School security proposal shoves aside prevention

By:Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/07

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones urged April 19 that the Ohio state legislature and Governor Ted Strickland consider drafting a new law that would require armed guards in all of Ohio's schools, colleges and universities. In the wake of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute shootings, during which a crazed student killed 32 students and faculty, debate within the Ohio General Assembly has focused heavily on how future tragedies of this sort can be prevented. Nonetheless, the extraordinary cost of this program and its doubtful effectiveness makes it a proposal that the legislature should overlook in favor of more proactive approaches that would act to prevent another school shooting.

The high cost of putting an armed guard in every Ohio school raises some serious questions regarding the state's ability to fund this program. Such a program appears to be a colossal waste of expenditures, especially given the fact that the state's budget is already in the red. Given the rarity of such attacks, it is neither prudent nor feasible to devote such a large amount of state resources to a program such as this and more cost effective measures can be implemented instead.

Additionally, the presence of an armed guard is unlikely to dissuade a deranged and suicidal student from carrying out a planned attack. It is naive to think that a security guard is a deterrent strategy, or that he or she would be able to intervene in time to stop a determined shooter. Furthermore, Jones' suggestion that teachers and faculty members could be trained and equipped with firearms is a frightening proposition. The answer to school violence does not rest in turning Ohio's public schools into armed camps, thus creating a culture of anxiety.

Placing armed contingents within Ohio's schools sends the wrong message that guns are the way to prevent violence. Indeed, Virginia Tech has one of the best campus police forces in the country. Rather, focus must be shifted toward a proactive preventive strategy that involves more funding for school counselors and an increased effort on behalf of teachers to spot troubled students and refer them to professional help. While schools should be allowed to place armed guards on their campuses and in their halls on a district by district basis, this decision should remain a local matter. Ultimately, Sheriff Jones' proposal is a reactionary measure that will do little except further Ohio's financial crisis and create an unnecessary police presence in elementary, high school and university buildings.

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Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.miamistudent.net/media/storage/paper776/news/2007/04/27/Editorials/School.Security.Proposal.Shoves.Aside.Prevention-2884508.shtml> The Miami Student - April 27, 2007</a>

Anonymous

The Miami Student

2007-08-14

Sara Hood

"Skotzko, Stacey Nicole" <skotzksn@muohio.edu>

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LETTER: Massacre is &#39;senseless loss&#39;

By: Clarissa Nemeth
Posted: 4/18/07

To me, a college campus is one of the best places to be on earth. A university represents a lot of great things: youth and promise, for starters. A sense of community. A devotion to a life of the mind. Personal improvement. Ambition, dedication, discipline. All kinds of respect -- respect from students who want to learn, respect from professors who are honored to be able to share their knowledge, respect of colleagues and self-respect for a job well done. And above all, a love of knowledge, learning and teaching, with the idea that these things can improve the quality of life for everyone in the world.

This is why what happened at Virginia Tech horrifies me so much. Any senseless loss of life, especially in such high numbers, is numbing and saddening. But the idea that this took place on a college campus -- especially with the shooter being a student -- is particularly difficult for me to wrap my mind around. Such a thing is in direct reproach to all the wonderful things that a university, one of the civilized world&#39;s oldest and most respected institutions, stands for.

This was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and it happened in a community devoted to higher learning. How does a university community -- teachers, students and staff alike -- begin to recover from such a horrific turn of events, especially because the betrayal came from within?

There is already much criticism of the way the university handled itself during the crucial hours. But how much better could it have done it? How prepared could it have been for something like this? I&#39;m certain that, had it happened here, Boston University would have not have fared much better.

University administrators do think about student safety, but they are generally not thinking about their own students going on shooting rampages. And what a horrible precedent this has set. Clearly, now they will have to start thinking about it.

I have a friend at Virginia Tech, and thankfully, she and her friends are safe. But I grieve for her, nonetheless, because of what her community will be going through in the days and months to come, particularly when the media coverage subsides and they are left to pick up the pieces on their own.

Somebody on CNN said yesterday that because of these circumstances no matter what college we are affiliated with, "Today, we are all Hokies."

