When you think of what answers NIU needs, what answers that the Huskie community absolutely yearns for, the obvious one is “why”, in its many different forms. Sam touched on the why question in her first hand account. Sadly, the most important why question may never be fully answered. And that, is difficult for those left behind to cope with.
School shootings are symptoms of social problems.
We have problems in this country and this year’s unprecedented election has given issues a platform they won’t likely receive for some time afterward.
People need to know what those problems are so this sort of random violence doesn’t happen again.
That struggle and fight, to establish what went wrong and why could lead to division. I hope it does not.
We hope to reduce division. So when speaking about these topics, Please respect others.
This incident has incited debates relating to Gun Control, Mental Health Care, Security and Privacy. We will be letting people vent their feelings about the necessity of calls for change.
Some goals that we have with this blog are:
To allow people that feel they have been misrepresented to share there feeling in an unfiltered way.
To shed some light on some of the things we could have done differently.
To respect others in whatever form of grieving they need.
To gain some understanding.
Please feel free to comment, send an email to mike@niuneedsanswers.com if you would like to submit a post.
I am searching for an explanation.
There’s something wrong with a disassociated world where we have the technology to have greater interconnection but no one really knows each other any more.
It seems now that Steve Kazmierczak didn’t want people searching into his phone and computer so he took steps to thwart any investigation. This makes things more difficult for some grasping to figure out why.
We may never know why this young man snapped.
We may be able to find out what societal problems we have that leads people to lash out in violent ways for attention.
We will make the best of a horrific situation.
