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School Shooting Research Paper

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Through the last couple of years, there have been over 400 people shot and dead in over 200 school shootings. Now just a few days ago the Governor of Florida, along with budget committees and part of the public attended a press conference that was held at Miami-Dade police headquarters in Doral, Florida. During this press conference gun control bills, programs to arm teachers and laws were discussed. There were many proposals made that my family and I would not agree with.The aim of this paper is to speak of the effects of having new legislation in the U.S. and the proposals made during the press conference. This paper will also touch on my opinion along with my family’s and how we can solve gun control in America. To begin with, …show more content…

Linda Schulman, the mother of Scott Beigel, a geography teacher that was killed during the last major school shooting, told lawmakers her son had become a teacher to teach, not “to be a law enforcement officer.” “If teachers were allowed to carry weapons in school, it could easily cause more chaos and fatalities,” she added. And she's not the only one who agrees on this.Most school shootings happen from inside the school such as threw staff or people who have a connection with the staff. For this reason, if teachers were allowed to have concealed weapons, it would cause havoc in schools and might increase problems instead of decreasing …show more content…

A partial amount of my family would agree with me meanwhile another amount strongly disagrees. The majority of people who begin school shootings are in a condition or is not getting help but gun control laws are not reducing crimes committed with them but gun ownership is. Instead of completely banning guns or concealed weapons from anybody who has no reason to have a gun they should restrict it from people who are not capable of the responsibility of carrying a concealed weapon. In order to buy a gun, it should be mandatory to provide a medical record signed by a doctor along with their identification and if the medical record shows any signs in which might show that this person is incapable of the weapon, they should not allow them to buy it. Weapons are not only used for bad but are used by people across the world for many things. Gun control laws are against the right to self-defense and the feeling of safety along the right to own guns for recreational

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