At the end of 2024, CNN revealed that the United States experienced 83 school shootings in just that year, with three of them occurring in just the first 22 days of the year. It is extremely devastating that this is the kind of world that we have to live in. […]
Tag: Gun Control
Gun violence is met with bulletproof marketing rather than change
Throughout my upbringing in the public school system, the threat of someone entering the school has been drilled into me. Procedures were laid out and practiced once a month. Every time the alarm sounded, a chill fell over the entire classroom. Silently, we would all huddle in the corner of […]
Latest mass shooting should have been preventable
It’s not a stretch to say that the deadliest shooting in the United States this year was also one of the most preventable in the country’s long history of these catastrophic events. Unfortunately, this does not come as a surprise to those who have become all too familiar with the […]
Biden takes action against gun violence: Is it enough?
This year has been one of tragedy, marked by an excess in gun violence. Many recent years have experienced similar losses, but 2023 has proven itself to be the most devastating as it breaks the record for annual mass shootings. As of right now, there have been more than 400 […]
Elementary student shoots teacher, reignites gun control debate
Earlier this month, a 6-year-old student in Newport News, Va. brought a gun to school and shot his 25-year-old teacher. Thankfully, teacher Abby Zwerner is recovering from the incident, but the boy and his family will never be the same – and honestly, neither will education. News of school shootings […]
Prosecutors in Baldwin trial misattribute blame
Actor Alec Baldwin has been charged with manslaughter after accidentally setting off a loaded gun on the set of “Rust,” killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. The film was being shot in New Mexico when Baldwin, who was both an actor and producer of the film, shot […]
Tourists to America receive warnings of violence
Violence overwhelms the United States in varying forms and with varying intentions. Gun violence in America leads to massacres in everyday places, like supermarkets and churches. Hate crimes target underrepresented communities when they are trying to get on with their lives. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, there were […]
Biden Admin ignores main cause of gun violence
America is no stranger to gun violence. With schools practicing lockdown drills, discussions of teachers carrying guns and more security roaming the halls, this fear is always on our minds. But why do we put the responsibility of protection on the schools rather than the source of the guns? This […]
Living in a generation of school shootings and little reform
Photo courtesy of Samuel King Jr, Flickr. I remember my first active shooter drill. In first grade, my teacher explained that the principal would announce a code red, and we needed to quickly hide in the corner. When I came home from school, I was eager to show my family this […]
Biden advocates for tighter gun control upon recent shooting
Photo courtesy of Maria Lysenko, Unsplash President Joe Biden was deeply affected by the Boulder, Colo. shooting attack on March 22. Stemming from the heartache of losing family members in 1973, the head of state declared immediate action to prevent more people from becoming gun violence mortalities. Victims of the […]