...people question whether guns should be allowed on campus or not. “What the press called the “Virginia Tech Massacre” changed the narrative of, and participants in, the national guns-on-campus debate.” (Birnbaum) There are two sides to this never ending battle; the pro-gun people and the anti-gun people. These two sides portray as being the opposite of each other, with many protestors on each side. Allowing students and teachers with conceal and carry guns on campus would benefit the school and help eliminate mass shootings. Having patrons with a conceal and carry permit with guns on campus would reduce the mass scale of shootings. If there for example, 100 people on campus that have a gun at one time, the ability to act quickly will prevent active shooters from being able to target a multitude of victims. These patrons would be able to...
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...are in agreement or disagreement on allowing student carrying guns on campus. Although Guns shouldn’t be allowed on campus because a campus is considered a safe zone. The state of Texas is considering about having concealed or open carry weapons on campus but many believe it’s a great thing but in reality it’s not due to the fact that It is very rare for a shooting to happen on campus, people with guns around campus can easily escalate, and student will feel unsecure. Over the years it has shown that a campus or university is very safe due to it being a gun free zone. Also it is rare for a shooting to happen on a campus. The reason why it’s rare is because students aren’t allowed to carry weapons around the campus zone. Although there might not be a lot of securities around but having many students in a facility it is hard for them to carry a weapon without going unnoticed. It’s also safe knowing that students that attends college are known to be good students due to the...
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...Faculty members should not be allowed to have a concealed weapon on campus for the same reason students shouldn’t be allowed. A faculty member can try to harm others the same as a student, but with a concealed weapon that would just help the process along. A professor could be angry for something that occurred off campus, but take it out on the students on campus. The anger may not be just yelling anymore, it could turn very violent very easy. Concealed weapons on campus in the possession of faculty members would be a huge distraction to the students. The students are in college trying to learn, but for some it may be very difficult knowing that your professor has a handgun with him. Instead of listening, the students may be coming up with...
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...“Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror” (Eliot Spitzer). There is no way in telling what peoples intentions are in this world. Allowing firearms on college campuses make it easier for those who don’t have good intentions harm the people surrounding them. College campuses are supposed to be heartwarming, comfortable, and safe. Allowing firearms on campus is not a good idea; there have been many cases on gun shooting occurring on campuses. On august 1, 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower with three rifles, two pistols, and sawed-off shotgun (UT Tower). Charles Whitman was a 25-year-old architectural engineering major and an ex-marine; who had already murdered his mother and his...
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...4 December 2015 Fostering a Concealed Campus In 2007 during the Virginia Tech Shooting, a boy’s best-friend’s brother was there, in one of the classrooms that the gunman targeted. He escaped but this information gave him chills. That boy’s name is Jeff. Why is it that issues don’t matter until a horrifying story has a personal connection to its readers that it causes them to fully gasp the situation? There are many alternatives to students carrying weapons on campus. Advocates for guns on campus say that it will make the environment safer, but in reality only the students and faculty can make a campus safer. If someone sees something, they should say something. Responsibility is the first method of defense, not guns. There are over 4,400 colleges and universities in the United States, the majority of these do not allow students or faculty to carry guns on campus. The states that allow students and faculty to carry firearms on college property are Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin. Only Utah and Colorado have explicit laws about allowing concealed firearms on campus, but leave the ultimate decision up to schools to decide whether to allow guns on campus or not. Twenty other states allow schools to decide on allowing guns of any type on campus. This leaves students confused where they can and cannot carry firearms across America. In 2001, the U.S. Department of Education conducted a study that determined that the homicide rate at post-secondary...
