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COVER STORY
AN EMERGING APPROACH
CAMPUS SAFETY CONCERNS RISE AMIDST THE RISE IN GUN VIOLENCE
AUTHOR
GLEN KUCERA IS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF MSA SECURITY®, AN ALLIED UNIVERSAL® COMPANY.
IMAGES COURTESY OF MSA SECURITY
N ews headlines provide an unfortunate reminder of the continued rise of active shooter incidents on campuses throughout the country. On the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) campus in November 2023, three faculty members died, and another was critically injured when a former professor opened fire in a building housing
the business school.
In September of 2023, a shooting at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill left one faculty member dead and triggered
a campus-wide lockdown until the suspect was apprehended. A former Nashville Covenant School student shot and killed three children and three adults in March of 2023 with more than 180 students present. A shooter killed three and injured five others at Michigan State University early last year.
According to Gun Violence Archive, in 2023 in the United States, 620 mass shootings left 644 people dead and 2,586 in- jured. The Washington Post reports that since the 1999 high-pro- file Columbine incident, there have been more than 389 school
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