Hadley McGhee The School Shootings that Weren't
After Parkland, we like to think that our eyes are more so open to the horrors of school shootings. But between the Parkland shooting (2/14/18) and May 25, 2018, there were 16 more school shootings that didn't make the headlines.
While Parkland is still recent history, it is still US History. I'd like to ask, "How come we get to pick and choose which shootings get the national spotlight?" In May and June, where were our National Vigils and Marches and Headlines and Victim Rallies? To make matters worse, that May shooting was in Texas - only four hours away.
I believe that all school shootings are comparable to each other. I believe that each and every one of them should make national headlines. If we saw how many guns entered our high schools, maybe we'd finally act upon the need for gun legislation.
Personally it think that it was good thing that those shootings didn't hit the national spotlight. I feel like there is a direct correlation between the number of shootings and the coverage of shootings in media. When you see how the media covered shootings they, in a way, glorified the shooter by showing their face and their name and making a news story about them. It can give people the idea "hey thats an easy way for me to be famous." But at the same time it is important that these shooting get attention to an extent, just in a different way. In a way that is just about the incident and not "glorifying" the shooter.
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DeleteI think that if those shooting didn’t make the spotlight more people wouldn’t be aware of what is going on
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