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Initial issue: Second Amendment gives people the right to carry guns
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American people are granted with the opportunity of having guns
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There are also horrific can cause a lot of injuries and deaths that are caused by guns
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A lot of students are injured because of school shootings. Preventing school shootings should draw people's attention.
Introduction
It seems to most people that school shooting was not a problem in the past; however, the school shooting was a problem as well in history - evil, scary and terrifying. School shootings taking place in America, in fact, start at the era when the settlers and Indian living in the country. School shooting issue should be highly regarded by us so that we can be prepared for it. There are new families and victims suffer for their whole life with the outcome of gun violence in school every year.
it is important for us to be aware that school shooting is very common in the united states.The gun violence in schools should be taken seriously by the public in order to help people in the school who suffer from mental or physical illness.
Timeline
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Did the situation get better or worse?
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School shootings have existed for a long time in America; however, the problem is still not solved until today.
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From the perspective of injuries and deaths, the problem of school shooting gets worse over time
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From the perspective of social impact, there is always attention that is paid by the society about school shootings
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The school shooting is always a concern of the general public.
Santa Fe, Texas High School Shooting
May 18, 2018
There was a sophomore baseball player who was one of the ten people who was injured by the School Shooting in the high school located in the Houston area. It was later confirmed that the Dimitrios Pagourtzis was the school shooter in Santa Fe High school and has killed ten people and injured ten people. Dimitrios Pagourtzis was convicted by the crime of murder.
According to Robert, who was one of an injured student of the incident says that “The shooter walked in the classroom tosses something in the classroom.” He mentioned before the attacker ran into the hallway, there are three loud sounds. He did not realize that he had already injured until he ran out of the building. (Dalesio).
“Republicans and Democrats tend to look at the same tragedy from very different perspectives,” Mark Jones, a Rice University political scientist, said Monday. “Democrats look at Santa Fe and their most popular answer tends to be that gun control is the correct response to keep this from happening in the future. Whereas Republicans don’t see it that way. They don’t believe gun control would have any impact or is even germane”(Samuels).
At least one student isn't at all surprised that a deadly shooting happened at her high school in Texas.
The disappointing fact is that some students in the incident are not as surprised about this school shooting because they think their school will eventually be a target of a school shooting since school shootings are everywhere in the United States nowadays.
"Paige Curry, who is 17, says ‘it's been happening everywhere’ and that she ‘always ... felt like that eventually it was going to happen here too.’ Gov. Greg Abbott says 10 people were killed and 10 more were injured Friday morning when a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School" (Dalesio).
Bath Consolidated School Shooting (First School Shooting on May 18, 1927)
Early school shooting should be an important aspect for people to explore and investigate the school shooting. On the morning of May 18, 1927, there is the deadliest school shooting happened in the United States, which the 13- year-old student, in this case, the school shooter was promoted by the low grade in the school (Dav).
Bath Consolidated School Shooting is not known as one of the earliest school shooting, but also one of the deadliest school shooting in US history. Bath Consolidated school shooting is also the first school bombing in history. (Dav)
"On the morning of May 18, 1927, the 13-year-old had been exempted from final exams and was picking flowers outside of the Bath Consolidated School when a blast ripped through the building. Vail immediately feared for her bashful 7-year-old brother, Ralph, who she later learned died in the blast, along with 44 other people. A disgruntled school board member had dynamited the building -- the worst school massacre in U.S. history” (Dav).
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Bath Consolidated School Shooting yEArs later
There was a tragedy that happened in the Bath Consolidated School back in time when the school shooting was not as common as is it now. The motive of the school shooting was a revenge on the high taxes collected from the citizen by the government in order to build a school which is located in the country area. This raised the anger of the school attacker Kehoe to place a bomb in Bath Consolidated School. This incident has later become a historical marker of the region to ensure the tragedy will not be forgotten (Leach).
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People who have experienced the Bath Consolidated School Shooting cooperate with the government in order to found a memorial of the incident. The memorial records the people who are injured and dead in the horrible incident
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"The site, James Couzens Memorial Park, features a few modest memorials commemorating the disaster, including the original cupola from the destroyed school building. Vail wants to keep the site that way and rejects a proposal pending before the township's Board of Trustees to build a memorial pavilion there" (Dav).
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Bath Consolidated School Shooting is still people's nightmare today. People who have experienced Bath Consolidated School Shooting are in their retiring age now, and they still remember clearly about the incident.
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"'It was like the 9/11 of Bath,’ said Owen McGuigan, 73, who has lived in the township for 36 years. ‘It's a very important part of (Bath) history and something that people need to know about. A lot of people living here don't even know where it happened’” (Dav).
