School Shootings Essay

Boom! Another child dies, not because of a sickness or   an accident, but because a fellow classmate was able to obtain a gun. The gun was brought to school, fired, and death resulted. Now, a family is without their daughter or son, their sister or brother, and their friend. This scenario happens too often in the United States. America’s youth is unable to cope with difficulties in their lives and subsequently they are able to acquire a firearm and shoot fellow classmates in schools across the country. If students were unable to obtain a firearm due to stricter gun control laws, then the school shootings would seize to happen. However, in the present day United States, people seem to be able to obtain a firearm easier than obtaining a car on a car lot.
Every day eight American children and teenagers die from gun violence. Which totals up to more than 29,00 American children and teens dying each year just in the United States alone. Handguns and other fire arms carried into schools across the country are just waiting to end in disaster. School shootings increase every decade since the 1960s. According to the U.S. Secret Service and Department of Education, there were four targeted school shootings in the 1970s, five in the 1980s, twenty-eight in the 1990s, and according to the article “Tragedy and the Meaning of School Shootings” as of June 1, 2010 there has been twenty-five so far in the 2000s. “Warnick, Bryan, Johnson, A. Benjamin, Rocha, Samuel, 2010” If only there was stricter gun control had been implemented and enforced. I mean after all these shootings happen because of a child being able to obtain a firearm.
Twenty-three students were killed from school shootings in the year 1999. Probably the most publicized school shooting during that year was the devastation that occurred at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. On April 20, 1999, two boys opened fire on their own high school, killing thirteen people and injuring twenty-five others. After...