(Please excuse the godawful quality, I will try to fix it later)

The topic I chose was School Shootings, as you can see from the infographic above. Please note that when reading this infographic, a “shooting” is only considered as such when FOUR OR MORE people have been killed. This means that even if three people are killed and 20 are injured, it would NOT be considered a shooting in the US. There are many, many incidents of gun violence not accounted for in these statistics.

I chose this topic because I believe it’s incredibly important, and there’s not enough being done about it. Many people argue that “it’s the gun that does the killing, not the person” as an excuse to keep firearms in circulation. This is extremely ignorant. How many people would kill others if guns were more restricted? Most murders/shootings are committed using guns; (at least in the U.S.) if people don’t have easy access to firearms, there would absolutely be less casualties. “But what about knives?” Guns are far easier to use, and if used correctly, have the ability to quickly take the lives of numerous people.

To create my project, I used Canva. It didn’t take me too long to figure out, since it’s a pretty basic tool.  Unfortunately, when I wanted to upload it here, all the downloads turned up blurry (that may just be user error, I have no idea how technology works). The embedded photo looked fine at first, and then of course when I expanded it, the image got incredibly blurry. I tried increasing the size of the PDF, but apparently I need Canva Pro to do that. Darn it. I eventually decided to just take multiple Snips and embed them into the post.

Canva allows you to use infographics, which can help inform others on important topics. Technology is a great way to help educate other people on problems, such as School Shootings, or things as simple as ‘How to wash your hands.’ (I think we’ve all seen those infographics hung up everywhere).

Canva is a useful tool in which I created my infographic; however, it would be useful to be able to obtain better quality images without having to pay a ridiculous amount of money (I guess they have to make money somehow).