The Benefits Of Stricter Gun Control Laws

School should be a place of peace and opportunity, but gaps in the system of gun control threatens the safety of faculty and students. School shootings have killed a total of 297 lives, young and old (Slate Magazine). Gun control has been a continuous nationwide debate for many years. It seems that no one wants to take a stance against guns unless they are personally affected. In order to take control of the matter and prevent more incidents from continuing schools need to change. To achieve a safe environment in schools need to educate faculty, safe and students, heighten security, and assess mental health issues.

School shootings are a common occurrence on daily news. Students shouldn’t terrify going to school with the mindset that a shooter will show up with intention of killing people. Ideally, students leave home for school to learn, and not worried someone will come in and shoot everyone. When I was younger I would go to the bathroom worried a shooter would enter my school leaving me alone in a life or death situation. School security improvement is extremely important because children should feel safe and never in danger. Also, schools need better ways of helping children feel safe when they come for six hours everyday. More could be done for students, not only as prevention from shootings occurring but from relieving young children of unnecessary anxiety.

Unfortunately, the notion of schools being a safe place is no longer a trend across American schools. Disturbing mass shootings in the U.S continue to shock the media. A school shooting is when someone attacks a school using a gun. The Secret Service says these shootings are "deliberately selected as the location for the attack". The reasons massacres occur in schools is because of poor security, violence in video games/media, and bullying. Shockingly the U.S. has the most school shootings than any other country in the world. According to the FBI, mass shootings occur, on average, every 2 weeks in the U.S. While the cause of school shootings are sometimes unpredictable, it is a growing issue and they need to be prevented. Most shooters don’t have mental issues, they have a plan to kill, so there is no singular cause that creates violent people. On April 16th, 2007, the most deadly school massacre occurred. Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two students at Virginia-Tech. As Americans, we no longer should turn on the news and witness these gruesome murders. We try to make sense of these murders, but it’s ineffectual. There are measures we can take as a society to help. The number one question in a school massacre is, "why would a person that has a capable sense of mind even do that?” It is our moral responsibility to fix these issues. In order to stop this problem, we need to find its roots.

Statistical analysis about states in the U.S. proves the correlation between strict gun control policies and deaths related to firearms to the least extent. According to an article published by Richard Florida on CityLab, a research shows that states with stricter gun control have fewer gun-related fatalities. The study in the article was conducted by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health. Researchers measured “legislative strength” of gun control policies in each state using data from Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Specifically, the elements that the researchers include when accounting for “legislative strength” are:

School shootings have become a tragedy so common in America, that all of us has been affected in one way or another. Despite the fact that they happen once every few years, one time should be the enough and change should follow, this is not the case in most places. Some people think the solution to this problem can be solved by stricter gun laws, others believe the problem lies in Mental Health Awareness, both are uncertain but are the best option people can think of. Being a student and a member of the community, both of are well thought of solutions but they have their flaws. I believe the best way for schools to be safer is for the school system to be more in their community.

Since 2010 there have been thirty-one school shootings in the United States alone (Black). In this past year, the year of 2013, there have already been 8 school shootings in the USA (Black). Eight school shootings in one month. That number is outrageous and not healthy for our students to have the best learning experience. No student deserves to go to school fearing that they may fall victim to violence at their school. I believe that our schools can be made safer by a law being written that teachers should be allowed to carry concealed firearms in school. It is best for teachers to carry firearms to school because it will provide safety to

Gun control should be implied more than it is now. More gun laws should be created in order to tame society. Americans own over 300 million guns. According to (Everitt,Ladd) the author of the article “Does the U.S. Need Tougher Gun-Control Laws?” There are 99 gun deaths a day and some who committed the crime were not eligible to obtain or carry a weapon. More teens are being killed with guns than any other crime. Teens are not eligible to obtain guns due to the age requirement that is 21 years of age with a background check. There are gun show loopholes were 18 year olds can go and buy a gun without a license and background check. “The major cities chiefs association endorses closing the gun show loophole” according to Richard Perez-Pena the

There also should be stricter gun laws in the country. In the book, “The Spiral Notebook” by Stephen and Joyce Singular, the authors refer to James Holmes, the theatre shooter in Aurora, Colorado and state that, “With just one of his guns, the AR-15, he’d fired thirty rounds in twenty-seven seconds” (Page 27). AR-15s should not be so easily available to any American. There should be stricter gun laws and background checks for these types of guns. Banning AR-15s would help with this problem. Also there should be a federal law requiring longer wait periods to purchase any firearms and conducting background checks for everyone in every state.

