Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Quick Write:
Some people may not fully agree with the idea of metal detectors in school but, tragically there have been too many school shootings to count in recent years. I believe that society give children these crazy ideas because of what is allowed in schools, to be allowed in schools without medal detectors or school  ID's is absolutely absurd and unsafe.

  Daniel R. Weinberger states that the brain of a 15 year old is not mature. Particularly in an area called the prefrontal cortex, which is critical to good judgement and suppression of impulse. He continues to say the shooter at Santana High , like other adolescents, needed people or institutions to prevent him from being in a potentially deadly situation where his immature brain was left to its own devices. No matter what, if a gun is put in the control of the prefrontal cortex of a hurt and vengeful 15 year old, and is pointed at a human target, it will very likely go off. His claim was that teenagers are to young to know any better or to think before doing , I however disagree with his claim I do believe that it may be harder for an adolescent to control their impulses then it is for adults but for a adolescent to cause a shooting in a shoot would have to be thought out or planned.
 





1 comment:

  1. Good for you for having the courage to disagree with Weinberger. What evidence would you use to support your counterclaim to him? Where are the holes in his argument? I wanted everyone to deconstruct his argument in preparation for writing our own argument essays. 4-3-3-4

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