Carry It On

In E. E. Cummings's poem " I Carry Your Heart With Me", he reveals that when one falls in love, that love is never-ending and will remain in one's heart. In this poem, the poet writes about how love follows the poet everywhere, and the poet carries the love for another wherever he goes. By saying, " I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear;" ( Cummings 2-3) it is understood that the poet carries a significant other's love with him wherever he goes. Obviously this is not physical,…

In Linda Hasselstrom’s essay “A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun,” she uses a casual chain with episodes to organize the causes and effects; a few rhetorical devices, such as anaphora and procatalepsis; a negative connotation vocabulary; a variety of sentence structure with powerful basic sentences; and a conversational style to convey why a peaceful woman carries a gun. Hasselstrom organizes her essay by using a chronological casual chain. She begins with “As a freelance writer I…

(Students for Concealed Carry on Campus 173). One objection to not waiting for a police officer is that students who carry guns are not properly trained. While a background check is required in every state, it is true that Indiana does not have a specific training course required to obtain a concealed carry license. However, many states do require training to obtain a license. Thankfully, several organizations in Indiana do offer the public free…

violent crime (Should). To bear arms is a freedom all should enjoy. To carry openly, to conceal carry, and to purchase a gun are all benefits in which Americans can take pleasure. First, citizens demonstrate the freedom to bear arms by choosing to carry weapons openly in public. Open carry is a hot topic in America. Arkansas Attorney General, Leslie Rutledge, said that the Arkansas Act 746 of 2013 allows individuals to open carry a gun as long as the person is not planning on using the gun for…

In the course of my research the question arises “Should anyone be able to carry guns on college campuses?” (Zalneraitis, 2011-2012). As the years go by violence lingers, especially on school campuses from elementary to universities. And the fascination with guns by children, teenagers and young adults has instigated a considerable amount of schools to place a zero-tolerance policy for anything declared as a weapon, such as guns, knives, screwdrivers, etc. into place. These schools have even…

Concealed Guns: Self-Defense or Self-Harm? Does carrying a weapon really lessen your chances of being attacked? Being able to carry a concealed gun has been a controversial topic for years. Many people are for being able to carry concealed weapons because it is a form of self-defense. If someone carrying a concealed weapon is attacked, they will have something to fight back with. However, people who are against carrying concealed guns say that it is not an effective form of self-defense.…

Fired Up on Campus Three out of every four americans support ¨laws allowing law-abiding citizens to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon¨ (¨Should Adults Have the Right to Carry a Concealed Handgun?¨). With this in mind, we should allow Licensed Concealed Carry of firearms on public universities because it improves the reliability of security guards, protects the staff, and reduces the likelihood of school shootings. In the first place, guards need to be equipped with firearms in order to…

Gun rights for college campuses is something that has many people questioning the laws. The legislative passing a law allowing college employees and students to carry guns is not the greatest idea. All college students shouldn’t be allowed to carry hand guns. The law should remain as keeping concealed licenses then traversing into open-carry license. There’s a great debate on rather teachers should have the right to be armed which in my opinion could lead to a negative impact. The state…

controversial topic in both the Texas and federal government. According to Mekelburg, there are two pending laws in Texas legislature that would “allow Texans to carry a handgun (open or concealed) without obtaining a gun license and completing the required safety training” (Mekelburg). It was just two years ago that open carry and the ability to carry on a campus became legal with the required training. If this law were to pass anyone could obtain a gun without education. The lawmakers…

problems and that they should ban them, but what if more law abiding citizens with concealed carry permits could actually reduce the crime rate. “Today, the number of concealed carry permits is the highest it’s been, at 8 million, and the homicide rate is the lowest it’s been in four decades, less than half of what it was 20 years ago” (Goldberg). “To tell the truth we don’t see much bloodshed from concealed carry permit holders, they are usually law abiding citizens,” Winkler said. “That’s not…