Has this ever happen to you. You’re walking down the street and all of a sudden a stray gun jumps out of nowhere and fires at you.

Do you think that any USA’s citizen should be allowed to obtain a gun with no restrictions? Guns control is a controversial theme because everyone has a different opinion about having a gun. Many people use guns to feel protected to save their lives and the life of someone else. In this country, it is a benefit to have a gun, but it may be a problem if it arrives to the wrong person. The United States have been facing different situations with guns that have provoked the majority to obtain a gun to feel protected. It is very useful to have a gun because you can preserve your life, so it helps to save your life from crime or shooting, to be warned of delinquency and suicides, but people buy guns because it satisfies their

In 2010, 860 people were murdered by firearms in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Gun violence is a violence committed with the use of a firearm. Criminal gun violence includes; murder, assault with a deadly weapon, suicide, or attempted suicide. Main reasons why people buy guns are because of self defense, hunting, target shooting, and just for fun. In the New York Metropolitan area mainly people want guns for self defense. Due to strict laws, the New York Metropolitan Area has some of the lowest gun violence in the entire United States of America.

Many tragedies that involve guns on school campuses make people worry. Parents often ponder the question, “Is my child safe?” The answer is never a guaranteed which causes parents to fret. Parents should stop worrying. They need to trust school officials will protect their child or children. School officials should feel free to open-carry. There should be trained individuals, whether it is a teacher or an administrator that are trained for gun incidents. Schools, who believe that an outside person should protect them, should hire a resource officer. Resource officers should be placed in every Elementary, Middle and High School over the continental United States. Colleges should look into having an officer in every building on their campuses. Metal detectors come next; they would catch potential threats before they intentionally hurt anyone. Lastly, for all of this to happen the number one step towards gun safety would be teaching about gun safety. Teaching students and staff members about gun safety would possibly lower the rate of gun violence in school. Gun safety in the school system should be promoted.

Gun control is a good thing and beneficial for the society. Gun control law reduces the crime rate, reduces number of suicide deaths, reduces the number of less mass shootings, and reduces the accidental gun deaths. For example, “Both international and national multivariate analyses show that gun control legislation reduces overall fatalities related to firearms. This correlation is true for Canada and Australia, which adopted and maintained stricter gun control laws” (90). If you take away the guns, there is nothing that you need to defend yourself from gun violence and therefore without guns, it will be more peaceful. On the other hand, guns are essential for: formers who live near the forest (to protect themselves from wild animals) professional

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, firearms were used in about 106,000 deaths. They could be used in defense, or they could harm and kill. Guns in an educational environment will lead crime and school shootings. There are way too many school shootings. There were 64 school shootings in 2015, according to a dedicated campaign group set up in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Connecticut in 2012. Guns should not be allowed in schools. They must be carried around by authorized personnel and not teachers nor students who want to be heros. Having a gun in an educational environment can intimate other students and prevents them from learning well at school. They could be used for protection but as statistics show, they are mostly misapplied and used in violence. If students get in an argument, one of them could easily pull out a gun and

Since 1992, 387 school shootings have occurred. In addition, 323 students have died in documented shootings over the past 15 years. 323 innocent lives were taken. 323 hearts were stolen from families. 323 futures of America disappeared forever, and school violence rates have only been climbing. Since 2012, school crimes have risen 52 dead students per 1000 students. Children five to fourteen are five times more likely to be murdered in the U.S. and the facts are here to prove it. 28 children brutally murdered at Sandy Hook in 2012, and all because they had no defense. Virginia Tech had 33 fatalities in 2007, and they are University’s with security. The question has been asked, what should we do about these incidents to stop them from happening again? Should we make all firearms illegal? That wouldn’t help, guns would still be on the streets, just like drugs. Should we barricade schools and not permit anyone to enter or leave during school? Then we ask, what if the shooter is inside? How would people get out, and how would the police get in? So still, the question is asked, what would be the fastest and safest method to protect America’s children? One solid answer would be arming teachers and school employees. If we did this, there would be an immediate response in case of emergency, and school predators would be more intimidated to enter school grounds