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Access to guns, mental health should be the focus following Michigan State shooting, Northeastern experts say

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Three students were killed and five others were critically injured by a shooter at Michigan State University on Monday. 

“Our campuses, churches, classrooms and communities should not be battlefields,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told mourners on Wednesday.

James Alan Fox, a Northeastern criminology professor who studies mass killings, says the tragic event puts a focus on student safety.

“There is no denying the horror of the Michigan State University shooting,” says Fox, author of “Violence and security on campus: From preschool through college.” 

Continue reading at Northeastern Global News.

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