Having guns on campus will only be a more convenient way for students to commit suicide‚ make it difficult to determine the first shooter in a school shooting if someone shoots back in self-defense‚ and students tend to react without thinking‚ this gives the students the chance to shoot someone because the wrong thing was said. Colleges are meant to be safe‚ adding guns on campuses could be a concern to many parents when sending their children off to college. Guns should not be allowed on universities
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Guns on Campus Eight states have now been granted permission to carry guns around college campuses‚ but does that mean it is safe? Even when some students feel safer with a gun‚ it could actually cause more harm than good. Javier Auyero‚ a professor of Latin American sociology at University of Texas‚ Austin‚ says campus-goers will actually be faced with riskier environments if given permission to freely carry a gun around campus. It would certainly not be convenient for the allowance of campus
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Banning guns on campus Concealed carry vs. colleges is a story about don’t allow guns in campus. The gun control and gun rights is becoming a more and more popular topic after few gun shooting tragedies happened in schools‚ people are starting to worry about the security in schools. This story is part of editorials and debates in USA TODAY‚ and this story is published on September 27‚ 2012. There is no exactly author’s name in the story. In the beginning‚ the story has an introduction about students
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Guns On Campus Ever since school shootings on campuses many people have been skeptical about guns in the wrong hands of people. David Burnett writer of "Students Should Have the Right to Carry Guns on College Campuses."‚ agrees with the fact that students should be allowed to have guns on campus‚ for the use of self defense‚ for decreasing the crimes committed‚ and because colleges aren’t as safe as you think. Although Darby Dickerson writer of "Students Should Not Be Allowed to Carry Guns on
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Guns on Campus On April 16 of 2007‚ a man named Cho Seung-Hui entered the campus of Virginia Tech University. He walked around the school carrying a gun. Seung-Hui shot and killed 2 students in their dorm room. Within two hours later‚ he had shot classrooms full of students. 30 more young adults’ lives were taken that day. Cho also took his own life after the shooting. Later we would refer to this as the Virginia Tech Massacre (source # 5). Tragedies like this are sparking controversial conversations
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Bibliography: Guns On Campus Cavanaugh‚ Michael R. "Student Attitudes Toward Concealed Handguns on Campus at 2 Universities." American Joumal of Public Health 102.12 (2012): 2245-2247. Web. 22 Mar. 2015. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519323/>. This Article discusses weather or not the carrying of a concealed handgun should be allowed on campus‚ And the explanation to the safety of the students and how they feel about it. Studies have shown that students carrying guns are more
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Guns On Campus Will having students carrying handguns on campus actually make students feel safer? Texas Senate recently passed a bill that all students at least 21 years of age with a license to carry concealed handguns will be allowed to carry their weapons on college and university campuses. Legislation allowing handguns on campus violates the sense of protection students feel when at school‚ leaving many questioning civility. In April of 2007‚ Virginia Tech experienced one of the deadliest
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questions to different students and recording the data in the table‚ it came to the conclusion that most students did not approve of the new Texas campus carry law that will be taking place by August 1st. From March 10 to March 11‚ I asked sixteen students the same question regarding the campus carry law and only five students approved the law being used in campus which is 31.3%. According to the Dictionary‚ “Margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey’s results
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Concealed Carry Weapons on Campus: Ethnography Project Over the course of 20 years‚ there have been numerous school shootings‚ which has resulted in thousands of lives ending to quickly. Which leads me to my central focus of this ethnography project. I wanted to determine how students across the country attending different universities felt about implementing a safety course‚ which will allow a student the ability to conceal carry a firearm on campus. In the criminal justice field‚ individuals are
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different opinions on guns being allowed on campus. Some think it would cause more conflict and some think that it would protect the students just in case of an incident. I think guns should be allowed on school campus as long as there’s a fair amount of rules applied. My first reason why I think guns should be allowed to be carried by teachers on school campuses is because it could save lives. The thing about this though is that if there was a school shooter on the campus‚ would he suspect a teacher
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