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When I think about gun violence in school, I feel very scared and insecure because I know something like that could happen at our school.

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i always thought something like that couldn’t EVER happen, until middle school when i was able to understand situations more clearly, is when i realized that gun violence is a daily dangerous thing. Especially when i understood what happened in Sandy Hook.

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feels unsafe
memories of sandy-hook shooting comes up when there’s a school shooting

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the thought of Gun Violence in schools is scary to take in consideration, and is extremely upsetting to hear about it being mentioned across the nation due to how inhumane the action is carried out

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yes, there’s always gun violence in this city. that’s why people have to be attentive to their surroundings.

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I realized how dangerous it was in freshman year because most of the school shootings I had heard of took place in highschool and it makes me very nervous when people pull the fire alarm because I remember a case of a guy pulling it just to round people up.

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I feel like implementing metal detectors that can detect certain metals in guns, it would help the security know ahead of time that someone has a gun, and on top of that it’d be more safe if we did have it

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The threat of school shootings instills fear into me as its something that no one ever thinks about or truly takes into reflection because of how much many tend to avoid the subject

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I didn’t realize and fully understand about school shooting until I was in middle school. The situation that really made me realize school shooting were dangerous is the Florida shooting that happen on February 14. It honestly made me fear to go to school and scared.

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I realized that school shootings were a danger and threat when I arrived the US at the age of 13.  I felt a little scared about it because I was not used to see these kind of dangers in a school environment.

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my first actual lockdown was in first grade, this couple was having a fight on our playground and one of them pulled out a knife; but the severity and actuality of school shootings didn’t register with me until the fourth grade. there wasn’t an active shooter or anything but that was the first time a teacher of mine really went in-depth with the lockdown and actually took it seriously, all my previous teachers played down the likelihood and danger it possesses, but i remember being terrified as she answered our questions and thinking to myself like “wow, this is real? this could happen? why would someone do that?” and so that moment will always stick with me.

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I realized they were dangerous when I saw on tv of different shootings that occurred . I then saw that guns are a very dangerous thing if given to the wrong people.

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Yea I think about it on what would I do if it happened at my school. And more of procedures I would take if it were to happen.

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I would like to see just less dangerous weapons being handed out to people

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Security, some kind of assurance that attending school can be a safe place to learn. There should be even more protection and security in elementary schools not just for when there’s shootings but to protect kids from sex trafficking

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School shootings are something that feels too tragic, too scary to happen. As a child, i felt more safe at school than i did at home. With the rise of gun violence in our community, this nightmare feels more and more real. We need to do anything and everything necessary to protect our children.

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I come from a country where there is gun violence outside, but never at school. I’ve always consider school as one of the safest places to be. Until I came to this country, where gun violence is a reality and now is being consider a normality. As a student I come everyday with fear that something horrible involving guns would happen here. As a sister it was devastating so see my brother cry because of the fear when he find out about the recent tragedy. I wish my brother wouldn’t have to go to school with the fear of not coming back home