Safe School Shootings

School: is it Safe?
Schools are supposed to be a safe environment for students to learn and thrive, not an environment of constant alertness and anxiousness. Families should not feel nervous or apprehensive to send their children to school because they are not sure of their safe return home. Because of how common school shootings are, these adjectives that I used in the previous sentences are familiar to many families across this country. A school shooter has one purpose and one purpose only: to shoot as many people as he/she can. With the growing rate of suburban school shootings, it is the school security’s responsibility to keep students safe and out of harm’s way. School shootings are becoming more prevalent in today’s society because
Duplechain and Morris say that “Bullying and school shootings are directly linked to each other” (Duplechain and Morris 146). Bullying is what amplifies school shootings, it is the ammunition that triggers the school shooter to break. Duplechain and Morris also state that “School personnel too often accept that children get teased and bullied everyday..”(Duplechain and Morris 146). Most kids are being profusely bullied everyday and we don’t even know because they are quiet about what is happening to them. The kids that are quiet about being seriously bullied suffer from depression and even worse, suicide. If you are a kid who is being bullied and are like me, you told your parents right away. After I told my parents they told the principal and the whole situation was solved. But then there are those very small minut few individuals who take it a little too far. The school shooters. Most of the time a school shooter suspect has been terribly teased and tormented for a very long time and has been holding his/her anger in. When the shooter comes to shoot up the school his/her targets are those people who bullied him all that time. Duplechain and Morris state, “In every school shooting, boys targeted girls who rejected them, boys who called them gay or otherwise belittled them and other students at the top of the hierarchy-white, wealthy, and athletic-and then shot down other students in the effort to reinstate their injured masculinity” (Duplechain and Morris). Especially for young men, appearing masculine and strong is important, when that is derided everyday it really gets into the person being bullied skin. People, especially kids and adolescents, do not truly understand how much words can hurt someone unless they are the ones being hurt. I know from personal experience that just a few simple words can make you feel lonely or not wanted.