Are School Shootings Becoming a Hobby?

Ja' Tyra Knight
Sep 8, 2018 · 3 min read
Photo: Fox 4 News

Imagine being in a class at your school or college and seconds into the lesson a series of gunshots ring out. The first thing you do is panic and run, or even hit the ground right? Students all over the world are experiencing this on a daily. It could be our brothers, our sisters, our children, or even ourselves! In today’s world, it seems as if school shootings are becoming a hobby. Not only are people getting severely injured, but they are being murdered in these monstrous shootings. I remember being in high school and practicing the drills that students should take if there was an intruder. This matter has become a nightmare that students are now living in reality. Places that are designed for many to get their education being turned into a gun range, due to one’s personal issues.

On February 14, 2018, at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida seventeen students and staff members were killed, leaving seventeen more injured during a school shooting. According to (www.cbsnews.com/feature/parkland-florida-school-shooting/) the gunman Nikolas Cruz was a former student at Stoneman High School, he says that he has an evil voice in his head. What kind of excuse is that? Later they realized that Cruz’s mom had a criminal history, which could have amped this shooting. I am a firm believer in making choices on my own. My very own mother has a criminal background and I do not patrol around shooting up schools, just for fun.

Recently in May of 2018, there was a school shooting reported in Texas. At Sante Fe High School ten students and staff members were killed and ten were injured. This time the gunman, Dimitrios Pagourtzis was attending the school as he committed the shooting. He made it clear that he spared people he liked so that his story could be told. (www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/us/texas-school-shooting/index.html) Which increases my thought that these school shootings are indeed becoming a hobby. How could one feel immoral enough to kill and harm others intentionally? If it is true that both of the students’ emotions got the best of them, then what could stop this, what could individuals do to cease their reactions?

If students like those who have taken parts in a school shooting accept their emotions, then shootings would be less frequent. In fact, the school shootings would not be seen as hobbies. Most of the times when school shootings happen officials find out that what made the gunman take his loaded deadly weapon and commit such crucial crime may have been personal. When we do not accept our emotions, they take control and run the show. What these kids need to realize is that no emotion that we feel should provoke us to take someone else life. We are not our emotions!

All in all, these shootings have taken a toll on several families. The fear that parents may feel when sending their children off to school, should not be present. There should not have to be a repeating story in the newspapers, on the news, or even on social media about a massacre school shooting. The world has to take a turn for the better. To hear about the death of our classmates, family members, and teachers is sickening. Stop the school shootings, they are becoming hobbies when in reality they are CRIMES.

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