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Violence in America: The Effects of Columbine
On April 21, 1999, two teenage students in Littleton, Colarado, started an epidemic that has plagued America ever since then. ... No longer was anyone safe from violence. ... The raw hatred is shown to everyone in America and then reporters in the following days tried to explain why it happened. ... Guns, gun laws, parents, school cliques, bullying, lack of school security, not monitoring “potentially” violent students, lack of religion, violent television and movies, violent video games, easy access to bombs/guns on the internet, hateful music, and hateful culture in America were all reasons given by the media in the preceding days according to Gary Kleck’s “There are No Lessons to be Learned from Littleton”. Kleck goes on in his essay to counter the media’s claim that these causes are making teenagers more violent by citing that homicide rates have declined from 1991-1998, juvenile violent crime has declined since 1991, gun violence has decreased since 1993, and school violence has been on a general decline since 1993.
Approximate Word count = 793
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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