Since 2013 there has been a massive 300 school shootings in American Schools and this year alone 9 have these have already took place. And we are only in March. However in the UK there has only ever been 1 since 1996 over 20 years ago. So, why does America not have a solution to all of this?
Florida Shooting
On February 14th a day of love and happiness.. we were shocked to find out that there had been 17 young innocent teenagers killed in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. A former 19 year old student who had been expelled began shooting students and staff with a semi- automatic rifle. The suspect, Nikolas Cruz, blended in with the crowd of fleeing students and was arrested in a residential area of Coral Springs after walking away from the school.
How heart breaking to think that a young child attending such a safe place, school, might not ever come home. No child deserves to have their innocence ripped from them at the hands of a rifle.
The Dunblane Massacre
The Dunblane school massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 children and one teacher before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history. After this tragic and heart-breaking event, there was a new law introduced. This stopped people in the UK from getting hold of a gun. This law has been really successful because there hasn’t been any School shootings in Scotland since this law has been brought into action.
Sandy Hook
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members. The gunman also shot and killed his mother after she tried to stop him. She was found wearing her pyjamas in bed, shot four times in the head with a rifle. Nancy Lanza was also a teacher, but education officials say that have found no links between her and Sandy Hook Elementary School. After the Sandy Hook school Shooting celebrities banded together and thought “enough was enough”. They all came together and wrote a song to express their opinions and thoughts about school shootings.
Trump Suggests Teachers Get a ‘Bit of a Bonus’ to Carry Guns President Donald Trump says he thinks teachers who bring guns to school should get cash bonuses for their efforts to protect students. Since the Parkland shooting, Mr Trump has repeatedly blamed mental health care deficiencies for the epidemic of gun violence in the United States, and suggested that giving teachers guns could reduce deaths. Donald Trump has also suggested giving between a 10 and 40 percent wage rise to teachers who bring firearms to school to protect their students however this teacher would need to undergo extremely careful training beforehand. During a meeting with student survivors of mass shootings and their parents in the White House, Mr Trump asked those in attendance whether they would support armed teachers in schools. He also suggested that he is interested in exploring increasing awareness of mental health issues. The President said that he does not think that simply increasing the number of armed guards in schools would be enough to stop school shootings. “You can’t hire enough security guards… You need 100, 150 security guards. But you could have concealed [guns] on the teacher,” Mr Trump said. How easy is it for American Citizens to purchase a gun? In America it is really easy to purchase a gun. An experiment was carried out By CNN news. The video showed a 13 year old boy go into different shops trying to buy multiple illegal items, for example cigarettes alcohol, scratch cards and adults magazines, This boy gets turned away time and time again as he clearly doesn’t not look anywhere near 18. The young boy then walks straight into a gun market and within minutes walks away with a riffle. If this young boy can purchase a rifle with his own money who’s to say he won’t cause any damage with it? Should guns be illegal in America? Guns SHOULD be banned in America. America should take into consideration other countries and the results since they have changed their laws about guns. In 2015, there were 33,636 deaths due to firearms in the U.S, while guns used to kill about 50 people in the U.K. More people are typically killed with guns in the U.S. in a day (about 85) than in the U.K. in a year. This proves that by reducing the amount of guns in the US can prevent many murders. Something has bound to happen sooner or later…
