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Argumentative Essay: Gun Violence In Schools

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Only four months into the calendar year of two-thousand-eighteen, and there have already been eighteen school shootings where someone was hurt or killed. That averages out to 1.4 shootings a week. “If only educators had a gun…” Staunch gun rights advocates across America continuously promote this scenario to lobby feverishly for the training and arming of school faculty. The issue of gun violence in schools has been a pressing issue on the forefront of national politics in the past few years. Although our elected United States President, Donald Trump argues that guns in the hands of teachers could prove to be beneficial, arming educators has the potential to promote a war zone, which inevitably could stimulate more violence; and allowing teachers to carry firearms could discourage …show more content…

Schools are generally considered a safe place and have been for years. Not only safe from violence, but safe to express thoughts and opinions without fear of retaliation or ridicule. Allowing firearms into an environment such as this, will most assuredly make schools feel more like a war zone, not a safe zone. It will feel more like a prison, not a school. Students will become silent with their thoughts, ideas, and opinions and their opportunity for mindful growth will decrease. Teachers are supposed to be counselors and advisors – safe people. Allowing educators to carry guns makes them the appointed defenders of our schools. But what if the principal (or teacher) doesn't act quickly enough? What if the teacher does not believe in pulling a gun? Or couldn't find the key to the locked drawer containing the gun? Perhaps the teacher wasn't in the building when a threat presented itself? There now becomes a culpable non-defender, someone who does not do his or her duty and now another target for finger-pointing, excuse-making, lawsuits, or

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