On Thursday, Oct. 1,Oregon was hit with a devastating tragedy. A 26-year-old gunman (who will go unnamed throughout this article) entered Oregon Community College with intent to harm. He killed 9 students, along with one teacher, and injured seven.

The shooter’s supposed method of selection, according to one of the injured student’s father, was asking students what their religion is, if they were Christian they were shot in the head, if they were any other religion or they simply didn’t answer the question, they were shot in the leg.

The night before the attack, there was an anonymous tip posted to social media reading:

As I was sitting in my lecture on Friday morning, following the shooting, I had some thoughts that angered me. I retraced my steps of going to class. I parked near my building with no one or nothing to verify who I was, grabbed my backpack that could have been carrying a generous number of dangerous items or weapons, and just walked straight into the building without getting a single cautious look.

Coincidentally, my instructor discussed what we would do if a predator walked straight through our lecture hall doors because absolutely no plan had been previously administered. As a class, we came up with no reasonable solution that would get us all out alive and unharmed.

If a student, or anyone for that matter, wanted to plan an attack, it would be embarrassingly easy to go through with, to say the least.

How many more of these tragedies need to occur before we have a change in the system? I’m not talking about gun control laws. I’m talking about security and organization.

These school massacres are no new phenomenon for the U.S., and I specify the U.S. because we are the only country in the world where classroom attacks are this common and easily executed. The first known school shooting in the United States was as early as 1764, known as the Pontiac Rebellion School Massacre in Pennsylvania where nine students and one teacher were shot and killed.

Following this tragedy has been thousands of other school shootings, and this disturbing trend only seems to get more popular as the years progress. At least 74 school attacks have taken place since the Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre in December of 2012, where 20 innocent children and six staff members were shot and killed. That is an absurd amount of lives lost and affected.

Each time one of these attacks are executed, our country reacts the same exact way. We grieve for the victims and the loved ones, and our leaders give their condolences. No action is taken. It’s incredibly disturbing that the shooting at Oregon Community College probably won’t be the last school massacre America faces, and little will be done to try to make it the last.

We are an ignorant and naive country.