Today’s Real World Challenge: High School Shooting

My topic is school shootings. School shootings are when someone invades a school or university and shoots (injures or kills) a student or faculty member of that school. I chose this topic because I feel that this is a real problem in the real world today that needs to stop. Innocent people are dying and being sent to hospitals for problems that they didn’t even start, that they aren’t even involved in. I also know that I would hate for this to happen to my school, so I want to spread awareness about this problem.

There are many things contributing to this problem. The fact that the most recent school shooters have been adolescents is astounding. This means that they have access to guns. This also means that these people suffer more from mental health issues or limited conflict resolutions. Personally, I think that if we change the age of people who are allowed to purchase guns and press the schools to focus some more on the mental health of their students, the number of school shootings should decrease.

How to Raise Awareness

A couple of ways to spread awareness would be to have assemblies in schools to talk about school safety and gun awareness. This brochure is also a good way to spread awareness (hints the reason it was created). Raising awareness would be a great way to keep schools safe from shootings.

What’s the Problem?

School shootings have been a devastating problem in the United States that has increased terribly over the past couple of years. There have been more school shootings in the last 18 years than there were in the 20th century.

Most Recent School Shootings in the U.S.

• Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Indiana
• Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas
• Highland High in Palmdale, California
• Forest High School in Ocala, Florida
• Raytown South Middle School in Raytown, Missouri
• Gloversville Middle School in Gloversville, New York
• Great Mills High School in Lexington Park, Maryland

“Thoughts and prayers won’t stop a speeding bullet….” —DaShanne Strokes Interesting Facts about School Shootings Based on the estimates of some databases, the U.S. has experienced more school shootings between 2009 and 2018 than dozens of other countries combined!

Sources:

• https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/us/school-shootings-2018-list-trnd/index.html
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180419131025.htm
• https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/school-shooting
• https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/school-shootings-us-vs-world/
• https://twitter.com/AnneClaireCNN/status/998412827911249921/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E998412827911249921&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snopes.com%2Ffact-check%2Fschool-shootings-
• us-vs-world%2F  

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