Similarities And Differences Of The Sandy Hook Shooting

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The tragedy that happened in Newton, Connecticut swept the world with a variety of emotions. Many individuals became angry or saddened by the tragedy. I think more of the individuals were angry of what happened to those 20 innocent children. Parents send their children to school thinking that they are safe but in this case ended in tragedy. I am going to discuss similarities and differences between two articles. I am also going to discuss how this shooting is a symbolic crime, how likely policy changes will be enacted and how unlikely they are to be enacted.
First I am going to discuss he similarity between the two articles. These two articles have very few similarities. These two articles focus on ways to help society to prevent another incident like the Sandy Hook shooting. They came up with policies that can try to prevent another shooting to this degree to happen in a school again. They both focus on the safety of the society.
Second I am going to discuss the differences between the two articles. These two articles have a variety of differences. The main difference is how they are going to prevent another shooting. The NRA focuses more on a program called National School Shield Emergency Program. This program focuses getting a trained security officer put in every school to help protect the children. The NRA said that this program will be free to make sure that every school as the chance to get this program. Compared to the NRA, the other article comes up with a variety of ideas to help out with the protection of children. Most of these ideas revolve improving permitting standards. Making them more strict so individuals have to renew them every couple of years. It also talks about going threw safety and fire training requ...

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...g, that could have raised questions about policy changes. Even know a policy change hasn't happened yet, I do think that eventually we will have new policies on guns. The focus of the policies may not be directly related to schools, but i think they will help prevent other shootings. I think policies will focus on the process of buying guns and permits that go along with owning guns. With these policies going into effect, I think they can help prevent other shootings like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary from happening again.
In the end both of these articles both have ideas about policies that need to be put in place. Even know they may come from different prospectives they both have the same idea of keeping citizens safe. I hope that eventually some of the policies they have came up with are put into place. I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.

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