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IN THIS ISSUE PARKLAND SCHOOL SHOOTING: How the Students Turned Tragedy Into a Youth Movement IN THIS ISSUE PARKLAND SCHOOL SHOOTING: How the Students Turned Tragedy into a Youth Movement Duration: 18:14 On Valentine’s day 2018 a gun man entered a high school in Parkand, Florida and opened fire. By the time he was apprehended there were 17 dead, including teachers and students. The massacre became a warrior cry for the students. They raised their voices to demand stricter gun control laws and it swept across the country. It’s not the first time people in the U.S. have called for gun restrictions after a mass CREDITS News in Review is produced by shooting. But this time the students of Parkland CBC NEWS and Curio.ca had momentum and that turned their moment into a movement. GUIDE Writer: Jill Morris Editor: Sean Dolan Related News in Review Stories VIDEO Host: Michael Serapio Mosque Attack: Mass Shooting in Quebec Senior producer: Jordanna Lake (Mar 2017) Packaging producer: Marie-Hélène Savard Associate producer: Francine Laprotte Orlando Shooting: Motivation of a Mass Murderer (Sep 2016) Supervising manager: Laraine Bone Justin Bourque's Violent Rage (Dec 2014) Visit www.curio.ca/newsinreview, where you Colorado Shooting Rampage (Sep 2012) will find an archive of all previous News in Review seasons. As a companion resource, we A Gunman Attacks Students in Montreal recommend that students and teachers (Oct 2006) access www.cbc.ca/news for additional Children in Trouble: Guns in Schools articles. (Sep 1999) Closed Captioning News in Review programs are closed Other related Curio.ca content captioned for the hearing impaired, for English as a Second Language students, or for situations in which the additional on-screen Code Orange (Radio-Canada) print component will enhance learning. Wab Kinew on La Loche and Discrimination Against First Nations Children (The National) CBC authorizes reproduction of material contained in this guide for educational purposes. Please identify source. News in Review is distributed by: Curio.ca – CBC Media Solutions © 2018 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation VIDEO REVIEW 3. a) How many mass shootings have there been in the U.S. since 2012? NOTE TO TEACHERS b) How many people have been killed? The classroom must promote a safe place for students to discuss sensitive issues such as violence and death. 4. Including the number of people killed in Prepare students for the topics that will be discussed. mass shootings, what was the average Allow for individual reflective time in addition to small annual number of deaths from guns in the group activities where students can safely process their U.S. between 2013 and 2016? thoughts and emotions 5. On average, how often do school shootings happen in the U.S.? Before Viewing 6. What stands in the way of establishing As a class or working in a small group, consider tougher gun laws? the following questions: 7. Where and when did student activist David To what extent do you feel safe in your Hogg film his first video about the need for school? gun control? How does he explain his What aspects of your school or school decision to record this video? culture make you feel more or less safe? 8. During the meeting between President Do you think students in Canadian schools Trump and victims and survivors of recent feel safer than students in U.S. schools? and past school shootings, what What factors do you think account for any recommendation is given for how to different feelings of safety in Canadian and prevent school shootings? U.S. schools? 9. What does student activist Samuel Zeif think Write down some of the interesting points and the real issue is? ideas that came up during your discussion. You will have an opportunity to refer to these 10. Why has Canadian company Mountain discussion points after viewing this News in Equipment Co-op stopped carrying Vista Review. Outdoor products? 11. What is NRA-TV? Viewing 12. At the march on Washington, why does 1. By what measure was Parkland one of the Emma Gonzalez stand in silence for a little safest small cities in Florida? over six minutes? 2. What sort of action related to gun control 13. What does the student chant “vote them would some people like to see? Why might out!” mean? it be particularly difficult for this action to be taken in Florida? /2 After Viewing a) In what ways is this advice particularly meaningful in the context of the gun 1. Read this short report on the events that control movement in the U.S.? took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. b) What do you think being a “nuisance” might involve? Do you think that your www.cbc.ca/news/world/20-children- school would support student efforts to among-dead-in-connecticut-school- “be a nuisance” if it were in the service massacre-1.1134782 of an important social or political goal? Explain your answer. The weapon used in the Sandy Hook shooting, the AR-15, is the same gun used in 3. Look back over the discussion points you the shooting in Parkland. You can read recorded in the Before Viewing section. more about the weapon and the Sandy Should Canadian students be as Hook parents’ efforts to hold the gun concerned about school shootings and manufacturer responsible for its part in the gun control as their U.S. counterparts? Sandy Hook shooting here: Explain your reasoning. