Guns Should Be Allowed On Campus Essay
Guns Must Be Allowed On Campus
With college shootings on the rise, the recent debate between colleges is on allowing students and staff to conceal and carry on campus. College students and staff should be permitted to carry guns on campus with a concealed carry license, to protect themselves and others from sexuall assualt, combat school shootings, and make campus safer.
The number of college students who are sexually assaulted is rising and not going away. “One in 5 women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college” according to The National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Men and women are being sexually assaulted at an alarming rate, a firearm would be enough to stop a sexual predator for indefinitely, let alone to threaten them to leave you alone. Another reason students should have firearms is that law enforcement cannot be everywhere at once. When there is a crime happening it can take the police a while to get there, especially if they already have their hands full. According to Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, “Statistics show there are …show more content…
nine sexual assaults per day on campuses nationwide” . It is very likely that a staff member of student would be walking by at least one of those nine assaults. If the staff or student catches a sexual assault in progress they can do something to stop it. If the perpetrator had a weapon it would be very hard to stop them if the staff or student did not also. College massacres have also been on the rise recently.
Since the Columbine massacre the number of school shootings have skyrocketed. If students or staff would have had a weapon that day countless lives would have been saved. The largest organization of active and retired law enforcement officers, PoliceOne asked their officers,what would combat large scale shootings in public the best? Their answer was, “More permissive concealed carry policies for civilians”. The men and women who are protecting the population every day even believe that civilians need concealed weapons. When school shootings happen staff and students have to run, hide, and fight. When the students and staff have to fight, all they have are school supplies and no weapons. Not only would students be able to intervene but protect themselves if they were singled out or targeted, but with cell phones nowadays students can contact each other in seconds, if there are students and staff trapped by a shooter or in danger they can contact their peers to come and help them. Not only would students and staff be able to do something in a school shooting but they could also prevent them.
Allowing guns would make campus safer. Criminals plan out their attacks, if they know that a school has students and staff that are armed, they would not be so inclined to attack that school. Schools that would allow students and staff to carry would stop violent confrontations before they even happened. Allowing staff and students to carry would also stop robberies and break ins. A robber does not just break into a house without finding out information. The robber would find out while gathering information, that the victim has a concealed carry license, which would cause the robber to not target that person. Finally, if students and staff were permitted to carry it would decrease the number of sexuall assualts. Sexual Predators would not want to target women or men who are armed. Sexual predators want easy to get victims without any problems. On the contrary opposers believe guns create more crime. Many people believe that people with concealed carries commit crimes.
However, that is very untrue, “...the University of Colorado (CU), which banned guns, has experienced a dramatic increase in crime. In contrast to CSU's 61 percent drop in the last five years, CU crime is up 37 percent” according to David Burnett, the director of public relations for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. David Burnett proves that banning guns is not the answer, and a gun ban would not work as a deterrent on a college campus. The opposers also believe that concealed carry holders are the ones who are mass shooters but, “There are only two mass public shootings since at least 1950 that have not been part of some other crime where at least four people have been killed in an area where civilians are generally allowed to have guns.” stated John Lott, economist and founder of the Crime Prevention Research
Center.
In conclusion,college students and staff should be permitted to carry guns on campus with a concealed carry license, to prevent crime, make campus safer and, protect themselves and others from sexuall assualt. The numbers of school shootings and sexual assaults are on the rise. Without guns on campus, crimes on colleges can only get worse.
With college shootings on the rise, the recent debate between colleges is on allowing students and staff to conceal and carry on campus. College students and staff should be permitted to carry guns on campus with a concealed carry license, to protect themselves and others from sexuall assualt, combat school shootings, and make campus safer.
The number of college students who are sexually assaulted is rising and not going away. “One in 5 women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college” according to The National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Men and women are being sexually assaulted at an alarming rate, a firearm would be enough to stop a sexual predator for indefinitely, let alone to threaten them to leave you alone. Another reason students should have firearms is that law enforcement cannot be everywhere at once. When there is a crime happening it can take the police a while to get there, especially if they already have their hands full. According to Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, “Statistics show there are …show more content…
nine sexual assaults per day on campuses nationwide” . It is very likely that a staff member of student would be walking by at least one of those nine assaults. If the staff or student catches a sexual assault in progress they can do something to stop it. If the perpetrator had a weapon it would be very hard to stop them if the staff or student did not also. College massacres have also been on the rise recently.
Since the Columbine massacre the number of school shootings have skyrocketed. If students or staff would have had a weapon that day countless lives would have been saved. The largest organization of active and retired law enforcement officers, PoliceOne asked their officers,what would combat large scale shootings in public the best? Their answer was, “More permissive concealed carry policies for civilians”. The men and women who are protecting the population every day even believe that civilians need concealed weapons. When school shootings happen staff and students have to run, hide, and fight. When the students and staff have to fight, all they have are school supplies and no weapons. Not only would students be able to intervene but protect themselves if they were singled out or targeted, but with cell phones nowadays students can contact each other in seconds, if there are students and staff trapped by a shooter or in danger they can contact their peers to come and help them. Not only would students and staff be able to do something in a school shooting but they could also prevent them.
Allowing guns would make campus safer. Criminals plan out their attacks, if they know that a school has students and staff that are armed, they would not be so inclined to attack that school. Schools that would allow students and staff to carry would stop violent confrontations before they even happened. Allowing staff and students to carry would also stop robberies and break ins. A robber does not just break into a house without finding out information. The robber would find out while gathering information, that the victim has a concealed carry license, which would cause the robber to not target that person. Finally, if students and staff were permitted to carry it would decrease the number of sexuall assualts. Sexual Predators would not want to target women or men who are armed. Sexual predators want easy to get victims without any problems. On the contrary opposers believe guns create more crime. Many people believe that people with concealed carries commit crimes.
However, that is very untrue, “...the University of Colorado (CU), which banned guns, has experienced a dramatic increase in crime. In contrast to CSU's 61 percent drop in the last five years, CU crime is up 37 percent” according to David Burnett, the director of public relations for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. David Burnett proves that banning guns is not the answer, and a gun ban would not work as a deterrent on a college campus. The opposers also believe that concealed carry holders are the ones who are mass shooters but, “There are only two mass public shootings since at least 1950 that have not been part of some other crime where at least four people have been killed in an area where civilians are generally allowed to have guns.” stated John Lott, economist and founder of the Crime Prevention Research
Center.
In conclusion,college students and staff should be permitted to carry guns on campus with a concealed carry license, to prevent crime, make campus safer and, protect themselves and others from sexuall assualt. The numbers of school shootings and sexual assaults are on the rise. Without guns on campus, crimes on colleges can only get worse.