By now, I’m sure everyone is aware of the Valentine’s Day shooting at Northern Illinois University. It saddens me to know that there is nothing the University or any of Chicago’s top security can do to prevent a situation like this. Since UIC is a very public campus and anyone can walk into our main campus (the east side) at any time of the day, people have a reason to feel unsafe traveling to class.
After reading about the NIU massacre in the Chicago Sun-Times, I was very shocked to see that the shooter was a former student himself and that he showed no signs of committing these criminal acts. Steven Kazmierczak was a 27-year-old former student and T.A. of NIU who was seen as polite and calm by many family members and friends. Nobody really knew what he was going through except his former girlfriend who calms he stopped taking his medication. In addition to Steven not taking his medicine anymore, he was able to purchase firearms both through the internet and through a gun store in Urbana Champaign. I think schools need to put in a lot more time monitoring students and the medications that they are on. Gun shops also need to be stricter in selling their weapons and not just releasing them to anyone who has a certified gun license. In today’s society, it is so easy for young people to get a hold of things that can cause harm to both themselves and others. I hope in the future, there will be more effort put into raising the security standards.
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