School Shooting and Gun Control in America

When is enough, enough? 

The Amendment Right to Bear Arms in the USA was created to prevent the new Federal Government (1789) from disarming the state militias and ousting them with a Federal standing army. 

So far, in 2018, there have been 18 U.S. school shootings. Trump's plan is to force some teachers to be armed with guns in classrooms to prevent further occurrences such as the shooting in Florida High School. Why is the solution to gun problems to arm more people with guns? Who's to say the teachers will be more sensible with guns than anyone else?

As a student I would feel more unsafe going into school with an armed teacher than the fear of a school shooting. Teachers would have to have gun training meaning more people would learn how to wield a gun. Some blame the use of guns as a solution to everything on video games. Video games such as Call of Duty often teach children with vulnerable minds that killing more people will advance them in their game so some believe they carry this idea into life. 

Barack Obama has also made his opinion clear on these latest events: “Young people have helped lead all our great movements. How inspiring to see it again in so many smart, fearless students standing up for their right to be safe; marching and organising to remake the world as it should be. We’ve been waiting for you. And we’ve got your backs.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-43149707/school-shooting-survivor-s-tearful-plea

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