Escalation of School Shootings: A Growing Concern

According to the Harvard Politics, there were fifty five school shootings between November 1,991 and July 16, 2013 (Gupta). However, since 2013, there have been 142 school shootings (Mosendz). If the ratio would have stayed the same between 1991to 2013 and 2013 to 2016, eight school shootings would be expected to have taken place during 2013 and 2016, not 142. School shootings are becoming more of a problem throughout the years. More and more innocent students and teachers are dying due to school shootings. This is not fair to those that are being shot, or to the family and friends of the ones being shot. Often, tragic events like this are hard for someone to overcome, therefore leading them to continuously thinking about what happened. I thoroughly

For most high schools, teachers and students are expected to have an ID badge on at all time, but do most teachers actually enforce that? Personally, I know that at Pickens High School there may be two or three teachers that actually enforce students wearing ID badges. The teachers ID badge is what allows them into the school, however, for students this is not the case. Students come in from the student parking lot whenever the doors are unlocked, which is in the morning before school and when classes are changing. So what do the students do whenever they have a dentist or doctor appointment or a flat tire

This sounds dangerous, having guns in schools, but it actually provides more security. Most SRO’s have guns, which they are trained to use. Kenneth S. Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, says, “School districts considering arming teachers and school staff with guns would take on significant responsibility and potential liabilities that I firmly believe are beyond the expertise, knowledge-base, experience, and professional capabilities of most school boards and administrators” (Arming Teachers and School Staff- School Security”). Trump does not believe that teachers should be allowed to arm guns inside the school because of a liability issue. Nonetheless, most houses have guns in them, but when they are put up in a safe, or somewhere children cannot get to, the house is still a safe place. Therefore, if the school did allow the teachers to obtain a gun somewhere in the classroom, intruders would be less likely to show up because they know it is the whole school against the single, or few intruders. Teachers will only be allowed to be armed at school if they have a concealed weapons permit, CWP, and are thoroughly trained on how to use a gun. Teachers will be required to go through a drill once a month on how they should hand the situation if an intruder were to come into the building, as well as how they should handle a gun and when they should use the gun. Due to only