School Violence
Guns or no guns that is the question. Guns convey violence across the globe, and though some countries have abolished them, America continues to allow the procession of arms in the country even though shootings have occurred. Within the past few years, high schools as well as colleges have had incidents where students along with teachers died as a result of school shootings. In America alone more than a hundred people have died from school shootings. Most schools in America are thought to be a safe place to learn, hence it’s a gun free zone, yet massacres like Virginia Tech still occur. American schools would be safer if only staff members such as teachers and security personnel had the privilege to carry guns in order to prevent school shootings.
Within the first three weeks after the Virginia Tech massacre authors expressed their opinions on writings. Michael Barone, Warren Goldstein, Jodi S. Cohen, Rex W. Huppke, and Adam Gopnik wrote articles influenced by the massacre. In “Feeling Safe isn’t Safe,” Barone takes the opportunity to raise the issue of concealed weapon laws, pointing out that in his view, if Virginia Tech had allowed weapons on its campus instead of being “gun-free zone,” the massacre never would have happened. He uses examples of Florida and Michigan as two states that are safe but still allow concealed weapons. In “Why It’s OK to Rat on Other Students,” Goldstein supports the idea of students informing on each other. Nevertheless, Goldstein wants students to “rat out” each other to avoid tragedies. In “How Safe Are America’s Campuses?”, Cohen and Huppke discuss the concerns of parents, but focus on student’s mental health is the best way to deal campus violence. They state that massacres like Virginia Tech are not epidemic, they only happen once in a while. The best way to deal with campus violence is to deal with it from the beginning, that being helping out the depressed student. Finally, in “Shootings,” Gopnik...