School Shooting Research Paper

On Valentine's day, seventeen people were pronounced dead due to a school shooting at Parkland High school; a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In addition to the Pulse Nightclub and Fort Lauderdale airport mass shooting this was the third massacre since 2016 with a total of seventy-one people shot and killed. The massacre is now known to be the deadliest school shooting since 2012, when Sandy Hook occured. With students now afraid to walk to halls of their school, which was set out to be a safe learning environment, are living in fear, not knowing what will happen next. This has been a reoccurring event in the United States, especially in Florida. It has now took several fatal shootings to consider adding stricter gun control laws or banning assault weapons at all. The big debate has occured after Parkland, a shooting nobody expected on a day that was supposed to be filled with love.

February 14, 2018, with the chaos when a local student at Marjory Stoneman

With the world getting more violent everyday, a change needs to happen. Since the fatal shooting, the big question everyone is asking; what are we going to do next to prevent this from happening again? Three weeks after the tragedy, the first gun-control bill in Florida was on the governor, Rick Scott’s desk in over two decades. With a sixty-seven to fifty vote, the new Florida gun bill was established in March of 2018, which accomplished raising the minimum buying age from eighteen years old to twenty-one for all guns creates a waiting period, bans the bump, and arms school employees. As well as fund school security and in Florida school districts they will now offer more mental health resources. Although this bill does include a variety of ways to prevent further issues, what it doesn’t contain is banning any assault weapon at all, or ban high capacity magazines or strengthen background checks on the