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Persuasive Speech On School Shootings

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Imagine that you send your child off to school one day only to get a phone call home a few hours later saying that they just got shot! You wouldn’t think it was real, you must think they must be joking but there not. Imagine if your child gets sent home miserable telling you there was a shooting at the school and preps and teachers died. That is what happened on December the 14th 2012 in America with kids screaming and gun shots that could be heard all the way from Australia it really was a terrifying day for all.

Adam Lanza is the man behind all of this school shooting. He awoke one morning with a sudden urge to kill everyone some people say but I’m not so sure. I think he had this planned for years! I’d like to think he wasn’t planning

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