Tips: For Preventing a Shooting at NIU and Other Schools

This was the first shooting at NIU we have had these kind of incidents happen so many times in the past, is it really a surprise? It seems like it's happening more and more each year and nothing is really being done to stop the shooting at the NIU campus, if this type of thing keeps happening our students are really going to fear going to school and they'll be to afraid to learn because of worrying about if they'll get shot or not. The shooter are usually a student or a former student that may have attended the university. On the WGN News, they had reported that " there was a threat in December" and apparently it was not taken very seriously. When our kids go away to school, or just to regular school no one wants to have to worry about someone shooting them, when it does happens is it really a surprise, because, nothing was ever done from the last shooting at school.

These students needs to be looked at more closely, something is wrong in their lives and they want attention maybe no one is listening to them and the only way they know how to get attention is to shoot up the whole school, or university. These kids have real problems and you may or may not know when and where they'll strike, here's some things a school or university should be doing to help keep their schools safe for the students.

1.) There should be metal detectors in every school and university so that the students can feel safer when they attend school, that is one thing needs to be put in place, not the next time something happens.

2.) The schools need to lock all the doors where no one can enter from the outside but, the students can open the doors from the inside in case of fire .

3.) Place security guards in the hallways, and surveillance cameras in and around the schools, and monitor them, so that they can at least question anyone who's roaming the halls or look suspicious and don't really have a purpose for being at the school. Also the security guards should do rounds to make sure nothing is going on the the school, this will cut down on outsider coming into the schools and shooting our students, even go as far as to escort them to the front door, because, right now there's no plans in place.

4.) Next follow-up on the threats that are made to the school or student and try to find out what kind of life they have and if there's any problems going on in there lives. It 's not always a student or a former student who does the shooting, in the case of NIU campus shooting the person who did the shooting was not a student at the University but, we can only try to control who we have control over, that's why security is so important. No it's not a surprise there was a shooting at NIU, the shooting on the campus of NIU is not a surprise, when nothing was ever done about all the other shooting like at Virginia Tech, and other schools.

5.) We can do so much more than set back and let this keep happening to our kids, one other thing can be done is the freedom of gun usage, the laws should be stiffer, when in reality does everyone really needs to have control to a weapon? people use guns to kill people,they don't use them for what they were untented to be use for. We can no loner trust guns in the hands of our country, or any other place in the world. People use guns to kill students like the NIU campus shooting, is it really a surprise.