Sandy Hook

With the increase of schools considering arming teachers as protection, prices are likely to pose an issue. According to Scott Whitman, an administrator at Jackson County School district looking into arming teachers in his school, said the cost would be the greatest factor. To arm and train ten teacher would easily exceed $25,000 a year, which both administrators and tax payers believe is an unneeded expense. To add to the already large expense, many teachers will ask to make a higher wage…

Carissimo in his article “There have been 45 school shootings in the US this year,” he informs the reader that, “There have been 142 school shootings in the US since the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, a near average of one a week[...].” This was an article written in 2015 about school shootings that happened in the three years after the Sandy Hook Shooting. I do not think we realize how common this issue really is. We certainly ignore the fact that this is such a relevant issue because, most of…

The sandy hook shooting was a very tragic event. This shooting happened around December 2013 (Lundin). The Sandy Hook shooting was the second largest mass shooting ever (Lundin). The intruder killed twenty innocent people (Lundin). The people think if the teachers had been able to carry a weapon on school grounds…

control laws are in a relaxed state. Mark Gius who wrote "Gun Law and Crime” thinks that “mass shootings such as at Columbine and at Sandy Hook school in Connecticut” (Gius 6) should be reason enough to enact gun control laws. Gius went on to explain that between “Aurora (where 12 were killed in a cinema) to Newtown (where 20 children and six staff were killed at Sandy Hook school) and the Virginia Tech shooting in Blacksburg (where 32 died), dozens of innocent victims have died” (Gius 7). These…

The book Newtown by Matthew Lysiak tells the story of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. What happened on the day of December 14, 2012, in which so many lives were lost? The morning of December 14, 2012 started out like any other day. Families said goodbye then headed off to work or school. The only difference on that day was that another person left their house, with killing on the mind. Adam Lanza, age 20, left his house that morning equipped with a shotgun and 70 rounds, a rifle…

School shootings are brutal. Children shot without reason. We obviously need to come up with a solution for these massacres. I propose that instead of hunkering down and becoming sitting ducks, we get more guns inside the schools. Our president, our sports teams, even our celebrities are protected with guns. We protect our schools with a sign banning guns, and if something goes wrong, we call someone with a gun. Let me clarify, we don’t protect them with guns, we protect them with qualified…

Standing Up for the Second Amendment On the morning of December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot his mother four times as she lay in her bed. Then he drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School and shot 26 more people—20 students, nearly all of them first-graders, and six staff members. When first responders arrived, Lanza shot himself. In the wake of this terrible crime, many Americans urged their lawmakers to further restrict citizens’ access to weapons. In particular, gun control advocates wanted…

who is the superintendent of Harrold ISD, “…sees his job not only as an educator, but also a protector of the 120 or so kindergarten through 12th grade students in his care”. This discussion carries on across the county today. After the events at Sandy Hook Elementary School, parents and school districts started questioning whether school are safe…

A similar incident in which criminals had guns in hands happened in January 2015, at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. According to Ray Sanchez and colleagues, collaborators in CNN News, disregarding gun laws three gunmen entered the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a daily satirical magazine, and killed 12 people. This senseless killing is evidence that criminals find the way to commit a crime disregarding gun restriction. The restriction of gun laws did not discourage the three gunmen…

for the students and want to keep school shootings from happening in the future. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre President Barack Obama said “We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years,” and I could not agree more with this statement. These terrible massacres happen to often in this country and something needs to happen to prevent massacres like these. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings the National Rifle Association said “The only thing that…