# 11 - Prevention

     Prevention is better than cure. Prevention is the safest way that we can stop schooling, without hurting anybody.

     Since the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting incident happened, a lot of suggestions about stricter gun control laws emerged. Is gun control law the only way that we have? The answer to my question was provided by the CNN ,it was entitled “10 ways to putbrakes on mass shootings in schools” which was written by Nicole Saidi.

     I read her article and try to think of what she is trying to say and I realized that these suggestions can really help only if we will listen. Some of the ways on how we can put brakes on mass shootings in schools:

·              Improve mental health care. “Pushing the blame onto guns diverts it from where the real need is…”

·              Focus on parenting. “The best way to reduce violent outbreaks is by teaching our children kindness, empathy and love. Take the time to be a parent.”

·              Watch out for one another. "You can't fix the problem by casting these people out as another. They're us, and we're them."

     These are just simple things but it can really reduce the shootings by doing it. It is better to act than to react to those things we knew for ourselves has a remedy. We can’t save people when they’re already dead, we can only take the incident as a warning for us to learn that the next time this kind of incident will happen we must be more prepared.

     We may not make the gun laws stricter but we can do these things to prevent another school shooting. Change doesn't have to start as a big but it can start as a little and be more effective in the end.