Analysis Of The Sandy Hook Massacre

I was lounging around my living room making plans for my weekend when I first heard the news anchors reporting live from Newtown, Connecticut. I was anxiously awaiting the end of my first semester of high school when a classroom full of first graders lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I was just a child on December 14, 2012 when the sanctity of the American education system changed forever. In the weeks that followed the Sandy Hook Massacre, our country was left grappling with the reality of what had happened. All across the country reporters, politicians, and public safety officials were analyzing, calculating, and reconstructing that fateful morning. For the rest of us, the parents, students, and teachers in schools across

He provided his analysis of Sandy Hook’s safety measures for The Christian Science Monitor, “There were a number of things that were best practice….Sadly, they did not result in the desired outcome, but we have to ask…Could the situation have been even worse?” (Paulson). Mr. Trump’s narrative of the Sandy Hook Massacre is one of assessing technical successes and failures of emergency procedures from a removed perspective, but my narrative is deeply personal and one of returning to school that Monday with fear and dread in my heart. When I say this, I hold no ill will against Mr. Trump or any of the police officers, counselors, and politicians who, in the wake of tragedy, worked tirelessly to do their jobs efficiently and effectively. These professionals deserve Americans’ sincerest gratitude. I have no doubts that the work these men and women did in the aftermath of the shooting was the most emotionally taxing work of their careers, but nonetheless, the way Mr. Trump and similar professionals narrated the event to the media was much different than my own experience of the narrative of Sandy

My version of the Sandy Hook shooting is something I will always carry with me because I could no longer believe that the people in my life would be in my life forever. I realized life could be taken away in a second. My narrative is different from the media coverage of the event in tone, characters, and setting because it could have been me. For me, Sandy Hook was a loss of faith in the sanctity of my surroundings, not a crime scene or piece of legislation to