I was reading about the NIU Massacre on Cnn.com. It made me realize, how are we suppose to protect ourselves from something like that? I am a college sophomore and every time I walk outside on campus or I'm sitting in my class, I sometimes think to myself, "Something can or will happen any second now." How are we suppose to prevent this? Some schools are thinking about putting gates around campus, but is that really effective since a murderer could be ON campus? My school has an emergency program where the school could send out emails or text messages to students warning them about these kinds of things. My other question is, what if students do not have access to this? What will happen then? What if students DO have access to it, but it is too late for them to receive it? We had a scare last year on campus where someone thought they saw a person with some sort of weapon. Unfortunately, MY class did not hear about this until an hour later when the President emailed all of us around 9:00am. It came out to be they were only holding an umbrella. I understand that someone was taking precaution, but like my class, we were not aware of this. So now, I am blogging to get ideas from others to prevent something like what happened at NIU or VA Tech. What is the best way to prevent these or is there any way at all?
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Hate to say it, but there are always school shootings. What else is new? There really is no way of preventing it. I mean I guess schools to require criminal checks or something but even then. The people that shoot up schools don't always have a previous criminal record.
I can't really figure out any other way and not hurt the rights of the individual.
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