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...Texas Campus Carry Texas Campus Carry has been a major topic of debate as of late. Many of those who support Campus Carry believe that concealed handguns allow licensed adults to defend themselves and protect others in the event of a crisis. These supporters believe gun laws only restrict law abiding citizens from their 2nd amendment rights with minimal effect on criminal gun owners. However; many anti-gun activists believe that more guns are not the answer to a gun problem and a Campus Carry law may increase accidental discharges, violence, as well as youth suicides. The University of Texas massacre fifty years ago is a prime example of this heated issue on both sides of the gun debate. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman climbed the University of Texas Tower, in Austin, and in a span of 96 minutes fired 150 high-powered rounds of ammunition down into unsuspecting university students and faculty. Those nearby heard "strange noises" and thought nothing of it until they saw the bodies and blood on the sidewalks. The shooter killed and wounded nearly 50 people that day (Lavergne). A similar occurrence happened on a Monday morning April 2007, on the campus of Virginia...
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...Reasons to Avoid Shooting Tragedy in Campus Gun is the most dangerous weapon in the entire world, and it causes a lot of people into bloody tragedy when someone is killed. Gun is the weapon tote by officer policemen and usually at war used by soldiers all around the world. As soon as I discuss gun with friends, everybody has the same voice that the Unites States is a value freedom and democracy country. As we known that the law of the Unites States allow citizens have right to tote a gun at home, which means that it protects us in the proper situation, but the law not allow citizens to tote gun wherever they go. However, gun is not a common weapon permitted it to used or tote by citizens at the others counties by law policy like Asian...
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...has been robbed. His expensive laptop and textbooks are no longer there. His hand fingers the gun as he thinks about the people who are responsible and how he can get revenge. Imagine being a college student, hearing of thieves that steal textbooks and computers. You think that having a legal gun offers you a sense of protection and it scares the other thieves. Now imagine yourself as a stressed out college student who has a hard time controlling your emotions. One night your future is taken away from you and your put in a difficult predicament. The gun that you own assures you that you can get revenge. College students should not be allowed to have guns on campus. Allowing a young adult to own a gun on school campus endangers the life of other students and people. As a mother, I wouldn’t want to attend a college where reckless young adults are allowed to have guns. Not all college students are mature enough to handle the responsibility and repercussions that comes with owning a gun. There is also the question of how mentally stable they are. The stress of working and college exams can cause someone to do something they might regret, and if that person is allowed to own a gun, they are not only threat to someone else, but to their selves also. If college students feel unsafe, a solution would be to improve security. As a college student, would you rather your peers own a gun or the professionals? If college campuses hired more police officers, they could keep a watch on...
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...The average college student’s backpack probably contains a laptop, spirals, and textbooks. As of right now, you will not find a firearm, but what if that changed? Ever since the death of 32 innocent people on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007, state legislators nationwide have constructed a bill to allow individuals to carrying concealed weapons on campus, including inside dorms and classrooms. The bill has failed to pass on 55 separate occasions in 29 different states. Recently, however, there has been a push to legalize the concealed carrying of handguns on college campuses. If this law passed, it would only increase the risk of a shooting on campus rather than hinder it. According to the list on Wikipedia, since 2000 there have been approximately 149 school shootings in the United States alone. The majority of these aggravated rampages resulted only in injuries, many still resulted in loss of life. While the vast majority of these shootings occur in grade schools, many still occur on college campuses. While campus shooting may be far and few between, is one not enough to show that more guns is not the solution to the problem? This may be little more than a statistic to...
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...Abstract Universities and College campus are a hot topic because every year they attract and house hundreds of thousands of not always quite mature teens and young adults. The perception is that the Campus Carry Law will not be very effective and could quite possibly back fire on innocent faculty and student body members, victimizing anyone who may come in contact with one of these radically violent individuals intent on harming people. (2015) Arrigo Bruce and Acheson Austin Contemporary Justice Review, Concealed carry bans and the America college Campus. Statistically numbers are down when looking back over the past couple decades. Since 1990 there have been 143 school shooting related instances and over 450 deaths and injuries. (2006) Norton Elia and Jennifer Ansier, USA Today, Behind the Bloodshed. The very fact any person could possibly be murdered or injured by another person at any moment in America has always been known and terrifies the majority of citizens. Like many Americans I have to ask, what we can do as a Nation, one unit, to better insure the public safety of every individual. To understand this problem we must go to the root. The American System and its five sets of institutions which ultimately control American way of life. The five institutions are legal, political, economic, educational and sociocultural. All of which too often combine to leave our efforts short of progression. Introduction The issue with gun laws and the legal system have to do with the...
