--- title: Guns, school safety and arguments about schools — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A lockdown drill is like a fire drill: everyone practises staying quiet behind a locked door so they would know what to d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / Guns, school safety and arguments abou… # Guns, school safety and arguments about schools Lesson 22 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/0/) — A lockdown drill is like a fire drill: everyone practises staying quiet behind a locked door so they would know what to do, even though real emergencies are very rare and most children never have one. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/1/) — Countries have very different rules about guns. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/2/) — Picture Hannah from Manchester seeing guns for sale next to the fishing rods in a Texas shop: what feels normal at home can look strange abroad, and the other way round. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/3/) — Many school arguments are about the same few things: safety, freedom, fairness, and who decides — parents, teachers, school boards, governments or children themselves. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/4/) — Both sides usually say they want children safe and treated fairly; they disagree about how. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/5/) — Hearing each side's best reasons is how you understand the argument, whichever side you end up on. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/7/) — Schools practise lockdown drills so everyone knows what to do in an emergency; real emergencies are very rare. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/9/) — The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects a right to keep and bear arms, and Americans argue about what that allows. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/10/) — After a mass shooting at Port Arthur in Tasmania in 1996, Australia agreed strict gun laws, banned many kinds of guns and paid people to hand in hundreds of thousands of them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/11/) — Many studies report that Australia has had far fewer mass shootings since 1996, though people argue about whether other countries could copy it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/12/) — In the UK most guns are tightly controlled and most police officers do not carry guns. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/13/) — Ideas for school safety include locked doors, guards, metal detectors, more counsellors and, in some US states, trained staff allowed to be armed; each idea has supporters and critics. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/14/) — Many schools in Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and parts of the US and Canada have banned or limited phones during the school day, news reports said. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/15/) — In many US school districts parents and school boards have argued about removing some library books; some call it checking books for age, others call it banning. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/16/) — In 2020 footballer Marcus Rashford, who had free school meals as a boy, campaigned for food help for poorer children in the holidays, and the UK government changed its plans, news reports said. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/17/) — In 2019 Quebec passed a law stopping some public workers, including public school teachers, from wearing religious symbols at work; it has been challenged in court. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/18/) — Australia passed a law, starting in December 2025, saying big social media apps must stop under-16s from having accounts, news reports said. - ← previous: [Climate: hot summers and hot arguments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/) - next →: [Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)