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  1. Hello. My name is Carly Cruso, and this is my issue speech.
  2. The topic I chose was for there to be more security in schools.
  3. In 2023 there have been 23 school shootings that have resulted in injuries or death.
  4. There have been 167 shootings since 2018, and there are 51 school shootings in 2022.
  5. The school shootings have happened in approximately 18 of
  6. the states in the United States this year.
  7. This is just one reason of why we should have better security in schools.
  8. I chose this topic because I went through a scare in high school.
  9. There was a man around our school campus with a gun,
  10. so we had to take cover as if he was in the building.
  11. That was a terrifying experience for me and the rest
  12. of my classmates and as well as my teachers.
  13. My high school did not have security,
  14. so we relied on our teachers to make sure we were safe.
  15. Although the teachers did a very good job of doing this,
  16. it
  17. would have helped someone's everyone's peace of mind to know that we had
  18. trained guards to protect all of us.
  19. With this.
  20. Parents rely on schools to be a safe place,
  21. and having security guards as part of that
  22. safety system will make everyone feel more comfortable.
  23. Security does not just mean security guards, though.
  24. Security is also cameras, automatic locks,
  25. metal detectors and protocols for teachers and students.
  26. I can understand how metal detectors can be scary for students to go through,
  27. but in my opinion,
  28. if they don't have anything to hide,
  29. then they shouldn't have an issue going through detectors
  30. for elementary schools. I think it's important to have metal detectors because it
  31. isn't only Children going through those doors.
  32. A possible guess may threaten the lives of the students.
  33. Something as simple as that can save young Children's lives.
  34. Some
  35. some statistics that I think are important to share
  36. is that there have been 338,000 students in the US
  37. that have experienced gun violence in schools since 1999.
  38. As mentioned before, there have been 23 school shootings this year,
  39. with 23 people killed, nine students
  40. and four school employees
  41. and 21 people injured.
  42. The effects on the students that feel unsafe in the classroom
  43. will result in difficulty learning and what their teachers are teaching.
  44. Yeah,
  45. the next thing you can do is to take action.
  46. You can do this in a number of different ways.
  47. You can join your P A or violence Protection Coalition.
  48. You can also just talk to school counsellors and principals to let
  49. them know how important it is to have security in your school.
  50. As a future teacher,
  51. I would like to emphasise how important it is for our students and staff to
  52. feel safe so they so that they can retain the most information from their teachers.