<p>by Nicholas Mitchell, Ph.D.</p>
<p>On February 14, 2018, 17 people were murdered and 17 people were wounded at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.[1] None of the victims had walked into their school that day expecting to be the victim of a mass shooting. None of the family members of the victims said goodbye to their loved ones that morning expecting it to be the last time. Most people never will experience the horror that the students and faculty of Stoneman Douglas were confronted with; but, because of the availability of social media, the world got to witness the horror of those trapped in the school in real time.[2] The Parkland mass shooting has proven to be a catalyst for a new phase of the very public intergenerational discourse about gun control and school safety. A policy suggestion that has emerged on both the local and national levels is the arming of teachers to protect students from an attacker.</p>
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