Opinion: After Parkland School Shooting, How Safe Are Teens In Our Own Classrooms?

Sara Smith, left, and her daughter Karina Smith visit a makeshift memorial outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty members were killed in a mass shooting last week in Parkland, Florida.

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By Terell Wright

Last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, is making America ask the question it never wants to answer — “Do guns need more regulation?”

It’s a question a lot of Americans seem to ask more and more. But my question is: how many more kids have to be shot dead until enough is enough?