Is it a religious issue, gun control issue, or a mental health issue? These are questions the average American just cannot answer. On Thursday, October 1, another heartbreaking event, that would cause yet another gun debate uproar occurred. Chris Harper-Mercer, the shooter behind the deadly rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, shot and killed nine people ranging of the ages of 18 to 67. Apparently he committed suicide after exchanging gunfire with officers, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said Saturday.

Bonnie Schaan said at a news conference Saturday, that her daughter, Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, told her the shooter handed an envelope to one person in the room and told that student he was the lucky one and to stand in the corner.

Fitzgerald was asked her religion and when she didn’t answer, she was shot in the back, her mother said. The bullet clipped one lung and lodged in a kidney, which doctors removed. Her daughter survived by playing dead, Schaan said. Fitzgerald remains in critical condition.

The news of yet another school shooting could seem like daily news to most people my age, but to me, it is more than terrifying. After receiving threats early in September, our school began enforcing light precautions such as entry only being allowed through the PAC doors and having to buzz into the office in order to enter the building. Although a school shooting has never occurred around here, it’s not any less likely to happen here than it is somewhere else, so are we prepared if that occasion were to present itself? I do not believe so. I couldn’t tell you the last time I was in a school that practiced a lock down. Yes, we are high school students and yes, we know what is going on had an event like this occur, but if we never walk through the procedures, mass chaos will occur if the occasion arises.