The Voice of Skyline College, San Bruno, Calif. Volume XLII - Issue 4
October 12, 2017
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By Maria Isabel Del Castillo Schmidhuber and Olivia Bowman TSV Staff Writer and News Editor
Safety on college campuses are becoming increasingly questionable as the rise in mass shootings, partnered with the lack of gun control legislation, lead some to feel vulnerable to an attack. Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama, Adam Lankford, analyzed mass shootings in 171 countries and found the United States to be an outlier in several categories. He discovered that in the United States, people have a greater chance of dying in mass shootings at work or at school. The United States is also one of the only countries in the world that has had more mass shootings than days in a year. The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) define mass shootings as “four or more shot and/or killed in a single event [incident], at the same general time and location, not including the shooter.” In the most recent mass shooting event, 58 people were killed and more than 500 were injured when 64 year-old Stephen Paddock shot at the crowd of the Route 91 Harvest music festival on Oct. 1, from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. This marked the current deadliest mass shooting in United States history. College campus mass shootings started with the Aug. 1, 1966 shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in which Charles Whitman killed 16 people when he shot at students from the university clock tower. Prevalence of U.S. mass shootings The Salon newsletter states that between 1983 and 2013, “119
with the United States. mass shootings took place around As Thomas G. Bowers the world. Sixty-six percent wrote in his article “The were in the U.S.” The rest of the Nature of Mass Murder world doesn’t have as many mass shootings as the United States even and Autogenic Massacre”, previous mass shooters when the statistics are combined. “have experienced “It has become a social thing, challenging setbacks in so common,” Briane Coreass, a important social, familial Skyline College student said . and vocational domains.” The GVA has compiled A study by the Citizens information on mass shootings has concluded that the United Continued on page 2 States has seen 273 mass shootings between Jan. 1 and Oct. 3. The United States has five percent of the world’s population but has 31 percent of all public mass shootings. Unfortunately, because of this, mass shootings are becoming a common tragedy associated
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