The idea of children, teens, and teachers being killed tugs at the heartstrings of many and absorbs individual’s attention. The author effectively uses pathos to engage readers from the beginning of the article to hook the reader to continue to read “Concealed Carry”. Nedzel primarily appeals to reader’s emotions to motivate readers to want to end tragic mass murders of students and…
In Timothy Hsiao’s journal entry “Firmin DeBrabander: Do Guns Make Us Free?”, the author reviews Firmin DeBrabander’s arguments on the controversy regarding the campus carry bill passed in several states, including Texas, which raised the question of whether campus carry is truly effective in decreasing gun violence on campus. In order to put the controversy into context it’s necessary to raise the question on whether the evidences DeBrabander provided were credible or not, and why or why not. To acquire answers to these questions, Hsiao’s entry is an important source to consider as it analyzes the errors in DeBrabander’s argument. The author believes that “DeBrabander’s critique of gun ownership is extremely narrow” and fails to consider and provide empirical data and other forms of evidence to support his argument, thus making it difficult to…
On April 16, 2007, college students on the Virginia Tech University campus witnessed the most deadly mass killing by a single student shooter in the United States history. A senior student killed a whopping thirty-two students, along with wounding seventeen others on the university’s campus. Meanwhile, in 2008, five people were killed and twenty-one were injured on Northern Illinois University campus by a former graduate student. These horrific events brought a nationwide debate and controversy on gun legislation, with one main goal in mind-- how to make college campuses safer. On one hand, the Students For Concealed Carry promote permitting concealed carry on a campus setting for a defense and self protection tool.…
In the state of Texas legislators are hotly debating the benefits of allowing guns on college campuses. There are already several ISD’s in Texas who are considering having armed teachers on campuses. David Thweatt who is the superintendent of Harrold ISD, “…sees his job not only as an educator, but also a protector of the 120 or so kindergarten through 12th grade students in his care”. This discussion carries on across the county today.…
CPL’s on Campus December, 14th, 2012, marks a day when the controversy of gun control, and CPL licences were brought to light by a tragic event. The children and teachers of Sandy Hook Elementary School, were completely unsuspecting of the tragedy that would strike that morning. When the students and teachers should have been celebrating that it was almost christmas break, instead they were locked in their classrooms in terror. As a man broke into the school, threatening all of their lives. Sadly 6 teacher lost their lives doing whatever they could to protect their students, including Victoria Leigh Soto a first grade teacher at the school it has been found that “When she became aware there was a gunman in the school, she hid her first-graders in closets and cabinets, then told the shooter they were in the gym.…
Who would be there if you were getting robbed or even someone shooting at your school? Police would come eventually but what about the time until then? According to At Issue, from the SIRS data base laws vary from state to state concerning concealed carry. But what is concealed carry? Concealed carry is where one has the ability to carry a firearm in the public without getting into trouble.…
S.B. No. 11 is an act that was made into law that pertains to the “carrying of handguns on the campuses of and certain other locations associated with institutions of higher education. However, the institution of higher education in this state may establish rules, regulations, or other provisions concerning the storage of hand guns in dormitories or other residential facilities” and the president of the institution “may establish reasonable rules, regulations, or other provisions regarding the carrying of concealed hand guns by license holders on the campus of the institution”. In layman's terms, any person with a concealed weapons permit may bring a concealed weapon to their college campus. Also, the president of the campus can set up rules and regulations for the concealed weapons as long as they don't establish any rules that will ban the weapons.…
We Don’t Need Guns on College Campus, is an editorial written by USA Today (2015), justifying why college campuses should be free of any firearms. In the editorial, the writers use several tactics to encourage the readers to thinking more about concealed weapons on campus and how it could be bad. The writers bring up past legislations that have failed to pass to show that there are other people, who are in power, who do not support concealed weapon carry, they also give examples of shootings that have recently taken place. The writers want to bring to attention to the readers about the negatives that come with having guns, and how it is not a good idea to have guns on college campuses According to a 2014 overview by the National Conference of State Legislatures, twenty states have banned…
A carrying concealed gun in the public is permitted in all 50 states as of 2013.The proponents of carrying concealed gun say that the criminal are less likely attack to someone they believe to be armed (Concealed Gun, 2016).However,there are 8 states that allow concealed handgun on campus. Likewise, the proponents of carrying gun law argue that having armed gun make students and the school environment safer (Tracy, 2015). “ Does Concealed Carry Make Sense In School and On Campus”,this article written by Desiree J. Hanford, She is Medill’s Journalism Residency coordinator and also a lecturer, she was an adjunct instructor at Medill for three years while still reporting. She was an equities reporter for Dow Jones & Co for more than 10 years (Hanford,…
State legislators are considering revoking gun-free school zones into a place where individuals in a classroom are allowed by permit to carry concealed firearms for safety purposes. This causes a fierce and rigorous debate amongst representatives from each side presenting their opinions to the government. In response to the gun debate, Obama held a speech due to the most recent gun shooting in Oregon on stricter gun control laws; discussing how laws should and will be changed due to all these atrocious incidents. Americans are devastated every time articles get published with heading such as, “Campus Shootings”, “15 Student Lives Lost due to School Shootings”, and so forth. Open fire on campus could prevent assaults for potential victims, although it can spur a different problem such as constant tension, suspicion and…
Gun Violence on campus has been a recurring issue in the past several years with several instances of the mass shooting like the ones in Arizona state university and on Virginia tech. “.Timothy Wheeler wrote a piece called “There 's a reason they choose schools” which was published On May 1,2007,in the issue of National Review. In this article,Wheeler talks about how there may need to be a need to allow guns on campus so we can better protect ourselves against shooters. Another piece used is the poster “Gone but not forgotten”published by Amy Dion at Northern Illinois university in the UCDA campus violence poster project.…
Licensed gun owners are 5.7 times less likely to be arrested for a violent offense than the general public. A hot topic of debate among college students today is wether or not they should be allowed to carry a concealed weapon on campus. Although some believe that having guns on campus would create an atmosphere of fear and paranoia amongst the students, the threat of a wild west type shootout are minimal at worst. Students and faculty with a conceal and carry license should be allowed to carry a weapon on campus because license holding gun owners are less likely to commit a serious crime involving a weapon, having a weapon and the training required to get a license could help a women defend herself from a much bigger and stronger attacker, and armed citizens can stand as a…
Should the schools in our city (or town) allow district employees to carry a concealed firearm on school grounds? History of Gun Laws and Legislation. In 1785, the First Congress of the United States proposed 12 amendments to be added to the Constitution (Bill of Rights). This being called the Bill of Rights was a request from the states people that would prevent the government from abusing its power (Bill of Rights).…
Did you know there have been 175 school shootings since the year 2013? There has been an average of 1 per week! ("175 School Shootings In America Since 2013”). The question I want to ask you is how many of these school shootings could have been stopped if there were armed guards present? Even though an untrained guard can cause accidents, armed guards will make schools safer because armed guards can work with teachers to prevent and avoid these dangerous situations or if a dangerous situation was to happen the teacher can contact the guard in order to take control of the situation and many school shootings have been stopped due to the fact that armed guards were present at the time, also armed guards can help observe school children keenly…
”Arming teachers is a knee-jerk reaction fueled by the absurd fantasy that armed civilians can stop a mass murder. They can’t. But they very well might get themselves killed or put bystanders in dangers. In a classroom, that means someone’s child!” (Anderson 504).…