We should ask how higher education can help end our violent culture rather than focusing on how individual higher education organizations respond to violence.
Thinking of you all, Brendan. Yes, while I can of course see how politically complex the issue is, from afar it is frustrating that large institutions (higher education, religious bodies, and the like) don't take a bipartisan collective and very loud stand on gun violence.
As you say: "Violence is unlikely to erupt at any particular place at any specific time, but it could happen anywhere at any time." But amid the rightfully angry responses to mass shootings, I read little of the damage that the psyche of fear around the potential for a mass shooting at any given moment must have on students and schoolchildren.
Thinking of you all, Brendan. Yes, while I can of course see how politically complex the issue is, from afar it is frustrating that large institutions (higher education, religious bodies, and the like) don't take a bipartisan collective and very loud stand on gun violence.
As you say: "Violence is unlikely to erupt at any particular place at any specific time, but it could happen anywhere at any time." But amid the rightfully angry responses to mass shootings, I read little of the damage that the psyche of fear around the potential for a mass shooting at any given moment must have on students and schoolchildren.