My heart goes out to the friends and families of those who died, but my prayers belong to everyone affiliated with Virginia Tech. I believe that every university in the country should have its flag at half-mast tomorrow. This tragedy did not just happen to Virginia Tech. It happened to all of us, in this larger community devoted to everything that colleges and universities stand for.

Clarissa Nemeth
CFA &#39;08

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Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/04/18/Opinion/Letter.Massacre.Is.senseless.Loss-2849549.shtml>The Daily Free Press - April 18, 2007</a>

Clarissa Nemeth

2007-08-14

Sara Hood

Matt Negrin <editor@dailyfreepress.com>

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Grieving nation copes with tragedy

<b>University reps. meet with BPD to discuss prevention</b>

By: Andrew FitzGerald
Posted: 4/18/07

The day after a Virginia Tech senior shot and killed 32 people on campus and himself, representatives from 19 Boston-area colleges who met at Boston Police Department headquarters said they must improve communication in the future to prevent similar campus attacks.

University administrators joined state and local police forces to discuss "protocol, procedure and planning" that goes into preventing campus attacks during a meeting requested by Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, said BPD spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll.

Representatives at the meeting said they wanted to ensure the BPD and campus security forces are able to communicate through radio, according to Driscoll, who cited the existing Boston Area Emergency Radio Network -- a link between local campus and police departments -- that received boosted support after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Virginia Tech and college campuses around the country have reacted to Monday&#39;s shootings, in which 32 people were killed by Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui. The 23-year-old English major from South Korea killed two people in a residence hall shortly after 7 a.m., and he killed 30 in a classroom building two hours later a half-mile across campus.

Local university administrators also compared methods they use to communicate with students in pressing situations, Driscoll said.

Virginia Tech officials have received widespread criticism for not immediately contacting university members after the first shooting. Officials first sent an email to the university about the residence hall shooting at 9:26 a.m., while the gunman was carrying out his second attack.

Driscoll said another topic discussed was the importance of "recognizing the tendency of someone who may act in violence." Classmates and professors have described the shooter as someone who was not very sociable, and some professors had referred him for counseling, according to The New York Times.

Representatives at yesterday&#39;s meeting will form subcommittees to develop campus-specific security plans, which will vary based on school size and relative security, Driscoll said.

"The distinction would be that some universities have patrol forces and some do not," she said. "If the security force is unarmed, then what are the steps they should take in an unarmed situation? If the force is armed, then the response should be different."

Attending university administrators said they could not provide details on the tools security personnel use to protect their campuses because the information could aid potential attackers.

Boston University Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore, who attended the meeting, declined to elaborate on specifics, only repeating Driscoll&#39;s summary that they discussed "protocols, training amongst different agencies [and] how students can access information."

Harvard University spokesman Joe Wrinn said universities and law enforcement agencies meet regularly to share information. For example, university representatives and police held a similar meeting in October 2004 to plan for potential riots after World Series games, prompted by the accidental shooting death of an Emerson College student celebrating in the streets after the Boston Red Sox won the American League Championship Series.

"We occasionally get together with other campuses and campus police," Wrinn said. "We run tabletop exercises and drills."

Driscoll said the police forces and university representatives will meet again to further develop prevention techniques, but she did not provide a date.

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Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/04/18/News/Grieving.Nation.Copes.With.Tragedy-2849523.shtml> The Daily Free Press - April 18, 2007</a>

Andrew FitzGerald

The Daily Free Press

2007-08-14

Sara Hood

Matt Negrin <editor@dailyfreepress.com>

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Campus responds to Va. Tech shootings

By: Sara Dover
Posted: 4/17/07
NYU officials heightened security on campus in wake of yesterday&#39;s mass shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute that left 33 people dead.

The lone gunman also wounded 29 others before shooting and killing himself at the school in Blacksburg, Va., making it the deadliest mass shooting in American history, CNN reported. The shooting began when two people were killed at a dormitory around 7:15 a.m. yesterday, and 30 more were killed about two hours later at Norris Hall, the university&#39;s engineering science and mechanics building.

University spokesman John Beckman said that the shooting is a horrible tragedy for the nation as well as higher education.

