3 Shot at Phoenix College; Suspect Arrested

Why after all of the recent school and campus shootings that have happened across the country are college and university administrators still relying on unarmed security and "no gun zone" signs to keep their students, staff and faculty safe? Haven't any of these highly educated people who are supposedly concerned about campus safety realized yet that the "that can't happen here" mentality is a very big liability these days?

They spend thousands of dollars here in Washington on fire safety and earthquake preparedness, yet 33 of the 34 community and technical colleges in Washington still have unarmed officers working on campus. In the last 8 years there have been at least 4 campus shootings in Washington where people have died, and only one serious earthquake. Yet the people responsible for ensuring public safety on the community college campuses all act like a bad guy with a gun could not harm their campus because of the "that can't happen here" mentality. So the blinders go on, the heads get stuck in the sand and the students, staff and faculty of the campuses wait for the next active shooter to go on a rampage in Washington. The administrators would rather let people be killed than to admit their vulnerability or take steps to deter or quickly stop an active shooter on their campus.

Unarmed police or security on a college campus these days is outrageous. Bad guys aren't stupid; they are going to go where they have the least likelihood of being stopped. So maintaining unarmed public safety officers at the community college level is only going to embolden criminals like this to come to their campus and commit horrific crimes. Because all the unarmed officers can do is stand there and watch people die, or be killed themselves trying to stop someone with a gun with their bare hands. And I hope when it does happen again, because it will, that those same administrators who refused to put cops on their campuses when they had a chance get their collective asses sued off for their willful indifference to the problem and their negligence in trying to minimize it. I for one would like to see them rationalize their "no armed officers on campus" policy while the blood of the innocent victims is being hosed from their "safe and secure" campus' sidewalks.

Honestly! After all of the chaotic shootings in America, you'd think that they would learn to arm campus cops. I want to know what was wrong with that guy.