Mass Shootings


On February 21st, 2018 a tragedy happened due to a mass shooting at a school in Florida. This is one of many mass shootings on government property at an educational safe haven. The topic of mass shootings makes society wonder what can the government do to fix the situation and when. Many ideas have been laid out as having panels in hallways to cut of sections of the school to stop the mass shooter. In addition to that allowing a teacher to bear arms, so that they can stop the shooter the same way they’re stopping lives or giving the resource officer a gun instead of having a Taser with Pepper Spray. One idea in mind is having more resource officers to guard all the entrances as well as including a metal detector to stop the shootings from ever happening. Another idea is to make students wear clear book bags just in case something does go by the metal detector undetected.

 There are many ways to stop these mass shootings on or off government property, but it makes you think is it really the government’s top priority. These events have been happening a lot tripling since the year 2011. During 2011 to 2014 a mass shooting had happened once every 64 days. The term “mass shooting” can be defined in many ways, but USA Today described it as killing 4 or more people. Mother Jones gave several different mass shootings described as random rampages in public places concluding with four or more victims also. The average of mass shootings from 2011 to 2015 were 5 per year which is a small amount, but what if it happened in an area you are in while studying or watching a movie.

 Contributing factors that allow these events to keep happening were listed above which is lack of security. Another is failure of government background checks because of uncompleted databases or shortage of staff. What is more mind bobbling is that you can buy a high powered rifle or shotgun at age 18, but can not get alcohol or a handgun until age 21. Laws of the United States of America should get alternated a little to make America more safe instead making it one big battleground. If these incidents keep going unhandled then random purges like these will keep happening until resolved. Cleaning up the problems mostly talked about after the incidents happen will allow the situation to die down instead of building up.

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