"I think that everyone on this campus is grief stricken over what happened at Virginia Tech," Beckman said. "It is a tragic and sorrowful day for higher education to think of so many lives lost in what appears to be an appalling and utterly senseless act."

Beckman said that, though it is difficult to draw lessons from the tragedy because so much is still unknown, Public Safety is heightening security on campus "over the next day or so to provide a sense of reassurance for the community and to let them know that we have their safety on the forefront of our minds."

In addition to being on high alert, patrol officers will double and triple up while on duty for the next day or so, Public Safety officials said.

Beckman also urged students to remember the availability of the Wellness Exchange for those who are affected by the tragedy and need someone to talk to.

Many NYU students said they knew others at Virginia Tech who they were concerned about.

"I&#39;m really worried about a lot of people I know [that] go there," said GSP freshman Kathy Chau. "It&#39;s surprising, Blacksburg is in the middle of nowhere. Everyone was scared about coming to New York City and this is the middle of nowhere."

GSP freshman Anthony Cox, who is originally from Galax, Va., two hours away from Blacksburg, said he was relieved to find out that his friends at Virginia Tech were unharmed.

"As far as I know, I haven&#39;t known anyone that&#39;s been injured," he said. "When I talked to them [my friends] earlier, we were worried because two of the girls I graduated with, they live in the dorm next to where it started. I know that their parents went and got them."

Although Virginia Tech plans to resume classes this Wednesday, students from the area are still recuperating.

Ben Zachary, a sophomore who attends Radford University and lives in Blacksburg with two roommates from Virginia Tech, said that when he found out about the shooting, he immediately went home, locked the doors and called his roommates.

"I was worried about one of them because they had an earlier class," he said.

One of the most difficult parts for Zachary was not knowing exactly what was happening.

"What&#39;s really hard for us right now is that they&#39;re not releasing names of who was affected," he said. "All our direct friends are OK, but we don&#39;t know about friends of friends."

Yesterday&#39;s shooting was the second to take place at Virginia Tech this school year. On the opening day of classes last August, an escaped jail inmate killed a sheriff deputy just off campus after he had allegedly killed a hospital guard off campus, the New York Daily News reported.

In addition to heightened security, Public Safety will also be putting out a community alert tomorrow about a Columbia student who was raped and tortured in her Hamilton Heights apartment, said crime prevention manager Jay Zwicker. The individual is said to still be at large.

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Original Source:<a href=http://www.nyunews.com/media/storage/paper869/news/2007/04/17/News/Campus.Responds.To.Va.Tech.Shootings-2845875.shtml> Washington Square News - April 17, 2007</a>

Sara Dover

Washington Square News

2007-08-08

Sara Hood

"Alvin Chang, WSN" <editor@nyunews.com>

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Campus security in the wake of Va Tech

By: WSN Staff
Posted: 4/17/07

The shooting yesterday at Virginia Tech was shocking, particularly because of its enormous death toll - 33 students were killed in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. Our condolences go out to Virginia Tech and the friends and families of the victims. While it was an isolated incident that took place far away from NYU, Public Safety is nonetheless beefing up security in response, doubling and tripling up on patrols, with all officers advised to be on "high alert."

This in turn prompts us to ask, "How would NYU respond to a similar event?" From the few details that have emerged from Virginia Tech, it appears that the assailant shot and killed two people in a dormitory before moving on to another part of campus, where two hours later he killed 30 others, then himself. It&#39;s important to note that the gunman was not a student. So, from that larger question comes two others: Would a shooter still be on the loose two hours later? And would current security policies limit the ability of a nonstudent to commit such a crime?

Clearly, having students flash their IDs poses no deterrent for a rampaging gunman - but there&#39;s little that can be done about that. Public safety officers at NYU are equipped with a red button on their walkie-talkies that sends an emergency signal to the central station - should central station determine that an emergency is taking place, the New York Police Department would be notified. Direct intervention by campus security officers is frowned upon, and for good reason - without the proper equipment, they too could easily become victims. But the inherent lag time in this emergency system is somewhat disconcerting, given that the packed halls of the Silver Center could produce dozens of victims in just a few moments. That said, given the nature of our Washington Square "campus," it&#39;s unlikely a gunman would be able to continue on his way two hours later.

