Addressing the issue

Last Wednesday, 17 students lost their lives to another school shooting. While the event immediately affected the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students here felt the effect. Or rather, they knew they should feel affected. Students today have witnessed many shootings; so many, in fact, students like junior Parker Brown believe they have been desensitized to mass shootings. ...

For over 20 years, there has been an increasing trend of mass shootings in the United States. In a land that stands for freedom, peace, and bravery, we have allowed such vicious attacks on innocent people to happen over and over and over. While we may not have fought a physical war on our soil in a great deal of time, as Americans, we have been fighting against mass shootings.   This all start...

A single gunshot. Screaming. Footsteps. A school on lockdown. Somewhere in the building, crying. A teacher's hand covers the mouth of a girl who can't find it in herself to contain the fear as the class listens to see if the intruder is near. When a parent sends their child to school in the morning, they expect to see them again at dinner time. Never should a parent panic as they try to remember wh...

17 dead. 3 teachers. 14 students. All of them with families, friends, futures. All of them dead. And as I scroll down my Twitter feed, seeing this list of 17 names over and over and over again, I can’t help but wonder, why not me? There’s no reason that that shooting didn’t happen at my high school, that these 17 people weren’t my friends, my teachers. There’s nothing ...

Some pro gamers can make 10 moves in a single second, on average a person can type 20 words per minute, an AR 15 is capable of firing 600 rounds per minute; all of which are things an eighteen year old can legally do, but clearly one is of much more destruction - and no, I am not talking about video game violence among our youth. I am talking about the repeal of an Obama-era regulation whose a...

When I heard there was a shooting at Parkland high school, my mind immediately went to my friend who lives in Orlando and my heart started to pound in my chest. Shortly after, I found out that the shooting did not take place at her high school. What was immediate relief quickly turned to immense anger. She could have died, she could have been one of the 17, all because of a gun. A gun that, if regula...

We are almost two months into 2018 and there have been 17 school shootings in the U.S. alone; that number may be up by now and I would not be surprised. There is no reason for any student or person to be able to carry a gun with them while on a school campus unless you are a security guard. Young students are getting shot and killed left and right. They may not be from here or go to our school, ...