Our Issue: Gun violence in schools
Our Group members: Taylor, Reed, Will, Logan, Teegan, Isabelle, Lily, Avery, Kailyn, Kimora, Adiya
Our Slogan: If you see something, say something.
A school shooting is an attack at an educational institution involving the use of a firearm. Incidents that involve four or more deaths are sometimes called mass shootings.
The root cause of our issue is bullying. When a child feels that they are in an unsafe environment, they want to have the protection of a gun.
Most students feel safer with a gun. American civilians own more than 393 million firearms. 3,410 children have died in shootings in America in 2017. A kid/teen dies every 2 hours and 34 minutes.
Multiple people that we interviewed said that they would be willing to donate money to the wanted program, and everyone had a child/grandchild who was bullied or the people that we interviewed had been bullied in the past. Waco chief of police Brad Wigtil told us that we should continue our research, and instead of talking to each schools in Midway that we want to use the Wanted Program (River Valley, Woodgate, and Robinson). Individually, we can make a meeting with all schools.
Lastly, our goal statement is: We will get schools to implement an after school program in which we will make children feel wanted. By creating the Wanted Program, we will reduce the number of school shootings in the area.