Though this sort of event is seemingly random, we&#39;d like to think that they&#39;re at least somewhat preventable, which is why we appreciate that the Wellness Exchange is making itself more visible in response. While it&#39;s not a perfect solution - especially when the perpetrator&#39;s not a student and unable to take advantage - offering these services to the students who need them is a good step toward making students happier and safer.

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Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.nyunews.com/media/storage/paper869/news/2007/04/17/Opinion/Campus.Security.In.The.Wake.Of.Va.Tech-2845894.shtml>Washington Square News - April 17, 2007</a>

WSN Staff

Washington Square News

2007-08-08

Sara Hood

"Alvin Chang, WSN" <editor@nyunews.com>

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UNC to get phone alerts

<b>Text messages can notify police</b>

By: Katy Doll, Staff Writer
Posted: 4/20/07

UNC officials are implementing a phone system that alerts campus police when students are in danger.

Beginning this fall, the University will offer the Rave Guardian program, which uses a Global Positioning System timer to notify police of students&#39; locations when needed.

"You can set a timer on your phone that says: &#39;If I don&#39;t reset this timer, I want you to send a signal to campus police,&#39;" said Larry Hicks, director of the Department of Housing and Residential Education.

When the time expires, the phone alerts the student, and if it&#39;s not turned off, Rave contacts campus police, who can locate the phone using GPS technology.

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, campus security is on everyone&#39;s mind, but UNC officials were planning to implement Rave Guardian before Monday&#39;s shootings.

UNC officials are in negotiations with different providers and do not know the exact costs associated with purchasing the program.

Hicks said the housing department plans to offer a reduced price on GPS phones to all on-campus students next year.

There will be a push for incoming freshmen to buy the phones, which will be promoted at C-TOPS.

The program is part of the Rave Wireless system, an existing service that allows students to receive text messages about Blackboard updates and bus routes. The service also has an emergency broadcasting system.

"We could basically send out a broadcast message to all the users of the Rave system," said Brian Payst, director of technology and systems support for the division of student affairs.

Students whose phones aren&#39;t equipped for the GPS program can use Rave&#39;s other features, such as emergency text messaging. Students can sign up at www.unc.edu/rave.

Rave was established as a pilot program at UNC last summer with a group of about 20 students and now has 364 students, Payst said.

The emergency system never has been used, but officials said they have completed tests of the system.

"We&#39;ve done tests, and they&#39;ve gone just fine," Payst said. "You log in and have a Web page, type in your message and hit send. It just takes minutes - seconds even."

Officials also said a campuswide siren system is on its way.

"It certainly wasn&#39;t intended to deal with what happened at Virginia Tech, but it can deal with that as well," said James Alty, director of facilities services.

Hicks said safety issues have been at the forefront of UNC&#39;s concerns.

"It&#39;s basically taking a little bit more emphasis as a result of Virginia Tech," he said. "People want to expedite the plans."

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Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/04/20/University/Unc-To.Get.Phone.Alerts-2870650.shtml>The Daily Tar Heel - April 20, 2007</a>

Katy Doll

2007-07-16

Sara Hood

Kevin Schwartz <kschwartz@unc.edu>

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State looks to review

<b>Will examine campus security</b>

By: David Reynolds, Staff Writer
Posted: 4/20/07

In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy, school systems across the country are discussing new security measures to ensure that such a harrowing event never could be duplicated.

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine announced Thursday that an independent review panel has been formed to analyze the circumstances surrounding Monday&#39;s shooting.

Retired Virginia State police Superintendent Col. Gerald Massengill will be the head of the panel, which also will include Tom Ridge, the former U.S. secretary of homeland security.

N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper also has called for a special task force in conjunction with the State Bureau of Investigation, the UNC system, the N.C. Community College System and the N.C. Independent Colleges and Universities to look for improvements in campus emergency plans.

"We&#39;ll be looking at issues such as guidelines for when to declare a campus lockdown, how to better communicate with students and faculty in a crisis and more ways to identify a potential shooter, along with many others," he said in a Wednesday press conference.

Hope Williams, president of N.C. Independent Colleges and Universities, said school administrators will choose a task force during the next 10 days. She said this task force will release a report within six months containing suggestions for the 2007 fall semester.

