Essay On Gun Violence On Campus

Would Concealed Carry Deter Violence on Campus? How many people do you see every day that carry a gun on them? I am betting that you don’t see anyone besides police officers. If people get into a car crash and the driver was drunk, do we blame the car? No we blame the driver so what’s the different with guns. Gun are not the problem that we are having, it’s the people that give guns a reputation. People carry guns not to cause or even seek to find trouble, but just that slim chance that your life might be threatened or that you will have to put your life on the line to protect you and your family. It’s sad that we have to put our life on the line to protect the ones we hold so dear. I believe that concealed weapons should be allowed on campus, so that we can protect ourselves at night, to prevent mass shootings and it is our inalienable right. A college campus is …show more content…
We may find it terrifying to walk around campus at night where we may become the victim of robbery, kidnapping, sexual assault and even murder. As a college student myself this is very nerve-racking. We are going to school to become a working member of society, yet we are even afraid to walk around campus at dark. According to Amiee Lee Ball in her article “Staying Safe on Campus,” some college invest in shuttles just to protect their students from these kinds of criminal acts (1). Students are college’s priorities to protect yet taking their rights to protect themselves or limiting to just using pepper spray could be doing more harm than good. Ball also quoted a student saying that if you don’t find the right pepper spray that it could just blow up in your face, blinding you more than the attacker(1). So with the only defense having between you and an attacker is a small, faulty can of mace is