Why We Should Not Have Guns On College Campuses

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 …show more content…
In 2013, nineteen states presented a legislation that would allow guns to be carried on campus grounds, of the nineteen legislations presented only seven states allow guns on campus, according to National conference of state Legislature (p.13). Bills are continuing to be filed on whether states should allow concealed weapons, Florida House of Representatives is one of them. Mayfield defines an assumption as something that is “only recognized as such after circumstances revealed their errors” (p. 142). The writers say that “The bills have failed in the past, and we see no reason that it should be any different this time” (para. 2), assuming the bill will not be passed, they say this with the inference that the reader believes that because the bill has failed in the past, it will continue to fail. The writers assume the readers are concerned that the bill regarding concealed weapons will be passed, and there will be more weapons on the