The task force will not mandate changes, Williams said, because a one-size plan cannot fit different universities&#39; needs.

"I think the major question is one of modifying and adjusting existing emergency response plans as institutions feel it is necessary."

Jeff Davies, the chief of staff for UNC-system President Erskine Bowles, said discussions already had begun concerning improvements in security before the Va. Tech incident, but the event has added impetus to the debate.

"The decisions have been made to ensure that all residence halls will have card access, alarms and cameras," he said. "We are trying to wrap our arms around a very big issue in a very short amount of time."

Davies said the UNC system likely will ask for state funding for the changes.

And like many other schools nationwide, UNC-Chapel Hill has looked critically at its security measures.

UNC-CH officials said their campus police have completed annual active shooter training and will work with local law enforcement in the case of an emergency.

UNC-CH has the ability to contact students through radio broadcast, housing fliers and campuswide informational e-mails.

E-mails sent to the University community take roughly two hours to reach all intended recipients.

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Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/04/20/StateNational/State.Looks.To.Review-2870573.shtml> The Daily Tar Heel - April 20, 2007</a>

David Reynolds

The Daily Tar Heel

2007-07-16

Sara Hood

Kevin Schwartz <kschwartz@unc.edu>

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Emergency management comes to UNC

By: Elyse McCoy, Staff Writer
Posted: 7/5/07

The University is in the initial stages of development for the Public Information Emergency Response Communication Management System, or PIER, an Internet-based communication tool used to help relay emergency-related content and messages.

Students, faculty and staff will be alerted in the event of a crime, unexpected weather emergency or other event that requires immediate warning through a secure Web page that will look like a regular UNC-Chapel Hill Web page. Using the PIER system, campus security officials can post key emergency materials; templates of information prepared in advance about certain scenarios; detailed information about how to reach the University&#39;s key constituents, including students, faculty and staff; and background information about the campus, maps and emergency policies and procedures.

PIER also provides the capability to track and respond to questions from key stakeholders or the general public.

Following the Virginia Tech shootings, the University has strengthened its already extensive plans and procedures, but plans for developing a contract with the PIER vendor for the 16-campus UNC system have been in existence since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

UNC-Wilmington and UNC-Charlotte have been the most involved campuses to date, with Wilmington being designated the first campus to begin its PIER-related work and training several months ago.

The PIER system&#39;s clients include the U.S. Coast Guard - which used the system during Hurricane Katrina, the University of Houston, and several major corporations.

UNC-Chapel Hill has just recently begun training a small group of key people most likely to be involved with using PIER as a communication tool in an emergency situation, including those involved in University relations, public safety and information technology departments.

"We have started working on training issues as the spring semester was winding down and will continue over the summer," said Mike McFarland, the director of University communications.

"We believe PIER can help complement resources the University already uses and are developing, such as a siren system and the Rave system to communicate quickly, accurately and effectively with students, faculty, staff and other University-related audiences or the general public," McFarland said. Unlike the PIER system, which is primarily focused around managing information in an emergency, the Rave system is part of a broader effort to extend the campus to mobile phones.

"Rave has much more day-to-day impact on the lives of our students," said Brian Payst, the director of Technology & Systems Support.

"We certainly can, and will if needed, use Rave to send emergency broadcast messages, but it does much, much more than that for us."

The Rave system is used to provide bus arrival times for all the Chapel Hill Transit routes and stops, the ability to read UNC e-mail, information from slice.unc.edu about student events, Blackboard alerts, Rave Guardian (an enhanced personal safety service), group messaging, polls and more on students&#39; mobile phones. The University&#39;s partnership with Rave Wireless also enables the University to offer a steeply discounted cell phone program to students living in residence halls on campus in order to allow access to these services at the lowest possible cost.

The campus Emergency Notification committee has been coordinating efforts to integrate the PIER and Rave systems as much as possible to reduce duplication where it exists.

"We plan to integrate the information coming from PIER into a spot in the UNC mobile phone interface so you can easily check for closings or other important announcements coming from PIER," Payst said.

Payst does not think that the implementation of both the PIER system and the Rave system will be confusing to either students or their parents.

