It is sad that the biggest fear
this generation lives in, is ourselves and our peers. Here we are sitting in
school, a place that is supposed to be safe, but we don’t feel safe. Why is
that? It is because of everything that has been happening around us. From
shootings, to the recent stabbings, to the threat at my own school, how can we
feel safe? A child will less likely learn in fear and it is sad that this is
what the world has come to.
In April of 1999, one of the
biggest school shootings of history and of its time had occurred. Nothing of
this capacity had ever occurred before, until the shootings and Columbine High
School. Two seniors assembled an arsenal of guns and weapons and attacked the
school, killing 12 students, one teacher, and injuring 24 others, before taking
their own lives. This horrible tragedy left the nation scared and afraid; they
did not know how to handle this. Nowadays, it feels like tragedies happen all
the time of school
About a year and a half ago, the
country was devastated with the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. That
December day, 26 people were shot, of which six were adults, and the remaining
20, were students. A man with a gun penetrated the school and destroyed lives
forever. Listening to the police calls from that day hearing teachers in sheer
terror is extremely heart wrenching. Listening to parents’ reminisce on their
young kids who can never grow up, will make any one cry. These young children,
so full of potential and so full of life, just disappeared from the world in a
second. This is all because of one man with a gun who had the bright idea of
entering a school on a rampage.
Just this week, there was a 16
year old boy who went on not a shooting rampage, but a stabbing one. He stabbed
20 kids at Franklin Regional Senior High School. When kids were entering the
school, he stood there and stabbed or slashed anyone who got in his way. Though
it lasted five minutes, he injured so many people and left many in fear.
It seems like these days all we
do is live in fear. It has become a part of our society to go to school in fear
that something may happen. In the past kids had drills for bomb threats due to
war and weather related drills and fire drills. Now students are preparing for
attacks from their own peers or people who could come into the school and cause
devastation. That sense of freedom and openness where the doors were open and
school was a safe haven has disappeared and remerged as an era of locked doors
and fear. It is sad to see this is where society has led to and we must hope
for change.
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