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I was reading the Internets, as I so often do, and I came across a link to an ABC News article about the high number of recent school shootings. The article is very interesting, not only for its content, but for the structure used by the author.

While school shootings are a tragedy, this article does no research of its own to help the audience understand the issue and causes, and merely reports facts and speculates. For instance, “The overwhelming majority of schools in the United States do not have security cameras or metal detectors.” Do they understand how unreasonable it is to expect every student, every day, to go through a metal detector? The average high schooler’s backpack has a calculator, cell phone, iPod, and who knows what else in it. Metal detectors in airports aren’t even foolproof, how could metal detectors in public schools be?

But really the reason this article is so amazing is its end. I am sure in school you were taught over and over by teachers that when you finish up a paper, you want to conclude with a sentence that leaves the audience feeling moved and enlightened by what they have just read. A statement so profound that there can be no doubt in the reader’s mind that what you just told them was absolutely worth knowing. This article accomplishes exactly that:

Most would agree that when it comes to children being killed at school, even one is too many.