"They do different things, so we do not think it will be all that confusing, and we will work hard to clearly communicate the distinctions where they arise."

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Original Source: <a href=http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/07/05/University/Emergency.Management.Comes.To.Unc-2921381.shtml>The Daily Tar Heel - July 05, 2007</a>

Elyse McCoy

The Daily Tar Heel

2007-07-15

Sara Hood

Kevin Schwartz <kschwartz@unc.edu>

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Letters to the Editor - Shootings shed light on Taser incident

Monday&#39;s tragic shooting at Virginia Tech is the kind of event that provokes a nationwide outpouring of support, sympathy and questions - questions about the killer, his motives and what could have been done to prevent 33 students from needlessly dying.

Campus security, in particular, has received a lot of scrutiny. Why were classes allowed to continue after shots were fired and students were killed early in the morning?

The problem with such questions is that it is easy to ask them accusatorily in the wake of so many deaths. When nobody dies - when security clamps down on threatening behavior before it reaches such a drastic extreme - the questions asked are very different.

In November, here at UCLA, there was another incident that received nationwide coverage - the use of a Taser gun on a student.

Hundreds of people are in the campus library late at night, paying little attention to their surroundings. Per school policy, campus security officers perform student ID checks. One man refused to show his ID.

Now stop and think: Is this man an unarmed student or an unstable psychotic with a cache of weapons in his backpack? At this point, you don&#39;t know and neither do the police. The police only know that he is uncooperative and cannot prove that he has a right to be in the library. So they use their Taser guns.

If the police had found weapons in the student&#39;s backpack, they would have been hailed as heroes. Instead, they were vilified.

We know the odds are against the student being a homicidal maniac, even if he is uncooperative with police. But should the police have taken a chance against an uncooperative individual?

When a campus is open, like UCLA&#39;s, anyone can walk onto school grounds armed to the teeth. The beeper may go off when you try to carry a book out of the building, but not if you walk in with a pair of handguns.

The aphorism "better safe than sorry" exists for a reason.

Alex Fineman
UCLA law student

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Original Source: <a href=http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/apr/23/letters_editor6/>The Daily Bruin - April 23, 2007</a>

Alex Fineman

The Daily Bruin

2007-07-15

Sara Hood

Saba Riazati <editor@media.ucla.edu>

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Letters to the Editor: Self-defense could stop violence

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The tragic event that took place at Virginia Tech on Monday raises many questions in students&#39; minds: How safe are we? What measures are in place to keep us safe from harm while we&#39;re in class, in our dorms, or walking across campus?

Heaven forbid that a shooting should occur on our campus, but if it did, what would you do? What could you do? The truth is ... not much.

Current law, as well as UC policy, prohibits you from providing yourself with a means of self-defense.

UCLA&#39;s weapons policy prohibits common defensive items. Like Virginia Tech, UCLA doesn&#39;t allow firearms on campus even for law-abiding individuals trained and licensed to carry a concealed weapon.

Even if UCLA did, California state law forbids it.

As UC students, we&#39;re forced to remain unarmed and defenseless.

Because of this, we can only hope that suspension or expulsion will serve as a sufficient deterrent for those that mean to harm us. Forgive me if I&#39;m less than confident.

While you could always call the police if such a situation were to occur, their response times are measured in minutes.

However, in life-threatening situations like the shooting at Virginia Tech, survival is measured in seconds.

A single armed student or faculty member could have quickly ended - if not prevented - any and all school shootings.

It&#39;s time for change. It&#39;s time to rethink the "feel-good" legislation that is leaving thousands of innocent people defenseless.

It&#39;s time to let our state and national representatives know that we want to be safe. It&#39;s time that we let university students and public school teachers protect themselves and those in their care.

I urge you to call, write a letter or send an e-mail to your representatives to ask them to make public schools and college campuses places where law-abiding citizens can defend themselves.

Craig Chi
UCLA graduate student, Electrical Engineering

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Original Source: <a href=http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/apr/18/letters_editor8/>The Daily Bruin - April 18, 2007</a>

Craig Chi

The Daily Bruin

2007-07-15

Sara Hood

Saba Riazati <editor@media.ucla.edu>

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