are needed like a battleground where we should have to protect ourselves from each other. To be depend more guns on school property when the guns are causing the problem is a logical fallacy. In this paper i will explore the causes of school shooting and why they are so rampant in the us, and whether the introduction of more guns will eliminate this threat. Additionally i will elaborate on the effects of having these guns allowed on college campuses.
Differently level of education are calling for gun in different ways, elementary, middle, and high schools want their teachers to be armed while want their student to be armed. So for the sake of this essay i will only be talking about the issue of concealed carry on college campuses.
There are more “incidents [of school shooting resulting in deaths in] the US than in all the other 36 countries put together.” (Foxman)
Many have hypothesised about what is causing the epidemic of adolescents and young adults to rebel in such a groques way.
Multiple experts have pointed to mental illness and the limited resources to help people with their mental health issues. The virginia tech shooter who took the life of 33 people including himself, was “adjudicated as a mental defective” before purchasing the the guns he used in the massacre legally. (Siebel 320) This is just one explain of how gun control laws have failed to detect those who shouldn't be in possession of such a deadly weapon and how something so defeating could have been prevented if mental health was taken more …show more content…
seriously.
However mental illness is not the only causing factors in school shootings. Like i mentioned earlier there are many loopholes in the system that just doesn't do enough to prevent gun from getting into the hands of the wrong people. For example two high school seniors purchased $500 dollars worth of guns at a gunshow and later on went on to commit what would later be called the columbine massacre.
The awakening of the campus concealed carry movement came after string of shootings on college campuses which made people to start to question the gun-free campuses, which colleges have been sporting for centuries.
The shootings began to make the students feel insecure in the safety that the school can provide if a situation would occur, therefore leading them to want to protect themselves like comic book vigilantes. The fact is if a situation occurs, civilian having guns also will complicate the situation further and will make if difficult for law enforcement. Such as during the university of texas shooting on August 1, 1966, where civilian shot at charles
whitman. “Civilians shooting up at the tower hindered Whitman for a period of time, but after police made it up into the tower the ground fire became a hazard.” (Hamilton-Lynne)
The effect of the gun will be the reverse of the purpose the movement, as only upperclassmen can legally obtain guns many 20 years and under students will feel threatened by their older peers who may or may not have guns. It’s incoherent to me that people think guns belong in educational institutions. The nature of college is an emotional roller coaster of drugs, depression, binge drinking, and sexual assault, why would we or should we add guns into that mix. Guns will give power to the sexual predators, a faster method to suicidal students, lead to more shoting by allowing the wrong people to get guns by theft of other student, and an another type of drunken or intoxicated mistake multiple college students can make using them which can end up deadly and coasting them theirs and others futures. (Siebel 323)
To conclude my idea the feeling of not being safe is only a feeling it is not something that is quantifiable and should not be a main reason for a major decision, especially when will affect a whole college including faculty.