened in 1999 at a school called Columbine High School in Colorado where two kids named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed a teacher, 12 students, injuring 21 people and later killing themselves. They got access to their guns and ammunition from K-Mart. The bombing incident that took place in 1927 at bath Township, Michigan killed 45 people and injured 58 people
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