By: Natalie Duran
Since the creation of the internet, the world has gotten much more connected with one another. We are more aware of things that would’ve been hard for us to know 60 to 80 years ago. We are now aware of more school shootings and incidents around not only the USA but the whole world ever since March 11, 1989 (the creation of the world wide web).
According to CNN, so far in 2019, there's been 22 school shootings in the USA. Maybe you were expecting more, but there have been so many issues concerning gun violence on the internet, that it’s considered to be a “new norm.”
The topic of guns has always been more of adult talk, that is until victims of school shootings got involved (Parkland survivors, etc), due to the lack of gun violence prevention. They have stood up for what they believed in and now there’s kids all around the nation advocating for gun violence.
The spark to that effect started with Columbine in 1999. History.com Editor‘s “Columbine Shooting” says it was after two teens went and killed 13 teenagers. Conversation renewed as more school shootings took place in the decades to come.
The shootings in Connecticut, and Florida, for instance, have made constituting robust gun laws or not, a “hot topic” and debate between the 2nd amendment.
And although The Washington Post reports that school shootings represent only a tiny fraction of the gun violence epidemic that’s happening in the USA, it doesn’t stop people from this tiny fraction to use their voices and be heard.
But there’s a difference between the type of deaths due to firearms that have caused these changes. School shootings specifically are when a person fires at an educational institution and kills or injures at least one person on the school grounds - whether it’s at an elementary, middle, high school, college, or university.
The following are a few massacres that have made an impact on gun control & school safety:
On April 20, 1999, one of the USA’s worst school shootings occurred in Littleton, Colorado at Columbine Highschool.
According to History.com Editor, this was the beginning of a prompted national debate on gun control and school safety. Like momentarily mentioned before, two teens went on a shooting
Since the creation of the internet, the world has gotten much more connected with one another. We are more aware of things that would’ve been hard for us to know 60 to 80 years ago. We are now aware of more school shootings and incidents around not only the USA but the whole world ever since March 11, 1989 (the creation of the world wide web).
According to CNN, so far in 2019, there's been 22 school shootings in the USA. Maybe you were expecting more, but there have been so many issues concerning gun violence on the internet, that it’s considered to be a “new norm.”
The topic of guns has always been more of adult talk, that is until victims of school shootings got involved (Parkland survivors, etc), due to the lack of gun violence prevention. They have stood up for what they believed in and now there’s kids all around the nation advocating for gun violence.
The spark to that effect started with Columbine in 1999. History.com Editor‘s “Columbine Shooting” says it was after two teens went and killed 13 teenagers. Conversation renewed as more school shootings took place in the decades to come.
The shootings in Connecticut, and Florida, for instance, have made constituting robust gun laws or not, a “hot topic” and debate between the 2nd amendment.
And although The Washington Post reports that school shootings represent only a tiny fraction of the gun violence epidemic that’s happening in the USA, it doesn’t stop people from this tiny fraction to use their voices and be heard.
But there’s a difference between the type of deaths due to firearms that have caused these changes. School shootings specifically are when a person fires at an educational institution and kills or injures at least one person on the school grounds - whether it’s at an elementary, middle, high school, college, or university.
The following are a few massacres that have made an impact on gun control & school safety:
On April 20, 1999, one of the USA’s worst school shootings occurred in Littleton, Colorado at Columbine Highschool.
According to History.com Editor, this was the beginning of a prompted national debate on gun control and school safety. Like momentarily mentioned before, two teens went on a shooting