Two Perspectives: Should We Keep the Guns in the South High Colonel?

Our country is ravaged by gun violence—in 2021, guns killed more than 49,000 Americans. As we all know, gun violence infects schools too; since the Columbine school shooting in 1999, there have been over 360 more, affecting more than 215,000 students across the country. Just recently, on March 27, three elementary schoolers and three staff members were killed in a school in Nashville, Tennessee....

One day, I walked into school seeing students wearing South High ambassador shirts. I liked the design of the shirts until I saw the Colonel was missing his revolvers. The argument over our mascot only started before this school year. It did not start when it was introduced almost a century ago. Instead, it started on August 19th, 2022 when Vice President of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Comm...