Sandy Hook Shooting Research Paper

Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting
How did the Sandy Hook school effect America and school safety? It was a Friday in Newtown, Connecticut, and on this day Adam Lanza Killed 28 innocent people. No one really knows why Lanza did what he did. But people have thought that the reason he shot up the school was that he battled with mental illness. He had a Sensory processing disorder and Asperger’s Syndrome which is a type of Autism.(Owings 17 and 19) There are also rumors that he had a very hard time when his Mom and Dad got divorced.(Owings 20) When he was in high school a teacher he really likes introduce him to a club that he thought Lanza would like. And which Lanza did. Lanza stayed at the club until the teacher left about two years later. Lanza

did not take this lightly. Due to Lanza having mental illness and the urge to kill, 28 people died that day.
There are a lot of effects about this disaster. Like how 28 people died and how schools have upgraded their safety equipment, and how it impacted Newtown, Connecticut. First off is that before he went to the school he killed his mom Nancy Lanza. He shot her four times in the head for the four people that hurt him the most. It is not clear who the four people are but Lanza father says that he knows one was for him. When he got to the school classes had just begun and all the main doors had been locked. So to get in he used his gun in which he stole from his dead mother to shoot thru the glass. He was then stopped by the principle in which he shot and killed. Then luckily the office ladies had heard the gunshots and sounded the alarm. Which gave some teachers time to lock and barricaded the door. But sadly most of the first-grade classroom teachers did not have enough time and Lanza killed them and end up taking his own life as well. (Owings 32)
Do to this horrible disaster a lot of schools have tried to upgrade their security and safety equipment. Like they have made it where the locks on the doors are inside the classroom and not outside. Also, a lot of schools have added bulletproof windows so that an intruder can not break in thru shooting the glass. This disaster might have been prevented if Sandy Hook had better safety equipment and locks that they could use from the inside of their classroom. No one can say for sure though because it’s hard to predict when something like this might happen.

After this disaster there have been lots of debates.

Debates about school safety for one. Ways to improve faster response in a time of emergency. There have been debates about gun laws and safety. Lots of people have also talked about mental illness and better ways to get people the help they need. For the victims and their family’s they made a memorial site in a little trail type of thing where the students are buried and are remembered at.
Mental illness and school safety played a role in the death of 28 people on that day. A terrible day that has taught us so much. To look for signs and warnings to make sure we get people the help they need. To never ignore those signs because we never know what someone is capable of doing. We may not be able to change what happened but at least work to preventing it from happening again. Hopefully, this terrible disaster helps all schools make their school have better protection for their students and

teachers.

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