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Manual to Stop Acve Shooter’s
On April 16, 2007 the deadliest shooting rampage in the U.S. history occur at Virginia
Tech University. Twenty-three years old Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech
campus. Shootings on school campuses are starting to become a normal thing in our society. It’s
starting to feel like every time the news is on television there’s been another shooting. The laws
in place to stop active shooters on school campuses are the gun laws and the law that prohibit
any type of weapons on any school grounds. The problem is that mass shooting on school
campuses are starting to become too familiar and we need solutions. The effect of the mass
shootings is that students are dying and will continue to die until we do something about it. We
need to come together to find more solutions to this problem. Finding solutions to the mass
shooter’s problem is not going to be easy but I think there is a few options to better the situation
which is to allow students to be armed, hire more armed security or police officers, and lastly
allowing teachers to be armed.
The biggest problem with active shooters on schools campuses is simple, students are
dying. In New York Times Dirk Vanderhart, Julie Turkewitz, and Kirk Johnson wrote “rampage
that left 10 people dead and seven wounded and turned this rural stretch of southern Oregon into
the latest American locale ravaged by a mass shooting” (Vanderhart, Turkewitz, Johnson 1).
Active shooters are becoming more common as the months go by therefore more people will
continue to die from them. Another problem with active shooters is that they are starting to turn
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people away from college because they don’t feel like school is a safe place anymore. Amy
Cohen, Debroah Azrael, and Matthew Miller found that “Mass shootings since 2011: Every 64
Days on Average” (Cohen, Azrael, Miller 1). In the same article Cohen, Azrael, and Miller also
showed “from 1982 to 2011 mass shootings occurred every 172 days” (Cohen, Azrael, and
Miller1). They are showing that mass shootings are increasing and they are unpredictable. This
problem is already very real and serious and needs a solution as soon as possible. Our economy
is also being effected from mass shootings on school campuses because kids are starting to be
afraid to attend college. Colleges are tied in our economy heavy because it’s so many of them.
