College Shooting in Oregon

13 people have been killed in a shooting at Umpqua Community College in the US state of Oregon.




20 year old student opened fire in a classroom Thursday morning which caused the death of 13 and injured many. President Obama has exaperatedly responded with "We are not the only country on Earth with mental illness or with people who want to harm to each other, but we are the only country that has these mass shootings every few months."

He is absolutely right. Over the past years, we have had multiple shootings on college campus', elementary schools, movie theaters, along with shopping centres, and yet we do not learn from experience.

One would think that most establishments, especially schools would have formal security staff. It's understandable that many schools and public establishments refrain from having formal security staff because of the "bad" and unsafe image that such may generate. However, I think that it would be best to have such image than to have wounded and fatally hurt citizens.

Although the gunman's motives are unknown, there are reports in which he had warned of his intentions on social media. As far as being captured, the gunman died in a shootout with the police.
Now what are we going to do? Brush it off? Continue to ignore mental illnesses?  Not take any measures and wait for the next president to figure it out?

If the U.K. and Australia have been able to figure it out, then so should we. After all, aren't we the most powerful?


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34419802


Rosie Torres