School Shootings

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Students and teachers often think that school shootings could never occur in their school, but that is far from true. School shootings can happen anywhere. They keep happening with acceleration, which makes it more likely that it could happen at any school. Anyone who lives anywhere could shoot up a school, regardless of size. I believe the only way to slow school shootings from happening as often is to protect our schools with more security.
Several people have observed the lack of security that schools possess. When thinking about our own security right here in Marion, and looking at the school layout, the buildings are scattered. We have five different buildings to our school. We have security cameras, but we often do not think anything
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Students, teachers, families, the community, the state, and even the nation, are affected by school shootings. The more school shootings that occur bring a panic to the whole nation on which school will be the next target. Students, teachers, and other school faculty who have gone through this violent act, end up scarred. Teachers lose students who they have grown close to. Students lose friends that they have made over the years. These people who have died in the shooting can cause heartache and other problems for the people who survived this horrible act. School shootings cause the students who survive to have mental health problems, depression, suicidal thoughts, and several more issues depending on how the student handles this traumatic event. The parents of the students and teachers who died during this event are other people who are affected by this occurrence. School shootings affect these people because even though they were not there at the time of the event, and did not encounter everything that the students and faculty did, their families will always be affected by this act of vengeance. Other people who could be affected by these school shootings would be people in the community, the state, and even the whole nation. The community is devastated by this kind of tragedy because they fear that something might happen again. They most likely never thought that a mass shooting could happen at their school because nobody expects something like this to occur in their community. They often question what went wrong and what they can do to prevent something like this from happening again. The state and nation are affected because when this type of occurrence happens in one town, it is blasted all over the news and people from across the nation hear about this traumatic event. People in the nation then feel for that community and those families that were affected by this