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A deadly shooting on December 13, 2025, tore through Brown University’s Barus & Holley engineering building during finals, leaving at least two students dead and nine others wounded as terrified classmates hid and campuses went into lockdown. Officials described chaotic scenes as students sheltered in place while city and federal law enforcement assembled to hunt the shooter.
Within hours, authorities scrambled to identify a suspect and later detained a person of interest as footage and images circulated showing a figure in dark clothing moving through the building. Law enforcement cautioned the public that evidence was still being gathered and that details about the individual’s connection to the campus remained unclear.
Conservative commentators on Newsmax and elsewhere have rightly demanded answers and pointed out that this could have been a targeted attack, not random violence, a possibility worthy of immediate, serious investigation by the FBI and local police. From a hard-nosed security perspective, the question of motive matters: if this was political violence, it marks another dangerous escalation in a country where hostility toward differing views sometimes turns deadly.
Even as the pundits and politicians debate motive, the larger picture is grim — campus shootings are part of a rising pattern of violence on American campuses that can no longer be dismissed as isolated tragedies. The nation must confront the hard truth that schools and universities are becoming softer targets, and the cycle of outrage-and-rhetoric that follows each massacre does nothing to keep students safe.
The reporting so far shows clear security lapses: unlocked outer doors during exam hours and an openness that left students exposed when someone with malicious intent slipped in. Universities that treat openness as a sacred value need to stop pretending ideology protects them from reality; policy and security must follow common sense rather than fashionable slogans.
This moment calls for real leadership, not cheap platitudes. Law enforcement must be given the resources and authority to follow every lead, campuses must reassess entry and screening procedures, and public officials should stop weaponizing tragedies for political points until the facts are known and the families of victims have been properly served by justice.
