Guns on Campus Essay

Recently, there has been a debate over allowing teachers to carry guns in schools. This debate arose when a nineteen-year-old went to a school in Florida with an assault rifle and killed seventeen people. Many people question how he was able to obtain that sort of weapon. This arose the debate of whether teachers should be allowed to bring their own gun for their and the student's safety. Guns are very dangerous and can cause serious harm to an individual, therefore, teachers should not be…

Arming Teachers Puts Students at Risk “I want less guns in schools, not more” (April Griffin, School Board Chairman of Hillsborough Schools, found in the article “EDUCATORS: WE DON’T WANT TO BE ARMED; Administrators and teachers strongly oppose the idea that they need guns in class” in the Tampa Bay Times written by Times staff writer Ben Montgomery). Because of the dramatic increase in school shootings since the Columbine High School attacks, America is faced with the dilemma of whether or…

world “Guns don 't kill people, people kill people”. Not a single soul on the earth, hasn’t heard about or read this quote from the NRA. Some people believe it, and some would think that it settles this old debate about gun control. Others would say it 's preposterous, a terrible analysis of how to solve such a problem; however, I found it difficult to find a solid consensus regarding what exactly is wrong with it. First and foremost I am a person who greatly appreciates both sides of the gun…

With children often being affected by gun related injuries, gun related protocols and insurance are often enforced to ensure the safety of children in the presence of a gun. As stated by Matthew James Thompson, “Since 1979, the number of children and teens killed by guns in the United States has stayed consistently above 3,000 deaths annually ” ( Thompson 1). Events like the 1989 shooting in Stockton, California where five children were killed on an elementary school playground, or the 1999…

Pro Gun Control Many people nationwide feel that the more guns that are in society, the more dangerous our communities will be. In a poll executed in 2005, the results stated that fifty percent of the American public said they thought that armed judges would make courtrooms more dangerous. Likewise, the poll revealed that seventy-three percent of Americans think that schools will be more dangerous if officers on campus were armed (Alters, 2011). A large part of the public views guns as…

teachers allowed to carry guns in our schools, specifically grades kindergarten through eighth. As an eighth grader, I do not believe that teachers should be allowed to have a gun in school and also do not feel comfortable going to school in an environment that contains guns. Our country is at a point of crisis where we are trying to solve gun safety in schools, many people believe that arming teachers is the solution and some districts have already armed teachers. But is bringing guns into…

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides” -thomas jefferson is saying by taking away gun laws we are hurting law abiding citizens and helping criminals. Conceal and carry is a law where people conceal handguns on themselves to defend themselves if attacked. Open carry is the practice of openly carrying a firearm on one's person in public. Society should be able to change or make norms to improve society. People should have the rights of…

Arming Teachers Should a teacher gave guns in classrooms? Why or why not? I say no, because students can get the gun from the teacher, by one distracted the teacher then the other one would get the gun while the teacher is distracted. Teacher would want to teach students in class instead of wasting time just for gun practice when the teachers going to go through hard difficulty of lessons and practicing guns. The teacher shouldn’t have guns in school because you don’t know if they can do…

ramifications in how gun holders carry themselves in public environments. HB 60 expands upon Second…

one a week, according to data compiled by Mass Shooting Tracker.” According to Everytown a site for Gun Safety “there have been at least 94 gun-related deaths and more than 156 people injured”. This needs to stop and there is a solution. The solution would be to arm our teachers with guns and give them training on what to do in a shooter scenario.The teachers will not just be handed a gun and told “shoot the bad guy” the teacher will have to attend trainings consistently and will be…