The media puts this image in children’s heads that there is something fun about having a gun and also that it gives you power and you can control people with it. This is most definitely the wrong message to give out to children, and with gun education in schools students can be taught the practicality of gun use. Similarly to being taught the reality, being taught gun education in schools disappears the glamour surrounding children are exposed to and brings forth the consequences of gun use and abuse. By removing curiosity children have in guns we will see a decrease in the misuse of firearms and media influence as well as stronger boundaries in gun use. Secondly, by having
Although many people are totally against children playing with an imitation of a deadly weapon, I however feel it is necessary to inform the minds of our future on the proper use of guns, what happens when a gun is misused, and also, how to safely store a registered gun, to prevent it from getting into the wrong hands. Guns are beneficial for many different reasons. The proper use and reason of owning a gun is important to teach children. Guns can be used in hunting, to feed a family or for the sport of game; guns are used in war to protect and serve the people of the country from terrorist; guns are also beneficial to have for safety in the home. If children are never taught how to properly use a weapon, it can turn into a dangerous tool.
People who own guns need to keep them put away and out of the reach of children. Parents cannot think that because they taught their children all about guns that it is ok to keep the guns accessible to all. Parents needs to understand themselves how much peer pressure a child gets and what peer pressure will cause someone to do something they knew was wrong, but they still wanted to be in the cool bunch of kids. Or the only way someone will like me is if I pretend to shoot my best friend. So truly it is about the training of guns not the
Staff received identification badges and school doors began to be locked during the day… [and that] the school campus was cut off from the surrounding area by a fence (Shootings 2012).” What they failed to realize is that these security measures will mean almost nothing to a shooter. A door could be easily shot off the hinges and the lock on the door could easily be shot off, and the fence they put up could easily be cut or climbed over. Schools should also make sure to not have a “Gun Free Zone” sign in front of the school, because in most cases the most common places for shootings to occur are in places where there are those signs. This is due to the fact that anyone who is thinking of shooting the school will know that everyone there is defenseless. The shooter will decide to go to the school with the sign rather than the
Since the beginning of this country the bearing of arms has been a right for the American people for many reasons, one of them being protection, and without them victims of shootings would never have any defense to protect themselves. There are many reasons that our forefathers decided that the right to bear arms is an essential right, but there are other thoughts on why it should not be a right, how the limit of them has been breached and why it’s time to take guns away. Guns have always been a part of my life, my dad hunts to provide food, I shoot them for fun as an activity and my family has them as protection. Taking away my right to have them is like taking my need for safety away. This is not a topic that should be up for debate in my personal opinion.
I agree with Jenkins when he says children learn the difference between real shootings and video game death. We grow up playing pretend, which allows us to express ourselves in a way we can always do in the real world. For example, if a teenager gets angry and says they are going to murder someone, you would worry about their mental health. But if the same teenager came home after a long day of school and played a shooting game, everything would be fine. Grossman says that the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to video games if they teach children to kill, but does any game really teach you to take someone's life?
Random searches for students should be enforced to make the students aware that they could be caught with a weapon at any time. Teachers having a closer connection to each individual student should make the student feel more of a bond with their superiors making it easier for them to express their problems and issues to prevent any further altercations. All of these factors could be used in the prevention of gun violence in schools. After all of my reading and researching I have a new outlook on the issue of gun control and all of the factors that are involved with it. The statistics are scary, and even more shocking is the reality of the violence just knowing that at anytime and anyplace you can be in the middle of gun violence or even a victim.
If a teacher had a gun it would have to be hidden somewhere, but not in a locked place for quick access if someone were to open fire. Children, especially small children are very mischievous, if a child were to get the gun it could go off and harm another person. The only way to eliminate this problem would be to put the gun in a locked place and if a gunman came in, a teacher would most likely not be able to unlock the safe to get the gun out to protect the students. Teachers are very important people and are looked upon very highly. In my opinion they have the most important job which is educating others.
The students who are yet to be caught will learn from the mistakes of other students and will stop. To increase the effect of locker checks, they should be done with security guards and dogs. Security guards at school increase security and security dogs help find drugs with their noses. School is a place to learn, not a place to bring malicious substances, electronics and etc. So, only learning material should be brought to school.
The possibility of being able to wield the gun at a time of attack, may or may not overcome the risk of owning one in the first place. The right to own a gun to defend one’s self, or family, may not outweigh the risk The mass murders committed in the past few years, have been in very public areas, where one does not normally carry a weapon, for self-defense or otherwise. Therein defeats the main purpose of owning one. The school shootings, such as one of the most recent, Sandy Hook Elementary School puts the second most blame, on the fact that such an unstable person was able to purchase not only multiple, but also such powerful weapons, legally(Gun Control, 2013). There will never be a time that a civilian will need the use of an automatic weapon.