Monday, April 29, 2013

School shooting's continuing to occur

About 30 minutes ago I just heard the news of a student who pulled out a gun in his classroom and attempted suicide in the classroom when shooting himself.  The investigation is going on currently trying to find out why this student decided to act upon himself inside a classroom and his intentions around it. The only news they have gathered so far is that the student was not trying to cause any harm to anybody else besides himself as the students all gathered in a separate room crying. The kid is at a hospital currently in critical condition where they are trying to keep him alive from this shooting. There are several problems involved in this case one being gun control that has been a major issue in the United States. The U.S. has more deaths by shootings than any other country in the world and this is partly because of the easy access kids have to guns. President Obama and others are trying to make changes to prevent these tragedies from occurring by making the gun laws more strict in a push to make citizens feel more safe. The other issue raised here besides gun control is the mental health of Americans. Many citizens in this country have mental health problems, but are not given the correct treatment to help them deal with them, which can lead to them acting out making them threats to society. In part with health care, it should include mental health as well because it as just as much as a problem as the regular situations health care covers. With these mental health problems involved in many U.S. citizens it is causing them to have horrible thoughts making them feel self-conscious, leading them to do horrible things like this and attempting suicide just like this kid did. President Obama has a lot of problems on had and he needs to make a strong push to stop tragedies from helping and solve the issues of gun control and health care.

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