Umpqua Community College, Santa Monica College, Oikos University, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Northern Illinois University, Virginia Tech, University of Arizona’s College of Nursing, University of Iowa, colleges since 1984 that were grounds for mass shootings. Harper Mercer, John Zawahri, L. Goh, Amy Bishop, Steven Kazmierczak, Robert S. Flores, Gang Lu, students and faculty that opened fire at those colleges. Mass shootings on college campuses are not fictional events, they are ongoing and increasing. Ways that could minimize the chances of mass shootings happening on campuses with or without armories; mental health checks, escorts, and trainings on dangerous behaviors.
According to the Analysis of Mass Shootings produced by EverytownReseach.org, …show more content…
Many colleges not only rural midwestern and western colleges allow guns to be held in armories for these avid sportsman. Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan also allows gun on campus for hunting purposes, but their security personnel escort the hunters off campus to provide safety and comfort to those attending and in surrounding parts (qtd. Lake Superior State University, Aug. 2015). To assume, other colleges escort their students off campuses is a comforting, although dangerous thought. Many college weapon policy either prohibits them completely or has rules that permit to a tight check in/ check out process, nothing about if these students are escorted or supervised while leaving …show more content…
Media tends to distort and intensify the reality, in which, the two could be completely unrelated but present at the time, without any correlation. The National Institution of Health agrees with this, refuting the major four assumptions since Columbine, Sandy Hook, and the Colorado movie theater massacre. The assumptions include; that mental illness causes gun violence, that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and that gun control “won’t prevent” another Newtown. It elaborates each of these points with allegations to facts and studies. The NIH directly addresses that, “Anxieties about insanity and gun violence are also imbued with oft-unspoken anxieties about race, politics, and the unequal distribution of violence in US society”. Which also states that, “Our analysis suggests that similar, if less overt historical tensions suffuse discourses linking guns and mental illness in ways that subtly connect “insane” gun crimes with oft-unspoken assumptions about “White” individualism or “Black” communal
According to the Analysis of Mass Shootings produced by EverytownReseach.org, …show more content…
Many colleges not only rural midwestern and western colleges allow guns to be held in armories for these avid sportsman. Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan also allows gun on campus for hunting purposes, but their security personnel escort the hunters off campus to provide safety and comfort to those attending and in surrounding parts (qtd. Lake Superior State University, Aug. 2015). To assume, other colleges escort their students off campuses is a comforting, although dangerous thought. Many college weapon policy either prohibits them completely or has rules that permit to a tight check in/ check out process, nothing about if these students are escorted or supervised while leaving …show more content…
Media tends to distort and intensify the reality, in which, the two could be completely unrelated but present at the time, without any correlation. The National Institution of Health agrees with this, refuting the major four assumptions since Columbine, Sandy Hook, and the Colorado movie theater massacre. The assumptions include; that mental illness causes gun violence, that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and that gun control “won’t prevent” another Newtown. It elaborates each of these points with allegations to facts and studies. The NIH directly addresses that, “Anxieties about insanity and gun violence are also imbued with oft-unspoken anxieties about race, politics, and the unequal distribution of violence in US society”. Which also states that, “Our analysis suggests that similar, if less overt historical tensions suffuse discourses linking guns and mental illness in ways that subtly connect “insane” gun crimes with oft-unspoken assumptions about “White” individualism or “Black” communal