School Security Doesn’t Have to be Scary or Ugly
As a high schooler, I was studying in an age after the school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. At the time this was shocking; a fluke. Very few people believed school shootings would become a social contagion. According to writers for Security.org, Aliza Vigderman and Gabe Turner, on July 6, 2022, there have been 304 school shooting; with little end in sight. For many conservatives, there is a simple answer; to protect America’s most precious treasure (children), as well as you would Fort Knox and its gold. Some people are concerned with schools becoming militarized zones. They believe schools should appear welcoming and not a prison. This is an obsolete argument with new technology available. In the article by Vigderman and Turner, A Timeline of School Shootings Since Columbine, “According to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a publication of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), a total of 118 active shooter incidents have b