It seems as though it is now the norm to turn on the news and see a headline about a group of young people who were slain in a public place by a hooded figure wielding a semi automatic weapon. There have been over a dozen of these shootings in America since 2012 alone, and the frequency of them is increasing with the first five months of 2014, already bringing society multiple blood baths.

As both state officials and congress scramble for answers it seems as though this nation couldn’t be more divided. While the left is calling for stricter gun control, the right seems to think more guns in the properly trained hands is the answer.

The controversy about solving America’s shooting problem hasn’t stayed outside of the student body. Kaneland High School students are just as divided as the rest of the country on what is causing our problems, and how to stop them.

Julia Lemp, an incoming junior at KHS seems to think the accessibility of guns is the problem.

“Background checks on people who are buying guns would be good or not selling guns to people just for the heck of it,” Lemp said.

Aimee Frost is a junior at KHS, and a gun owner. She doesn’t think that gun control is a solution to the problem.

“It doesn’t matter how many laws and restrictions you’re gonna make, the people who are going to use the guns for bad things are still gonna get them. They don’t care about obeying the law with other things so why will they follow the gun laws,” Frost said.

Those against gun control turn to other reasons for the increase of shootings.

“I think the media is partially to blame because of how much they talk about it. Some of the crazy people doing them are so messed up and they just want to be ‘famous’,” Frost said.

Senior, Chucky Liss, however, was quick to defend the media, quoting from one of his favorite movies.

“As for the movie aspect causing the violence, ‘Movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative’,” said Liss. This quote originally is muttered on screen from the popular horror movie “Scream.”

Kaneland’s varied responses to the shootings appropriately demonstrates that of the rest of the country is divided, and until a solution comes into play that everyone can agree upon, the bloodshed shows no sign of slowing down.