Brown University is in Rhode Island, one of the anti-gun states. There are no guns allowed on campus.
It is a gun free zone within a gun free city within a gun free state. Yet all of those things failed.
To provide a sense of security, the college webpage has a section on security cameras. They list some 800 security cameras and where each is located and their field of view.
Which is precisely the sort of information a bad guy would want to know because it shows not only the areas that are under surveillance but also the blind spots. Which the shooter took advantage of.
Which brings up the experiment done by a news organization several years ago to “prove” that guns don’t save lives. They told the selected “protector” that they were the only person with a gun in the room. That there was going to be a mass shooting event, simulated, and they were to stop the shooter.
Everybody except for the protector was in on the experiment, unbeknownst to the protector. Many of the protectors bragged to their “student” neighbors about being the protector.
Of course, when the bad guy entered the room, the protector never successfully stopped them. The entire experiment was set up for failure.
This was compared to a similar experiment set up in Texas. In the Texas experiment, the protectors were chosen at random; the level of experience the different protectors had varied from none to significant. They used simunation (blue guns that shoot nasty little pellets).
What they found was that the total number of victims was reduced in all cases. That in some situations the attack was stopped shortly after it began. There were no false shootings.
One of the interesting sequences was when the bad guy came into the room with the good guy. The good guy put multiple rounds on target before being “killed”. During the debrief, they asked why he only took body shots after noticing the body armor.
His reply, “I’ve been shot with those things; I wasn’t going to shoot somebody in the face with them.”
The point of this rambling is that guns save lives. This was another example of a gun free zone creating a victim pending zone.
Keep your head on a swivel, things are not getting better.