In September of 2015, the European Commission declared that the Syrian Civil War has become the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War Two. They estimated that around 12.2 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance inside Syria, 4.6 million of whom are in besieged or hard-to-reach areas of the country. Since the war began four and a half years ago, over 250,000 civilians have been killed. However, the country is currently so dangerous that a definitive death toll is not possible. The constant violence has forced more than four million to flee the country, fueling a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe.
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There was Columbine and Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook and Charleston and Aurora and Bath and Austin and Red Lake and Huntsville and Santa Monica and Marysville and October 2, 2015, in Roseburg, Oregon, Christopher Harper-Mercer enters Umpqua Community College and demands that the inhabitants of Classroom 15 stand and state their religion before murdering them. In our own school, numerous students have stories of gunmen entering their school and fellow students pressing a knife their peer's throat. I was told one such story by a student at the Alabama School of Fine Arts regarding the gunman at Chelsea Middle School in Chelsea, Alabama, back in 2013. He was in the gym at the time of the hostage situation, and recounted the story to me in an interview on October 12, 2015.
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