Gun violence in schools is a very serious problem in America. More and more shootings are occurring, and no matter what has been done to try to prevent these shootings they still occur. The current methods being utilized to prevent gun violence in schools are not very successful, because school shootings are still occurring. To better prevent gun violence in schools and in general the United States must reinforce gun knowledge, security, and the laws that are already in place.
The opposition viewpoint, however may argue that these preventative measures will not work, and try to introduce the idea of creating more laws for guns and gun owners. There are also ideas that guns should be harder to get, or that the public should not be able to
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have guns at all. They will also ask the question; what if educating people about guns doesn’t help the problem? While all of these points are valid they do not apply in every case, nor has the government attempted to pursue the ideas presented in full force. The word gun is almost feared by Americans. In schools children are not allowed to draw or even talk about guns, they learn to fear them at a young age. Younger aged children are left in the dark about guns and never receive any knowledge about gun safety. For law abiding citizens wanting to own a gun this lack of knowledge must change. There should be mandatory gun safety course for anyone that wants to own a gun, and this training such be repeated every several years. With owning a gun comes many responsibilities, and it is important that the owner be mentally competent and capable of these responsibilities. When owning a gun there should also be mandatory storage requirements that keeps the gun safe, and out of the hands of non-authorized users. Even though every new gun sold comes with a gun lock, many people refuse to use it. With proper gun safety courses and proper gun storage people would be educated on gun use and safe handling and storage of their firearms and this training would be reinforced every couple of years to reinforce the basics of firearm safety. Increasing different forms of security is the next step to prevent gun violence. As gun sales increase, mental health services across the county have lost funding (). Many of these mental health services have been shut down simply because of funding. In almost all of the recent gun shootings the shooter has been a mentally ill and didn’t receive the help that they needed. The mental health services aren’t the only place that needs extra funding, assistance at schools needs to be easier to access. There should be people at school who are trained to evaluate children and provide them the help they need. Many kids have trouble connecting with adults at school and if a mentally ill child needs help they may not feel comfortable taking the first steps to talking to an adult at school. Many people believe that increasing gun laws would stop gun violence, but as a country we already have a good amount of laws on guns.
The problem with these laws is that they do not get enforced to their maximum limit. During the Obama administration, congress has failed to provide the necessary funding for the national instant Criminal Background check system (). This is the database that is checked prior to a gun purchase to ensure individuals with criminal records and mental illness aren’t allowed to proceed with the firearms purchase (). In 2007, congress passed the NICS Improvement Amendment Act; this gave states incentives to incorporate reporting mental health information into background checks. Due to congress not funding this act there has been little to almost no improvement within states. The states not receiving this funding are hurting the NICS, because they are not able to send them documentation, which tells whether an individual has been involuntarily committed. Another example of not enforcing the laws currently in place is the way that the Administration’s Justice Department handles people who lie on background checks. The FBI reported 71,000 instances of people lying on their backgrounds checks to buy guns in 2009(). But the Justice Department only prosecuted 77 cases. Why did the remaining 70,923 not get prosecuted? This also happens with many other laws like gun trafficking and criminal records. This is the real problem in America, creating more gun
laws will not fix the problem, but the laws in effect right now need to actually be enforced. With gun violence on the rise there must be new prevention methods to help stop gun violence. As one of the most advanced societies in the world there shouldn’t be as many shootings that happen in our country, yet it continues to happen. These ideas being enforced throughout the country, as a whole would be a much safer place and would minimize gun violence. A gun is only a tool such as a car, when taught the safe and responsible way to handle a gun or drive a car accidents decrease. We don’t advocate the need for increased traffic laws when a car crashes into a crowd killing 4 and injuring 44 with many being children so why do we demand more gun laws when a mentally ill person who shouldn’t have had access to a firearm uses it for violence?
In this article Emmett Tyrell informs us about gun violence in schools and what the NRA has proposed to stop the gun violence, and mass shootings across America. While the gun control debate rages, many schools have become war zones, and all school zones are vulnerable. The National Rifle Association's has come up with a 225-page report contains dozens of recommendations to improve safety in our nation’s schools. The NRA’s National School Shield program will train and enable school personnel to carry firearms to protect our nation’s children.
Taking privileges away from the majority of mentally stable, healthy, hard working Americans just because a percentage of alcoholics, drug addicts, gang members, and mentally ill individuals are to blame for the school shootings, murders and suicides, would just be insane. So, why is the government trying to implement more strict gun laws for the people that don't do these heinous crimes. The debate on if the government should take the guns away from all the citizens in order to stop these crimes would not stop those who are committing the crimes in the first place. Then, the question would be, how would we know who really has the guns and where they are?
From 1980’s till now, there are has been many school shootings. Many researchers have made many hypotheses as to why these occur. The most tragic shooting took place in Sandy Hook Elementary. 2. I believe that we should prevent shootings from happening in schools because schools are meant to be a safe education environment for students and faculty. There are many ways that school shootings can be prevented and the two most important ones are hiring more school security officers and having counselors help out troubled kids.
