21 Colleges/Universities, 15 High Schools, 3 Middle Schools, 10 Elementary Schools, 2 Pre Schools, and 1 School bus. 52 in total, and the list Ccan go on and on to this day. How many more school shootings will it take for gun violence to be put to a stop. People all over the world live in fear because of gun violence. How is that any way to live? No one should live in fear for their life. Everyone should feel secure in their own home and be able to send their children to school feeling comfortable they will be safe throughout the day. What goes through one 's mind when they use gun violence? Why do they feel the need to harm innocent people? Parents try and find why this happens, but still get no true answers. …show more content…
These articles are written in newspapers, magazines, online and even on the news. Parents watch the news and read these articles. It makes them even more worried about their children because they don 't know if the situation will happen to them or not. Parents try and protect their children the best way they can, but when they read these article on school shootings and gun violence it scares them and forces them to do everything in their power to protect their children. But the real question we can all ask ourselves is, is everything in these articles true? Are all the details backed up by evidence or are they exaggerated? Which brings us back to the question, Is everything we find on the internet reliable or …show more content…
Children try and listen to the best of their ability, but if they are young they do not understand as well as sometime who is a teenager or a young adult. There is an article on the web titled as “School Shootings: Protecting your Children from Active Shooters and Mass Shooters”. This website is to inform parents on how to protect your children and safety tips for them as well. Parents will read this website and get all panicked because they will never want their child to go through something so harmful, they always jump to the worst conclusion. Can parents actually rely on this website? Do all the safety tips look reliable? Or is it just someone stating their opinion on how these tips can protect their child if an active shooter comes to their school. The website list facts like what to do if an active shooter comes into the school. They lists things such as teaching your child to stay alert, how to run, how to fight back. These are all examples of reliable and unreliable sources because if a child was in a situation will an active shooter the worst thing they could possibly do is fightback, that is very unsafe information. On the other hand, there is also trustworthy information that is useful for a parent to know and to aware their child of. There is also background information on the website which shows there is a real author and it talks about when