The Debate on School Shootings in the United States
A summary of some of the key ideas and arguments made in recency on gun control and school shootings.
On February 14, 2018, the United States was hit by yet another school shooting, in Florida this time.
The horrific scene of students running from their school in Parkland was seen in news outlets. The Parkland shooting resulted in the killing of 17 people, and is regarded as the deadliest since the Sandy Hook shooting back in 2013, which had resulted in the death of 26 people. The Parkland shooting is also the 18th school shooting in 2018 alone. Since 2013, there have been about 300 of them, making the United States the country with the most school shootings in the world.
The images of stand-offs and barricaded schools and people getting killed and injured in schools is, thus, an all too familiar scene in the United States. Americans disagree on how to address school shootings because the subject of gun control, which is usually ignited by school shootings, is a controversial subject.
Conservatives and pro-gun groups argue that guns are not the real cause of school shootings. Anti-gun groups and politicians, on the other hand, argue that guns should be controlled to address school shootings. Here, we take a look at the liberal and conservative views on the causes and effects of…