Although most security measures passively make schools safer, it is not nearly enough to prevent an individual who intends on creating mass violence from completing his or her task. State representatives, national organizations, school staff, and parents need to come together to figure out the most reliable ways to prevent an active shooter situation from occurring in their schools. One solution that has been active is many schools have partnered with local law enforcement agencies to provide a police officers to patrol school grounds....
Due to the recent disruption of violent crimes on campus, many citizens that are pro-gun activist have suggested that both the students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on school campuses. Those who are with guns allowed on school campuses claim that their rights have been violated for the reason that many college campuses refuse to allow weapons of any kind on their property. The Constitution of The United States of America already grants citizens the right to carry guns with them. It is not appropriate for guns to be in a vulnerable area such as a college campus or any University. There are already too many guns available to the public or easy to get any kind of gun, and allowing them on
Guns. The word itself conjures up images of bloodshed and death. Yet instead of instilling fear into people, American society has embraced guns and placed them in numerous homes under the pretence of protection. Add to that image - children. Children and guns should never have any association, yet has become somewhat commonplace because of the many incidences that involve the two.
There are many different views concerning the possession of weapons and firearms on school property and the actions that should be taken to better protect the children attending school. Many people seem to either clearly be for or against these ideas of this policy. Furthermore, people either feel it is necessary to arm the staff of the school to stop potential threats and others believe that guns have no place in schools unless they are carried by the protecting police officer of the schools.
Preventing school violence has been an issue in our society for so long it has almost become commonplace. According to an article on www.infoplease.com, since the year 2000, there have been a recorded 64 shooting related incidents that involved publicly occupied areas. That is an occurrence of almost five per year. Of those 64, 94% of these incidents were school related shootings. The violence goes from elementary schools all the way up to college universities. The statistics are not pretty by any means. So what are we to do? Should we institute better security? For all of these tragedies, it is time reasonable measures are finally taken to implement new methods of prevention and to address the school violence issues as a severely significant problem.
Nowadays in US everybody has gun because it easy to buy so how can we
Today kids worry about the quiet ones all of a sudden snapping and committing a mass shooting, the generation before us never had to worry about that occurring frequently, why? It’s because the importance of mental health is being neglected; “In Generation X, the use of mental health care services decreased by 16%...” (Psychological Today), instead of worrying about gun violence in schools; let’s reach out and talk to that kid with no friends, or stand up to the bullies that pick on the kid, th kids that generally end up being an potential shooter. Guns aren’t the ones pulling the trigger, people kill people, hatred spurs abuse to bring a gun to school and hurt other children. Additionally, the gun does not possess any hate, a gun is made
Imagine that you are walking from class to you car, and another student pulls out a gun and started to shoot the people walking to their car. Now imagine that a faculty member is also walking in that group of people. They would have a handgun, and would be trained to take down the shooter. Allowing full time faculty and staff to carry a handgun on college campuses will make students and faculty feel safe while they are trying to learn.
For over a decade, there has been endless news reports on violence in schools. In fact, just recently ( January 25, 2018), the news reported an incident at Murphy High School in Mobile, Alabama involving two teenagers. With school shootings apparently increasing exponentially, one cannot help but wonder why so many of these incidences are occurring and how we in the nursing community can help to prevent this problem. Undoubtedly, some underlying issues exist in these situations. In these incidences it seems that anger is one of the common factors. In the article “Anger In Adolescent Communities: How Angry Are They?”, Lisa Pullen et. al (2015), discussed the various contributing factors that affects adolescent anger. The researchers’ main intent was to focus on adolescents in a community environment
Guns should be kept near by school faculty at all times to provide safety to not only themselves, but the kids they are trusted with to keep safe. There is major problem with school shootings in America. In the U.S alone there have been 142 school shootings since the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. That is a near average of 1 shooting a week. Due to these shootings there have been many deaths, and countless injuries. However there is a way to avoid this problem. If the school faculty kept guns close by then school would not be an easy target and the staff could fight back if necessary before anyone could get hurt. Despite the fact the guns do make schools safer, many people believe that this is not the answer. They believe
There has been a lot of debate in the last few years regarding gun laws and schools. Students have become more violent toward one another, and mentally ill individuals seem to be targeting schools and public places. The amount of school shootings continues to rise, and there are no real safety protocols in place that will protect students and teachers. The places that used to be safe for our children, have become one of the scariest places due to violence. Children are dropped off at school each day, with the plan to hide if a shooting were to take place, and I feel that preventative measures have not been taken to keep students safe. Our classrooms would be safer if teachers carried concealed handguns.
Ever since August 1,1966 at the University of Texas, gun violence has been a steadily growing problem in the U.S.A. Since 1966, 1,081 people of all races, sexual orientation, and religion have died from mass shootings throughout the United States. However, our latest school shooting in Parkland, Florida has sparked millions of people to debate whether or not to ban firearms. Then our current President, Donald Trump, had the idea of to ban guns, but then giving firearms to our teachers in schools. What a terrible idea, but others agree. First of all, guns in general scare people. Which is why the only people who professionally carry guns are police. Teacher is not spelled P-O-L-I-C-E, if they wanted to carry guns as a part of their job you wouldn’t have chosen a career in education. Moreover, I guarantee that most teachers wouldn’t be able to pull the trigger on a former student.