College Campus Shooting Case Study

On the east side of Boston, MA, two police officers were injured in what appears to be an inadvertent event. The Commissioner of the Boston Police Department stated in a press conference that this occurrence was a tragic domestic conflict. One suspect was confirmed dead, and two other suspects were detained and taken into custody. Likewise, studies are showing that college campus shootings are more chronic as well as increasingly dangerous as of late, “with three times as many people injured or killed during the most recent five-year period, the New York City-based Citizens Crime Commission said”. Concurrently, the two foremost Presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, approach this issue with opposite perspectives, with
Clinton entreating for more rigid gun laws and Trump criticizing the Democratic nominee for attempting to annul the Constitutional Second Amendment right to bear arms. Opinion: In an age where lawlessness reigns, and bedlam is a way of life, shootings of our police officers are not surprising. With groups such as Black Lives Matter inciting violence, and a lack of respect for the police force prevalent, a state of law and order cannot exist. Ever since Mr. Obama referred to officers mistakenly arresting a black Harvard professor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as having “acted stupidly”, there has been a contempt for the police force in not only the black community, but also the white community as well. It is this feeling that is agitated every time an officer shoots a black individual, a feeling that is quite often unwarranted in the black community.