School bus at school, Photo by: Jose Alonso (unsplash.com/istockimages)
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Nearly eleven years later, these shootings are still prominent within our schools. The most recent mass school shooting occurred on March 27th, 2023, at the Covenant, a Christian school in Nashville, TN. A twenty-eight-year-old former student “fired off 152 rounds,” per CNN, before fatally shooting three children and three adults. The police were within the perimeter of the building and proceeded inside, going at full speed. The mass murderer was in the school for a whole 14 minutes before the officers found and killed them. This might sound like a long time but it’s actually pretty fast in comparison to past school shootings. So maybe there has been improvement within the attempts to prevent school shootings from happening. However, not enough has been done since this is still occurring nearly eleven years later at an elementary school as well. This has to be terrifying to parents of young children to witness this continuously happen across the country not guaranteed that their child will be safe at school. It’s unfortunate, the idea that anything like this could happen at a school, where most people feel is one of the safest places that a child can be in.
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