Insecurity grips Indian students in the US as four students have been killed in the past year, which started with the Virginia Tech incident. The two most shocking incidents for me were of the two Louisiana State students who were found murdered in their apartment, and of the Indian student who was shot in Duke. I am rather surprised that a reputed college like Duke is unsafe. I’m flabbergasted that a certain student paid tens of thousand of dollars to come to college to kill someone else. The psyche of such a person seems askewed.
I am unsure whether their ethnicity and background has to do with the murder, but it is still rather shocking especially since I am an Indian student studying abroad. Security in American colleges has been flailing ever since Virginia Tech. I think the problem with the number of shootings in America is the lack of gun control. It is rather easy for American citizens to obtain a gun. I agree guns are sometimes needed if there is a threat to personal security, but I think they should not be available to everyone. The procedure for an application should be based on the location of a person and whether he/she is facing imminent threat.
“Shootings that left six students, including the gunman, dead at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb on 14 February shocked NIU master’s student Ravi Kiran. Things like this don’t happen in India, says Mr Kiran. ” This is because not every common joe has a gun or can get a gun. In India, you need to be rich, under threat, or have mob connections, and most of us don’t.