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...has had many problems with gun control. Many shootings have occurred causing many deaths, including children. Some have been at elementary schools, college campuses, and even at a movie theater. What makes people think that by allowing college students to have guns on their campus will help solve this problem? Instead of helping, it might make things worse. There should not be any type of weapon on college campuses. There should be more restrictions on permitting guns rather than allowing more people to have access to them. Guns on college campuses should be prohibited because it can damage people’s emotional wellbeing, cause accidents, and raise crime rates. In the Constitution, there were ten Amendments added to it which gave people certain rights and privileges. These amendments are known as the Bill of Rights. It was passed by Congress on September 25, 1789, and was later ratified on December 15, 1791 (Amendment II Right to Bear Arms). The second Amendment of the United States Constitution states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary...
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...The issue of gun control is a very serious matter because of the danger that can come with firing a gun. Guns are weapons, and although they can be used for protection, accidents can happen. This is one of the reasons that there should be some form of restriction on the use and carrying of guns in public places. Texas should not become an Open Carry state. This is not to say that citizens and licensed gun holders should not be allowed to carry their weapons, but concealed carry is a better plan of action in my opinion. Personally, I am not comfortable with seeing someone, other than a police officer, with a gun in public. Bad decisions and gun related accidents can happen in an instant. I think there is not a lot that Congress and the Texas...
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...consideration and minimal action. Leading up to this bill there were numerous occurrences of fatal campus shootings and massacres, passing this bill would in hopes allow students to protect themselves if a situation arises and/or help stop the progression of a shooting. Although the students on campus could potentially lesson the number of victims injured or worse, there was also the potential of the opposite to happen, more guns...
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...Concealed Carry on Campus: Yea or Nay? 1 Concealed Carry on Campus: Yea or Nay? Toni Struve COM/155 University Composition and Communication I May 6, 2012 Kathleen Zurich Concealed Carry on Campus: Yea or Nay? 2 Abstract This essay debates the pros and cons of allowing concealed carry weapons on campuses. Both sides have relevant information that supports their point of view. I have presented data from both sides of this issue and leave it to the reader to decide which argument they will support. Concealed Carry on Campus: Yea or Nay? 3 In the war over guns, the first casualty was the truth (Kleck, 2009). Could the results of the tragedies at Columbine, Virginia Tech, and the private college in California been lessened if concealed weapons were permitted on campuses? Studies have been conducted, but there have been no definitive results. Each side of this question can quote statistics and studies that will prove their point of view. There is no absolute answer to this question, but many people believe that the outcome may have been much different if concealed weapons were present on campus. As with every issue of this magnitude, there are two sides to this question. The debate about whether to allow concealed weapons on campus raises questions of personal safety, legality and are gun-free zones really safer. Students for Concealed Carry is a nationwide organization made up of over 43,000 students, professors...
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...them have taken place in college campuses (Tragic List of School Shootings Since '99). As much as we don’t want to admit it, campus shootings are most likely to happen again and they will. However, there are ways to prevent it rather than having more guns on campus. “On June 1, 2015, Gov. Greg Abbott signed S.B. 11, also known as the "campus carry" law. S.B. 11 provides that license holders may carry a concealed handgun throughout university campuses, starting Aug. 1, 2016” (Campus Carry). People are still debating whether or not allowing campus carry was the right thing to do. In most cases, it wasn’t. Allowing students, professors, and administration to be given the right of campus carry leads to more violent crimes, higher taxes, and it inhibits free speech....
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