Persuasive Speech: I M Safe At Parkland High School

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Imagine you’re a middle or high school student after all of the events at Parkland. Would you feel safe? I can assure you most students don’t, and neither do I. Quite honestly I do not feel safe at school especially after the Parkland shooting. I feel like we are just sitting ducks, Waiting. I believe that we can do something about this, but in the current state, I believe students are not safe at school.

On Wednesday February 14, 2018 a student at Parkland high school in Florida killed seventeen people and injured others. This shocked the nation, and really made a push for more security in school, and more control on the purchase of guns. After all, the shooter suffered from mental illness and was visited by the police on several occasions, but yet he was able to purchase an assault rifle. I’d rather not give my input on gun control, but that fact on its own is ridiculous. …show more content…

Students will most likely suffer from PTSD for the rest of their lives; families will always remember the tragedy that befell their loved ones. We must learn from our mistakes, and correct them in the future. This is why people have made a push for more security, and for good reason: to prevent this from happening in the future. Students should be protected at all times, and receive help if they need it. People have been blaming this tragedy on many different things: guns, police, the school itself, violent media, etc. We can’t be sure exactly what it was, it’s most likely a mix of some of them, but the best thing to do is to prepare for all of them, and hope for a better

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