No Guns on Campus
For this essay, I will be discussing the merits of allowing teachers to possess hand guns on school campuses around the nation. Recently, in response to school shootings, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has recommended that teachers be allowed to carry hand guns on school premises as a deterrent for school shootings. In this paper, I will provide research, statistics and expert testimony that will counter this claim and support my claim that teachers should not be allowed to carry guns on school premises. As a brief background, school shootings have been receiving an abundance of attention, given the ever increasing incidents. In an effort to better define the issue, CNN reviewed media reports and databases and found that since January 1, 2009, there have been at least 288 reported in the United States. In contrast to the other six G7 countries, the United States had 57 times more shootings than all of the other countries combined (Gabrow and Rose). …show more content…
Likewise, 70 percent of those schools had conducted student drills. Despite this, the number of shooting deaths have increased dramatically. In analyzing the data, the CDC found that “93.5 percent of the shooters were male; five students used two firearms each; 26.8 percent of the shooters committed suicide; 69.1 percent of the shooters perpetrated a homicide; and of those homicides, 15.6 percent of shooters killed multiple people (Gabrow and Rose).
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization that advocates for gun control, “in more than half of the incidents, the shooters intentionally injured or killed at least one other person with a gun (Gabrow and Rose). Interestingly, although almost one in six shootings occurred after a confrontation or verbal argument, 12 shootings were unintentional (Gabrow and
For this essay, I will be discussing the merits of allowing teachers to possess hand guns on school campuses around the nation. Recently, in response to school shootings, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has recommended that teachers be allowed to carry hand guns on school premises as a deterrent for school shootings. In this paper, I will provide research, statistics and expert testimony that will counter this claim and support my claim that teachers should not be allowed to carry guns on school premises. As a brief background, school shootings have been receiving an abundance of attention, given the ever increasing incidents. In an effort to better define the issue, CNN reviewed media reports and databases and found that since January 1, 2009, there have been at least 288 reported in the United States. In contrast to the other six G7 countries, the United States had 57 times more shootings than all of the other countries combined (Gabrow and Rose). …show more content…
Likewise, 70 percent of those schools had conducted student drills. Despite this, the number of shooting deaths have increased dramatically. In analyzing the data, the CDC found that “93.5 percent of the shooters were male; five students used two firearms each; 26.8 percent of the shooters committed suicide; 69.1 percent of the shooters perpetrated a homicide; and of those homicides, 15.6 percent of shooters killed multiple people (Gabrow and Rose).
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization that advocates for gun control, “in more than half of the incidents, the shooters intentionally injured or killed at least one other person with a gun (Gabrow and Rose). Interestingly, although almost one in six shootings occurred after a confrontation or verbal argument, 12 shootings were unintentional (Gabrow and