When School Should Be Safe: The Tragic Reality of Repeated Campus Shootings

For Mia Tretta, a junior at Brown University, the painful echo of gun violence reverberated again during finals week—this time not in a distant place but on her own college campus. Having survived a mass shooting at Saugus High School in California as a teenager, where two students were killed and she herself was shot in the abdomen, Tretta thought the nightmare was behind her. She was wrong.On a Saturday while studying, emergency alerts began buzzing on her phone: warnings of an incident at Brown’s engineering building. The chilling language of lockdowns and stay-away-from-windows orders brought back memories she never...