Gun Violence Decrease School Shootings

Improved Essays
In America’s schools, gun violence is the leading cause of death. Schools will be safer if we introduce tougher gun laws and regulations. AR-15s are most used in shootings. Guns like AR-15s are not meant for hunting, we do not need guns like this. If we banned AR-15s we would decrease school shootings. Gun control would help make schools safer. Attacking a school with a knife is not as effective as an attack with a gun. A shocking night of violence took place on February 20, 2018, with six people reportedly stabbed in North London. Compare this to most gun attacks and there is a big difference. The biggest knife attack is only the size of some of the smallest gun attacks. Another country which introduced a ban on guns in the 90’s, Australia,

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Ever since the Sandy Hook shooting in late 2012, it has become glaringly apparent an alarming amount of the United States’ populace and lawmakers would sooner sacrifice the lives of children than ever dare consider the idea of constricting some of the freedom a gun carries. It might be a tad bit of an overgeneralization, and obviously very few would ever admit to believing they fall into that category, but the history of gun violence in the US shows the lack of attempts and resistance to improved weapon laws speaks louder than their words. Following the aforementioned shooting at Sandy Hook in 2012, there has been roughly 63 school shootings, give or take, ranging from only one being injured to over a dozen being murdered. After all these…

    • 1485 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Stop School Shootings

    • 100 Words
    • 1 Pages

    America has had one hundred and fifty school shootings since 2013. Every school shooting that has happened either killed or injured an individual. One may ask how can we prevent or avoid school shootings that are happening all around the world? Everyone wants to feel safe in any environment that he or she may be in. We have to stop school shootings in any way possible.…

    • 100 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There are many alternatives but as many may not work we have to keep trying to solve these problems. Many thing will fail to stop mass shootings but we’ve got to find something. We cannot turn to something as dangerous as guns on school property it would create an even bigger problem. They had a buzz-in system at Sandy Hook, but it did them no good at all, the guy shot his way in. School-associated student homicide rates decreased significantly after the federal laws restricting guns in schools were adopted in the early 1990s, and fewer students are carrying guns.…

    • 482 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Josseline Raudez Professor Marlene Cueto English 1102 15 July 2015 Gun control policy and school shootings in the U.S. School shootings in America is becoming quite the epidemic, far more so here than in any other advanced country in the world. The solution? Gun control policy. After a surge in school shootings in the 90s, researchers looked for ways to circumvent this issue. From this came the idea of gun control: the idea that you can actively diminish the amount of murders per capita by controlling the amount of weapons on the street.…

    • 1002 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Gun laws fill enormous gaps that exist in our nation’s federal laws and also help reduce gun violence and keep the citizens safe. Most of the countries that with the strongest gun laws have the lowest gun death rate. The mass shooting in schools in America is done by kids having control over guns. Diane Dimond, a reporter and journalist who published the article “Kids and Guns and Public Safety” argues that to prevent future mass shootings, gun owners need to take personal responsibility. Diane makes a point that “We were going target shooting with a real gun guided every step of the way in gun safety.…

    • 941 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Prevent School Shootings

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages

    One topic has been ripping through America, resurfacing every couple months after another tragic event — Shootings. The type of shooting that I fear most take place where I am required to attend 5 days a week, 10 months of the year — school. The idea of teachers being allowed to have guns rattles me more. How do teachers being armed prevent school shootings? In fact, looking at recent news stories teachers having guns becomes an apparently bad idea.…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Second Amendment

    • 1675 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The second amendment of the constitution states, "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. " The second amendments mean that: to keep the country free from too much control, the people are allowed to keep and use their firearms. Under any circumstance this right shall not be violated .Since it’s our right why is there so many limitations and restrictions.…

    • 1675 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Against Gun Control

    • 1247 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Gun control in the United States is one of the biggest domestic issues today. The issue of whether citizens are allowed to own guns or whether they are not allowed to own guns is debated every day. Gun violence continues to rise in public places. Large cities see more gun violence than anywhere else in the United States. Part of the violence in large cities happens at schools.…

    • 1247 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    Gun Control does not prevent Gun Violence Gun control is a very controversial topic especially in today's society; whether gun control is good or bad is a very talked about subject especially when it comes to the United States. This is a very touchy subject because guns are a part of a lot of people's daily lives. People that are anti gun control believe that no one should be able to put any restrictions on guns. They believe that people should be able to buy a firearm just like a pair of boots or a tool. They also believe that if you take firearms away from the law abiding citizens that just leaves firearms in the hands of people that don't abide by the law and leaves them defenseless.…

    • 1884 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1. False: This statement is false because, in recent years, a number of precautions have been taken to reduce gun violence in schools. Certain federal and state laws have made schools gun free zones, and, as a result, fewer students are carrying guns, and it is more difficult to get a gun into a school zone. Also, many schools have surveillance cameras placed on school grounds, which may deter those planning to commit a school shooting. Another action taken to reduce the danger of a school shooting is requiring students to use see through backs packs to reduce the chance of a firearm entering school grounds.…

    • 763 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Stopping School Shootings

    • 1808 Words
    • 8 Pages

    The firearms that are used can hurt anyone, whether the weapon is semi automatic or fully automatic. School shootings have increased the…

    • 1808 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Gun is the things that always cost so many problems, so why would they let a thing that can cost so many problems that age in school. In plus, school is a safe zone. A lot of the people think the school is a safe zone that student doesn’t get hurt, but like it always happened a lot of the school shooting events, all the thing because gun make a lot of the school shooting…

    • 1274 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    School shootings can lead to other violence because of the sadness that was caused by the school shooting. People do not realize that school shootings do not only affect the students who attend that school, but school shootings affect others across America. There are many ways school shooting affect children. Many students may feel anxiety about the events that took place. A lot of people worry that a school shooting or similar events could happen in their school (Brantly 1).…

    • 1283 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Improving school security consists of putting more advanced locks on doors, practicing more drills, and training the staff. All these things could help with the security of the students and school and help decrease the worry of the students and staff. These 3 things are not the only things we could do to help prevent school shootings, but the reason we chose these main 3 is because we didn’t want to go over the top with it. We didn’t want the school to have so much security that it felt like a prison/jail in a…

    • 878 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why Should Guns Be Banned

    • 1051 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In America, there is a growing perception that guns are: they are harmful, they kill, and they commit crimes, and so most guns should be banned. But, how can a gun kill or commit crimes; it is not a living thing, it is a tool. With the use of guns, America has grown to be a strong and independent country throughout history. The push to ban guns will only keep guns away from law abiding citizens since criminals, by nature, do not follow laws and respect the gun free zones. The banning of guns in America should end.…

    • 1051 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays