Former student Steven Kazmierczak, dressed in black, walked onto the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a packed science class Thursday, killing five students, wounding 15 and setting off a panicked stampede before committing suicide. He allegedly stopped taking his medications.
The shooting was the fourth at a U.S. school within a week.
On Feb. 8, a woman shot two fellow students to death before committing suicide at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. In Memphis, Tennessee, a 17-year-old is accused of shooting and critically wounding a fellow student Monday during a high school gym class, and the 15-year-old victim of a shooting at an Oxnard, California, junior high school has been declared brain dead.
What is going on with today's young people? What can be done to stop these types of shootings from happening? Has it become necessary to have armed guards on all university and high school and junior high school campuses? Do gun laws need to be stricter? (The guns in this shooting were obtained legally.) I know people say 'guns don't kill, people do', but is this really true anymore?
Or are the parents to blame?
