Guns in America's Schools

Guns in America’s Schools
Bang! Another child dies, not because of illness or accident, but because a fellow classmate was able to obtain a gun. The gun was brought to school, fired, and death resulted. Now, a family is without their daughter, their sister, and their friend. This scenario happens too often in the United States. America’s youth is unable to cope with difficulties in their lives and subsequently they are able to acquire a firearm and shoot fellow students in schools across the country. If students were unable to obtain a firearm via stricter gun control laws, then the school shootings would seize to happen. However, in the present day United States, people seem to be able to obtain a firearm easier than obtaining their lost luggage at an airport.
Handguns and other firearms carried into schools provide opportunity for disaster. Florida state criminologist Gary Kleck estimates that sixteen thousand to seventeen thousand children carry guns to school d...