Active School Shooter Introduction The intention of this paper is to look at and present some issues and strategies that members of a school community think about when trying to create safer schools. Particularly when addressing an active shooter in a school setting. A major issue to consider when trying to keep all schools safe, is the simple fact that no two schools are the same. Understanding this can lead us to the conclusion that it is impossible to have one global plan or program that can
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Street, and the bombs went off near the end of street. A shootout also killed took place killing a campus officer (Boston Marathon Bombing).
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As stated on thinkprogress.org, ABC News reported thirty-one school shootings in the United States since Columbine in 1999, where thirteen innocent people were massacred. Allowing professionally trained security guards to possess the right to carry firearms will drastically reduce the amount of deaths in similar situations, including those of children and teenagers. With the use of their firearms, security guards have a higher probability of being able to offer protection for the students and faculty
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“Should Teachers Carry Guns in School?” The Premier Online Debate Website, www.debate.org/opinions/should-teachers-carry-guns-in-school./works cited page This website was important and critical to my essay because it offered ideas that supported my thesis on why teachers should be allowed to have a gun in school. The questions of students getting their hands on the gun, mentally unstable adults being able to get their hands on the gun and training the teachers were answered. Ideas on how to make
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Just recently, Levi Tillemann, a democratic candidate campaigning for a seat in the US House of Representatives, released a new campaign video advertisement in preparation for the upcoming election. In the ad, which took idiocy to a new level, he absurdly suggested that the solution put forward by republicans to arm well-trained volunteers with firearms would lead to innocent kids being killed and claimed that arming them with pepper spray was a better alternative. The democratic House candidate
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City of Bakersfield (2017), Vice Principal Williams of Tevis Junior High School worked in a district that had a gun free zone policy. In December of 2013, Williams obtained a license to carry a concealed weapon from the Sheriff's Department to protect his family and began taking his gun to school. In August 2014 he showed his gun to another teacher and mentioned that he always carries his gun, even on school grounds. Many days passed and Williams mentioned to another employee that he was on suicide
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short time ago, a commercial ad about gun control was shown. This ad shows a clock ticking down all the while showing young students, parents, teachers and an unknown person carrying a bag. This was a very emotional way for me to enter the world of gun control. The news seems full of school shootings lately, starting with Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook and the last one at USC campus. They seem to be growing on scale and frequency. School shootings and gun control have become tied together in
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I think legally teachers should be able to carry guns at school because if anything bad were to happen then they would have some sort of armed Having more people armed would deter shooters looking for an easy targetprotection to keep the students and themselves safe from harm's way. School shooting happen a lot, And I believe they need to be stopped or at least get some type of way from inside of the building to keep students and staff safe. The Parkland shooting demonstrated police are not
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schools could carry a concealed gun. School campuses should have police officers. In addition, all entrances should be secured and have metal detectors. I believe that certain teachers should carry a gun. 172 school districts in Texas allow staff and/or board members to carry firearms on school premises (Beatriz.1). And out of the 172 school’s districts there has been no school shootings. If the schools where the shootings has occurred, if the teachers would have had guns there would have
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On Jan. 1, 2016, new gun laws go into effect. This allows is for concealed hand gun license owners to carry openly. Members of Moms Demand Action are troubled with the new law. Moms Demand Action was created after the Sandy Hook’s shooting, where Adam Lanza had taken the lives of 20 students, ages of 6 to 7, and six adults. Shortly after, Shannon Watts created a Facebook page and reached out to people, specifically mothers who were dissatisfied with gun violence in America and the inaction of
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