Flashpoint: After another school shooting in Michigan, what can be done to keep our students safe?

DETROIT – Welcome to Flashpoint, after per week of extra American distress courtesy of one other mass homicide. And but once more, it was visited on recent, younger vibrant lives simply beginning down the trail of maturity. Brian Fraser, Arielle Anderson, and Alexandria Verner — all from Metro Detroit, all vivid shining lights, all taken, all unfortunate sufficient to be within the path of a disaffected loner with a gun. 5 others are nonetheless making an attempt to get well from their intersection with this insanity.

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And it simply retains occurring — once more, and once more, and once more. The one distinction about the place we are actually is that it’s reached the purpose the place, unbelievably, some younger individuals discuss surviving mass shootings within the plural. I can’t start to understand what it was like for these MSU college students who had been Oxford Excessive Faculty college students a little bit greater than a 12 months in the past, or perhaps a Sandy Hook scholar ten years in the past. That’s the place we’re. We’ve developed younger people who find themselves changing into specialists at “run, disguise, battle.”

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I’ve stated for years if we weren’t in a position to change issues after Sandy Hook, then we in all probability by no means will. That’s pessimistic, I do know. However what can we do? And simply as importantly, what can we agree to do?

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen MacDonald has spent plenty of time eager about that within the 14 months because the Oxford capturing — we’re going to speak along with her on this morning. However we’re additionally going to speak concerning the new look in Lansing. The proximity to that constructing made it a pure cease for Michigan State college students, virtually as rapidly because the crime scene tape went up. Can we create change via legal guidelines and laws? Or does this run a lot deeper than that?

You possibly can view the February 19, 2023, episode of Flashpoint within the video participant beneath.