Essay On School Shooting

"We can't stop an active shooter, but we can minimize the carnage,". This is what John Scheu, the superintendent of Sidney City Schools told the New York Times when they interviewed him on March 2nd, 2018. School shootings are becoming a huge problem in the USA. We have a solution though, arming school staff. Arming school staff would make students feel safer, make the shooter feel more threatened if they shoot up a school, and give schools a way to defend himself if someone were to shoot up the school. Altho not all students feel safer when they know teachers are armed most do. At parochial school in New Mexico most teachers carry guns. On february 20, 2018 John Porter posted a video of this school to Louder with Crowder. This video talked about if students felt safer knowing that their teachers were

However, they will feel more threatened and unsafe if they knew that the teachers had guns. The amount of students/teachers carrying guns at school has gone down from 20% to 5% since 1992 of the school staff/student according to CampusSaftyMaggizne.com. This has made schools an easier target to shoot up because the schools have no way to defend themselves. Since 2013 USA Today said there has been about one school shooting per week. As I said before the number of guns at school has gone down, and the number of shootings has gone up. You might not think of the pattern but with gun numbers going down, school shootings have been going up. With fewer guns, the shooter has felt less threatened to shoot up schools. Finally, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, there have been 239 school shootings. This is another example of the pattern that I pointed out earlier. Almost every shooting gets deadlier and deadlier. As the statistics show, school shooters have been feeling less threatened to shoot up schools now that schools are not allowing guns on the