Shootings

The nation is closely watching the Parkland students who are leading the campaign for safer schools including sensible gun control regulations. Whatever one’s opinions may be on gun control, one should respect the fact that the students are marching for a noble cause. It is clear there is no single...

American school shootings are dramatically on the rise. According to The Statistics Portal (2018), there have been over 290 school shootings in the country since 2013. Statistics also indicate that in 2018, there have been over 17 school shootings since the year began (The Statistics Portal, 2018). There is no...

The Parkland shooting seems to have struck a nerve amongst the majority of the population. In other shootings, typically people cared only for a couple weeks until that shooting was all but forgotten. But for some reason, this shooting has stuck in the minds of adults, and that is what...

It is hard to deny that currently, mass shootings continue to be in the highlight of the social issues that perpetrate the peaceful existence of many societies, affecting many countries worldwide. When it comes to the case of United States, one of the most famous massacres that happened at the...

Bushman, B. J. (2018). Narcissism, fame seeking, and mass shootings. American Behavioral Scientist, 62(2), 229-241. This scholarly source is related to the discussion of the profile of people who are likely to become mass shooters, analyzing psychological characteristics that are not related to the typical features such as low self-esteem...