School Stabbing in Pennsylvania

What seemed like the safest place on earth is now turning into a place where people’s lives are now starting to be in danger.  School shooting and stabbings are starting to happen even more and more in today’s world, with students being able to access weapons much easier than before.  Yet another school, just yesterday in Pennsylvania, a student brought two kitchen knives to school and stabbed a total of 21 students on a rampage.  The question keeps being asked ‘what can we do to stop this from happening?’ and the answer may be frightening.  Is there anything that can truly be done to stop this from happening, or even limit them?  Perhaps several precautions can be made to help stop school shooters and stabbers, but they can never exactly be stopped.

Just a normal 16 year old boy, on a normal Wednesday morning at Franklin Regional Senior High School in Pennsylvania, right outside of Pittsburg.  The hallways were crowded, as usual, and everyone was going about their daily routine.  It was then that people started noticing a kid walking around stabbing whoever was in his way.  The kid had stabbed 20 people, along with a security worker at the school, before the assistant principal tackled the student to the ground.  It was in the middle of the stabbing when a `student noticed what was going on, and pulled the fire alarm to make sure all students evacuated the building as soon as possible.  Many students said they didn’t know what was going on but there were students rushing out of the school from everywhere and there were a few that came out several minutes later bleeding.  It was then that teaches asked a few students to take off their sweatshirts and used them to stop the blood flow.  There are currently five students who are considered to be in critical condition, but are expected to live.

How can there occurrences be prevented many ask?  There are several precautions that can be taken at schools, however they may be blowing things way out of proportion.  We want kids to feel safe at school, not like they’re in some sort of prison.  Some things schools could do to help stop there tragedies from happening is arming the teachers with Tasers incase of an emergency or hiring a full time on duty police officer to be at school at all times.  These things are going to keep happening and there needs to be ways to prevent them from happening sooner rather than later.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/justice/pennsylvania-school-stabbing/

Castillo, Mariano, Pamela Brown, Paul Courson Reported from Murrysville, Mariano Castillo, Ben Brumfield Wrote the Story in Atlanta. Chelsea Carter, Miguel Marquez, Greg Botelho, Ashley Fantz, Dana Ford, Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy, Ronni Berke, Justin Lear, Allison Malloy, Stephanie Gallman, Leigh Remizowski, Debra Goldschmidt, and Shimon Prokupecz. "After Pennsylvania School Stabbing, Authorities and Community Ask: 'Why?'" CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.