Saugus High School Shooting

         On Thursday, November 14t at Saugus Highschool a gunman randomly opened fire. He had been able to shoot 5 people in the time span of 16 seconds and then it was over. Two students Grace Anne Muehlberger age 15 and  Dominic Blackwell age 14 died from their wounds. Three others were wounded and were able to survive. They were able to identify the gunman Nathaniel Berhow, who died at the hospital after he used the last bullet to shoot himself on his 16th birthday. The Los Angeles County Sherrif Alex Villanueva explained that all the training and practice that they had done as a school really paid off, as so many people knew to hide and barricade themselves. That is why there were not too many injuries but there, unfortunately, was some wounded and dead.

        When we think about it there are so many shootings and things at occur at schools that should not be happening there. A school is a place where we go to learn and where we should feel safe, no parent wants to send their kid to school with the thought of "am I going to see them again later today" CNN got the statistic that there were been 44 school shootings in 46 weeks this year, and that is almost one school shooting per week. This is so crazy this is happening so often people aren't even surprised about it anymore. But bigger actions need to be taken to stop this. A big part of it is mental health, and this is why people need to look out for others and make sure they get the help that they need. Especially school is a place where students can become very stressed and have a lot of anger built up inside of them and they might want to take it out on the school. We cannot let this keep happening, because if we let it keep happening there will be more school shootings and the whole point is to decrease school shootings. We don't want school shootings to become a normal thing to the point where people are saying "I'm not surprised that it happened."