High School Shooting Essay

Yesterday, on the 1st of October 2015, there was a mass shooting at a community college in Oregon. Fifteen people died and ten were injured. This is fifth school shooting of 2015, and the 117th since 2000. These people, who went to learn in a safe and enriching environment, were murdered in cold blood in front of their professors and peers. Why? Why do so many shootings happen in the United States? Even after shootings like Columbine and Sandy Hook, nothing has changed. Rather than changing the laws pertaining to gun control we give elementary school children bulletproof mats to lay over their bodies in case someone with a gun comes into their school with the intent to kill. It is far too easy for people in this country to obtain a gun, shown …show more content…
The dress code that wouldn’t allow me to wear tank tops as a 7 year old girl because it was “inappropriate”. The dress code that will kick me out of class for a visible bra strap so the boys can get their education without any “distractions”. The dress code that sexualizes all girls, elementary to high school, in any way it can. The dress code that is built upon misogynistic ideologies. You’re probably wondering what these two things mean in relation to each other. To me, it’s very simple; in the United States, I have the right to bear arms, but not to bare shoulders. People can cry or scream like a toddler about how owning an assault rifle is their human right, but if I complain about not being able to wear a tank top on a 95 degree day with 75% humidity, I need to “get over it” and “stop blaming things on sexism”. There is something very perturbing and backwards when the female body is seen as something more taboo and scandalous than extreme