Mass Shooting In College Campus

The concern for the safety of your child in a college campus or university will most likely be your number one priority. In the case that you do not have a child and you are that person in the university, you might always want to watch your back. According to a “statistical analysis of more than three decades of data, in 2011 the United States entered a new period in which mass shootings are occurring more frequently.” (Cohen) Now off course, the research that has been done by Cohen includes mass shootings from ages varying from six to twenty-one years old although another article by the “EverytownResearch.org” website reveals how out of all of the school mass shootings in the United States, the majority of the mass shooting incidents that have happened in different colleges or universities. Because younger Ed campuses like elementary, middle and high schools are particularly small in comparison to the majority of all college campuses and universities, it is easier for security guards including school police to be in most places or get to a dangerous situation faster than in a higher Ed campus. A university
It was a situation that was unseen which made it impossible to prevent. “The UT Tower Shooting” article states, “Whitman introduced the nation to the idea of mass murder in a public space.” Before going off and killing these people at the university, “Whitman killed his mother, Margaret Whitman, and his wife, Kathleen Leissner Whitman, between midnight and 3:00 a.m.” (Helmer). As a result of this, Whitman wrote a letter and left it next to her dead mother explaining why he had done what he did which was to relieve her sufferings, although it did not provide an explanation for the mass shooting of the other 46