The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. ... By 1997, 3.1 million students were suspended annually as a result of zero tolerance policies; and in 1998, 87,000 students were expelled under the same regulations. ... A very small percentage of students suspended and expelled faced such consequences as a result of violent behavior. ... In the interpretation of this policy, Shanon was no different than a student who came to school carrying a loaded gun. ... In Palm Beach, Florida school police charged ...

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Gun Control The basic premise of the constitution is to allow people to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone else cannot take one's right to life. However there are times when people try. When that time comes, the victim must have a way to protect himself. A handgun carried concealed is a great way to offer that protection What gun control advocates can't perceive is that gun control laws are aimed at the legal buying and selling of guns. ...

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They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather than some of them are violent. ... Crimes with guns and knives wouldn't take place without the students having access to those weapons. ... Another study found by high school, 25% of students fear victimization by their peers. ... Instead of allowing students to spend time on the streets or with gangs by getting them suspended, whenever the student is not dangerous, in-school suspensions and comm...

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The first study involved two-hundred and twenty-seven college students. ... Then they asked the students to tell them how often they had played video games. ... The second study involved two-hundred and ten students and the doctors had some students play Wolfenstein 3D (a violent video game) and some students play Myst (a non-violent video game). After playing the video games the doctors had the students simulate a punishment of an opponent by having them give their opponent a noise blast that lasted as long as the student pushed the button down. The students that played the violent video gam...

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In the study, Bushman and Geen (1990) showed 100 undergraduate students (fifty men, fifty women) videotapes that portrayed different levels of violence (from extremely violent to not at all). ... "The study, which was divided into five experiments, had undergraduate students listen to songs that either had violent lyrics or minimal to no violent lyrics, but were the same length and genre, either hard or soft rock" (Anderson, Carnagey, &Eubanks;, 2003). After listening to the songs, the students filled out different surveys and completed different tasks according to the experiment (Ander...

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"We are raising generations of children who learn at a very early age to associate horrific violence with pleasure and excitement - a dangerous association for a civilized society." ... The children that did this cold-blooded act were seen by other High School students as a little bit "different" but not "disturbed," to their knowledge anyway. ... After the whole Columbine High School tragedy was over, it was revealed by other students that the kids who went on the killing spree were very into hardcore video games with a lot of violence and blood and gore. ... Children might not learn how to c...

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He or She learns that its fine to hurt someone as long as they are bad, so if cousin Joey takes my toy its O.K. to hit him because his bad. ... Among these, the killing of a New York principal while looking for a missing student was one of the most publicized in the country. ... Daly was simply looking for one of his students who earlier that morning had left the school upset because of a fight with a classmate. ...

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While a minority of Political Activists or Students use violence to pursue change, groups like Violent Extremists and Gangs are far more likely to use violence. The voices of Political Activists and Students will be ignored by governments if they choose violence as a means for sending across a political message. ... Unlike an impoverished urban area, a college campus has a high economic and social status as well as intelligent students and faculty. However, a small community filled with young, rebellious students is very prone to civil disorder. ... Police should learn hand-to-hand combat...

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It is not a surprise to learn that the mass media is the most powerful source of information we have, and nothing else in today's world influences public perception quite as heavily. ... The American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography performed a study in which several college students were asked to spend one and a half hours in an isolated room with a large volume of pornographic media, as well as a large volume of non-explicit media such as Reader's Digest (Howitt, Cumberbatch 1975:80). ...

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It is not a surprise to learn, then, that the mass media is the most powerful source of information we have, and nothing else in today's world influences public perception quite as heavily. ... The American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography performed a study in which several college students were asked to spend one and a half hours in an isolated room with a large volume of pornographic media, as well as a large volume of non-explicit media such as Reader's Digest (Howitt, Cumberbatch 1975:80). ...

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