hallway with a gun strapped on your hip? Would you still feel safe about going to school? Many states are considering it being legal for college professors and other staff members to carry weapons on campus. It’s been said that Texas has already made it legal. There are so many questions I have‚ with me being a college student myself. I’m not sure I agree that guns should be paraded around by our professors. After the tragedies that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School‚ guns have no place in
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Allowing Guns on Campus Will Prevent Shootings‚ Rape Tyler Ohmann A graduate student leaving an evening class walks along the poorly lit sidewalk to the parking lot—it is a long‚ cold walk in the pitch-black night‚ and the student grows wary as shadows begin lurking in the distance. Suddenly‚ someone jumps out in front of the student‚ immediately threatening her with force. Before the student can react‚ she is raped and robbed. This is a very scary scenario‚ and one that happens on the SCSU campus
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Texas poised to pass bill allowing guns on campus http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/texas-legislature/headlines/20110220-texas-poised-to-pass-bill-allowing-guns-on-campus.ece Just about anyone who currently attends a college or university in the state of Texas knows about the bill co-signed by more than half the members of the Texas House of Representatives to allow students and faculty at universities to carry concealed weapons. “More than half the members of the Texas House have signed
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Ronald Anderson ENG 101 23 June 2013 Guns on Campus The rise of Gun violence in America is at an all-time high and as a result gun ownership has catapulted alongside this rise. Today our institutions of higher learning are faced with a new threat to the welfare and safety of student and that is the paranoia of some students and teachers who feel the need to “protect themselves” by carrying a firearm. This is the beginning of the end; the traditional college experience as we
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Guns on College Campus Should guns be allowed on college campus? Kenton L. McGowen Abstract This paper will determine whether guns have a place on college‚ and school campuses. The conclusion that the paper reaches is that students who have guns will be tempted to use them‚ especially at universities and colleges that are full of drug use‚ stress‚ and anxiety. The mixture of guns into a formula like that is simply not conducive to a safe environment. This paper will take evidence from
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article‚ “Texas Lawmakers Pass a Bill Allowing Guns at Colleges”‚ written by Manny Fernandez and Dave Montgomery‚ from the The New York Times‚ the author discuss about whether guns should be allowed on campus. In the article‚ they talk about two opposing sides‚ where one side supports the campus carry law and the other disagrees with the campus carry law. State representative Jonathan Stickland said‚ “An armed society is a safe society‚ so any time you have gun control‚ there is far more opportunity
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law making it legal to carry a gun on college campuses. The people trying to get the law passed say that letting someone carry a concealed weapon will allow the weapon carrier to protect themselves if a shooter comes to their campus. Those against allowing a person to carry a gun on campus want to protect people from gun accidents. Guns on campus would definitely make me think twice about doing violence on a college campus. It should be legal to carry a gun on campus. In Arizona‚ the law to make
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concealed weapons permit on campus. Some claim that their rights have been violated because most college campus forbids the use of any firearm or weapon on campus. The right to carry a gun is not the problem here‚ but rather or not people would allow guns on college campuses. It is our right‚ as the Constitution states‚ to grant citizens the right to bear arms. Being from the South‚ I am no stranger to seeing guns from time-to-time‚ but it is not appropriate for guns to be in a powerless and defenseless
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Guns on College Campuses Imagine a student or instructor being allowed to bring a gun to campus. Imagine what would happen if that student or instructor were having a bad day or had a major disagreement with someone. The possibility that something disastrous could happen is quite real. Measures should be enacted that address such a situation. By banning guns on campuses‚ tragedies can be prevented. Guns should not be allowed on college campuses because they will increase violence‚ raise the number
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enforcement should carry a gun on campus‚ and not the general public. School shootings are infrequent‚ and college campuses usually considered very safely while allowing concealed weapons on campus. Still I agree that a few students that are trustworthy‚ responsible and should be permitted to carry‚ you change the rules for some and not allow others. I trust there are many people with a concealed weapons permit that should not be able to do so. But if this does happen‚ the campus should keep a record and
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