How do we stop this...???

This isn't very entertaining but its something that I feel is a huge problem.

So, I'm sure all of you have heard or at least will within the next 24-hours that there was, yet another, college shooting.

This shooting took place in Phoenix, at South Mountain Community College. A former student shot three people in a computer room at the community college. Authorities say two are in critical condition. They also say that this was not a random shooting.

The police arrested the man responsible for this shooting near the college shortly after he fled. He has been identified as 22-year-old Rodney Smith. The ages of the two in critical condition were a 25-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman. There was no information given on the injuries the two had or if there conditions had changed.

A 17-year-old boy was also injured, but in stable condition. Robert Pryce, the spokesperson for SMCC said that the school was on lock down for about an hour, however there were about 30 people in the computer lab at the time of the shooting as well as 300+ on campus. The computer lab is open to the public.

Do these shooters feel that its the "cool" thing to do this? Is it for the publicity? Because they know their names will be in the paper, their faces on television and their names never forgotten? What reason could they possibly have?

I'm not sure what your opinions on situations such as this one are, but quite frankly I'm tired of this happening. Isn't there a way that we can prevent innocent people from being hurt?!

As cheesy as that sounds, I can't even say that I always feel 100% safe when I attend my classes. I won't even dare take a night class as a woman because I'm terrified of all these shootings. How can our campus/university make us feel more safe and secure? Students should be able to go to there classes everyday and not fear anything.

But how is that possible today? Is it possible to make security so tight that everyone has to show some sort of proof that they attend the university and/or be searched before entering campus? And would people really be willing to do that?

We shouldn't have problems such as these. We should be able to go to classes each day and have nothing to worry about, need no security and routine searches and lock downs should be completely unnecessary.