Adam Lanza, Eric Harris, And Dylan Klebold

Adam Lanza, Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold are responsible for issues of gun control being a major discussion. At first you may not know who these three men are, but after being told their stories, you will know exactly who they are. Lanza was the man responsible for the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. Harris and Klebold were the two men who executed a horrendous plan to kill everyone at Columbine High School in April 1999. The discussions of gun control need to go deeper in protecting the schools, at all levels, from intruders impeding with their school day by killing their friends and teachers. There have been too many occurrences of shootings at schools where the weapons are brought on to campus and into the buildings unnoticed. There needs to be more done with security and surveillance at schools of all types; middle schools, elementary schools, and colleges. Although the government claims to have improved the security of the schools, there still needs to be more done to be sure that students and others cannot walk into

We have seen school shootings where the lives of five and six year olds were taken, and also ones where it was people in their early twenties (Timeline). The days of the incidents at Columbine and Sandy Hook will always be looked at as tragedies but also learning opportunities for the United States. In both of these cases, and most of the other situations, the gunman walked into the school with the weapon going unnoticed until the time the first shots were fired.How could no one question two students in trench coats or a man who may pose a threat to the school? Someone had to notice a change in behavior of the two teenaged boys and say something. Klebold and Harris continued on to kill twelve students and teachers, wound another twenty-four, and then take their own lives (School