Gun violence on American campuses has become routine, and that should alarm everyone. Five people were shot near Virginia State University residence halls just two days before the fall semester began — a place meant for learning, not survival. A university campus should never be a place where students and families have to brace for bullets. It’s time to enact stronger, common-sense gun control measures.
Rushing to gun control debates before knowing who the suspects are, where the firearm came from or which laws were broken is backward thinking. The university saw a similar shooting in 2024, and neither the victims nor suspects were enrolled students — meaning existing policy failures demand answers first. Facts have to come before politics.
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