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Limiting access to guns for children while still being able to keep guns in the house ·       Opportunity: o    School shootings are becoming more and more commonplace while simultaneously getting deadlier. A large part of this is because children have access to firearms that their parents keep in the house for protection. §   The who—children in schools and their parents §   The what—children are dying as a result of these shootings or accidents §   The why—children are allowed access to their parents’ firearms o    Testing the who: The children who are victim to the shootings and their parents are not truly the only victims. Whenever there is a shooting, the entire country is affected. School shootings frighten children all over the world and worry about their child’s safety in school. Shooting also happen in all levels of education, from preschool to college. I believe the who is all school-children and all pare...

These were the opportunities I was able to identify from Economic and Regulatory trends. ·       Economic trend: highest mortgage rates in four years ·       Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/29/mortgage-rates-highest-in-4-years-ominous-sign-for-spring-housing.html ·       I found this on the CNBC website. I was looking at mortgage rates because my family recently purchased a building and then I stumbled across the article that I found on CNBC saying that mortgage rates are at a four year high. ·       What leads me to believe that an opportunity may exist is that mortgage rates have been at a historical low over the last many years, and with this sudden uptick this may mean that this period is coming to an end. Now may be a good time to invest in property. ·       For this, the prototypical customer would be an investor or someone with a large amount...

These were five local opportunities I was able to identify. 1.      “Cyberbullying: 2 Florida kids arrested after girl’s suicide” by Eryn Dion of The Gainesville Sun ·       http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/169A751FAB8FD330?p=WORLDNEWS ·       This story was about the tragic suicide of Gabriella Green who took her life after continuous cyberbullying from two boys who were in her class. The twelve-year-old had been constantly bullied over the internet and was forced to suffer in silence until finally she took her life. The Panama City Beach Police Department arrested the two classmates who had been responsible for her suicide. ·       The problem: The problem of this story us that cyberbullying is still a major problem and it seems to be becoming more widespread as it is affecting younger people every year. ·       Who: The ...