Its been a couple of years now since President Obama talked about his plan to prevent "Gun Violence." I personally think that his plan is good to start off with but needs to be more aggressive and maybe that way we can prevent more gun shootings in schools and places in general. One of is goals was for schools to be more safe but I think the plan is turning out as well. There has been more than 40 school shooting since 2011, 40 is a big number almost averaging to have a school shooting every month. Now remember we are just talking about school shooting we are not counting other shooting in general meaning that one school shooting per month sounds crazy.
I'm sure that parents are the most concerned about but there's also people like me that are not parents and go to school and have our loved ones that go to school. The most recent school shooting that we heard about was about Washington State high school that occur this past Friday. Taking the lives of three 14-year old kids including the shooter and leaving three students hospitalized. In this particular shooting the targets were students close to the shooter two of them being his cousins and the other three close friends. A article about the shooting in CNN it lets us know that the shooter had txt all five victims to the same lunch table making us think that he had a plan about how he was going to shot at them. It's sad to hear about this type of news like in this case taking away three lives, and leaving two in critical condition and one progressing. By the teenaged student having a gun in school campus meaning that the schools are still not safe and that President Obama's plan about stopping gun violence need to be addressed more carefully to find ways of preventing this type of events.
After reading an article in the website Great Schools titled "How can we stop gun violence?" it made me realize that one way of avoiding gun violence in schools could be having a class in school that has information about violence. Teaching students how to talk about their problems and knowing how to "control their emotions". Starting by teaching students since elementary school having a 30-1 hour information talk about violence, then in middle school taking one class per semester. In High School making the class as a requirement in order to graduate from high school having taken at least two semester of this program. I know that having this program and talking to students since elementary might sound a little crazy but I think its a good idea to start teaching them the basic from a younger age that way they get the idea and be more familiar with.
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The start of this post is really good and intriguing. I completely agree that there should be more control in our gun regulations. The article is interesting but it could also use a lot of sources. The part where is talking about the amount of school shootings this year would have credibility if we could see a source. Also include what were Obama's plans to prevent gun violence. Including the most recent school shooting in your article was a good idea since it was something shown on national news and easy to make a connection to it but I feel that it focused only on that event and nothing else. By the middle of the article the point was kind of lost and it turned into a story about a school shooting and not so much about gun control. Also there's a lot of grammatical errors that makes it a bit hard to read. Other than that I started out okay but it could have used a couple of more sources and more explanation and focus of the main point.
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