Essay On Student Shooting

According to a data analysis conducted by Harvard School of Public Health, the percentage of college shootings has tripled over the past five years. What should our governments, state or national, do to reduce this statistic? What practical steps should be enforced to protect the safety of college students? Whether it be the college’s administration, or a law produced by the state governments, colleges should be forced to devise an evacuation stratagem for precautions, install an overhead speaker system, and dispense firearms to certain faculties and staff members. After the mass murder at Virginia Tech, which left thirty-two teachers and students dead, people have begun to question the safety of college students on campus. At the first shot, an email had been emitted to …show more content…
Villahermosa states, “Some faculty and staff members may be capable of learning to be good shots in stressful situations, but most of them probably wouldn't practice their firearms skills enough to become confident during an actual shooting. Unless they practiced those skills constantly, there would be a high risk that when a shooting situation actually occurred, they would miss the assailant.”
However, while most college campuses have security officers on campus, during the event of a shooting these officers may not be close enough to the shooter to take a shot. Because of the previously stated, college authorities should assign certain faculty members to secretly carry guns. These staff members should be required to sign a confidentiality agreement so that no one knows who's is carrying and who is not. Contradicting Villahermosa’s statement regarding the carriers readiness, these faculty members would be required to train monthly in order to sharply hone their gun