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sandy- hook-lawsuit-1.3639036 The AR‐15 rifle — the weapon used in the Based on what you have read, what do shooting in Parkland — is a restricted you think Jefferey Kasky, father of student firearm in Canada. The purchase of activist Cameron Kasky, means when he such a weapon is regulated by the says: “I mean, I hate to be cynical, but federal government. To buy an really, frankly speaking, if Sandy Hook didn’t AR‐15 in Canada you would need do it, I don't know how this will.”? to obtain both a possession and acquisition licence, as well as a restricted firearms licence. After showing 2. As CBC host Ian Hanomansing points out, these documents to a shop owner, you will be the students of Stoneman Douglas High permitted to purchase the gun but will have to wait for School are living up to the expectations of up to two weeks while the paperwork is submitted to a their school’s namesake. Marjory Stoneman provincial office for approval of your application. Once Douglas, a journalist, environmentalist and your application has been approved, and you have the activist for racial justice, advised: weapon in your possession, there are strict rules that you must follow. For example, you need to carry the “Be a nuisance when it counts. Do your part licensing paperwork with the weapon at all times and to inform and stimulate the public to join your you cannot make any stops between your home and action. Be depressed, discouraged and the shooting range when the gun is with you. The disappointed at failure and the disheartening shooting range is the only place where the weapon can effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and be legally fired. bad politics but never give up.” /3 THE STORY Minds On Write a short journal entry in which you describe your personal experience with, knowledge of, and feelings about guns. Consider whether your perspective is typical of most people living in Canada. If you already have an opinion about gun control laws, articulate your opinion and explain why you hold this opinion. After writing, you may choose to share a portion of your entry to the class. The new normal We are no longer shocked by the news of a school shooting. A dramatic description of a shooter entering a quiet school hallway with a semi-automatic weapon poised to open fire on innocent young people is absurdly familiar. In the United States more than two-thirds of all schools have an explicit plan in the event of an eighth school shooting in the U.S. over the first “active shooter” entering school grounds. Most seven weeks of 2018. of those schools have regular practice drills where doors are locked, blinds are drawn, and Here’s what happened: shortly after 2:30 in the students crouch silently on the floor, away from afternoon, a young man carrying an AR-15 rifle doors and windows. Canada has followed suit. entered the school and opened fire, killing 17 While not yet mandatory across all jurisdictions, people and wounding 17 others. A short while most school districts have “lock down” later, the shooter was arrested by police. In the protocols and many require their schools to terrifying interim between the shooting and the carry out practice drills throughout the year. All arrest, students hiding throughout Stoneman of this in preparation for the new normal of gun Douglas High School were using social media violence in schools. to point out what many believe should be obvious by now: America has a serious It has been almost twenty years since the problem with gun violence. infamous school shooting at Columbine High School in Boulder, Colorado. Over those years, U.S. gun laws and the NRA the number of school shootings has increased Many people blame the rise in school at an alarming rate. The Valentine’s Day shootings on the National Rifle Association shooting in Parkland, Florida, marked the (NRA). The NRA was established in 1871 as a /4 hobbyist group with the purpose of promoting A civics lesson: Never again rifle shooting as a leisure activity. It wasn’t until The power of the NRA and the ongoing fear of the 1970s that the organization became introducing any kind of legitimate gun control overtly political and began lobbying for the legislation proved to be a motivating factor for protection of Second Amendment rights — the the friends of the victims of the Parkland controversial section of the U.S.
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