Essay On School Shooting

As many know school shooting and threats are no laughing matter. Action must be taken soon before any more “serious” school shootings happen. Both articles had very great points and information on school shootings. Many people should consider reading these articles, especially parents as their children go to school. Everyone deserves to be safe and live. Recently at Apollo High School, the school I attend was threatened by a student and almost all the students had left home early for the fact that they were all terrified of losing their lives. This caused all classes to stop learning and this wasted a lot time. This one student joking around had stopped students from receiving education. As said in the article “No, there haven’t been 18 school …show more content…
This causes many students and parents to panic. In this article the company “Everytown” is aimed at for its inaccuracy in telling people if a school shooting is a school shooting or not. This is also a big deal for the fact that many people rely on websites for information, and giving the wrong information could be bad and misleading. Another main point that both articles talked about was Gun Control. As said in the article “Gun violence is a crisis in the United States, especially for children, and a huge number — one that needs no exaggeration — have been affected by school shootings.” if guns are the reason so many students are losing their lives and getting injured then they must be taken away, it’s obvious. Although many people believe that arming teachers is a great idea to fix this solution, I believe that it truly isn’t as said in the other article “Here’s How to Prevent the Next School Shooting, Experts Say.” The article states “After Parkland, there have been many calls to make schools a "harder target" — for example, by arming teachers. But there's a decent amount of research out there on what actually makes schools safer, and most of it doesn't point to more guns.” Many teachers throughout the U.S make headlines