The Horrors of School Shootings

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Imagine walking in to school one day and thinking it’s going to be a regular ordinary day. Then, your teacher tells you to hide in a place where you will be out of sight, they walk over to the door, shut and lock it, and turn off the lights. You can’t say a word. While sitting quietly, you hear screaming and yelling. I’m innocent, I’m just a child! Then you hear gunshots and wonder what’s going on. A school shooting is happening. According to Steven Hsieh there have already been about 11 school shootings in the 2013- 2014 school year in the United States (1).
Schools need to find better ways of protection and security to prevent school shootings. In order to better understand why schools need to have improved protection, we need to know what school shootings are, why are there school shootings, and what is being done now for protection. Then, we also need to know how school shootings affect others, how to better prevent school shootings and how many shootings there have been in the United States.
A school shooting is gun violence that occurs at an educational place or building that school is held in. The phrase school shooting commonly describes acts committed by either a student or intruders from outside the school campus (Princeton University 1). A simpler definition is when a person is on or in any type of school property such as a school playground, a school building, or school buses and they fire a gun.
You may wonder why there are school shootings in the first place. Unfortunately, there can be many reasons why there are school shootings. The top reasons why school shootings happen are that kids pick on others, make fun of them or bully them. People want to get revenge and get back at the the people that have hurt them in t...

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...as a lot of frightened parents that were waiting for words on their loved ones. The gunman was identified as Adam Lanza. He was 20 years old. He killed 20 children and six adults at the school (Mcloughlin 1).
Officials initially told NBC News the gunman was Lanza's brother, Ryan. But a senior official later said that Ryan was nowhere near the shooting, and was not believed to be involved and was cooperating with the investigation (Mcloughlin 1).
In conclusion, schools should improve their security because there are too many school shootings that are happening. Overall, school shootings should not be happening in the first place. Schools have some methods of security; however, there are many other methods that they can also use to improve their security. There are also other things that could be done to improve our society, other than the security.

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