Guns on Campus Essay

Campus Martius: Where are we going? Campus Martius is an important gathering place in the heart of Detroit. More importantly, it is the signature place for Detroit’s major events. Detroit Free Press writer Zlati Meyer states that Campus Martius helps revitalize the city of Detroit by getting people outside and enjoying their city and generating new business, restaurants and cafes (Meyer). With the park undergoing constant renovations such as adding new street side restaurants and creating new…

The plague of gun violence as taken over the country. School shooting occur from all corners of America. In the Schoolyard chapter of Rick Bragg’s book, described the school shootings at Westside Middle School orchestrated by two juvenile. On March 24, 1998, two boys ambushed students and teachers outside Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Andrew Golden, 11 years old, and Mitchell Johnson, who was 13 years old, was responsible for the tragedy. The two boys, dressed head to toe in…

“Shootings,” he shows concerned with the growth of gun violence in the United Sates, and the lack of action from the government in making strong and restrictive gun control laws to prevent further deaths and massacres by guns. Gopnik was even more concerned on how easy it is for people with a history of mental illness acquiring weapons that were only made to kill people. By comparing United States with others countries which have restrictive and tightens gun control laws, Gopnik shows how deaths…

more specifically gun violence, is a large point of discussion in the current presidential race. Citizens and politicians alike have very different viewpoints on how this issue should be dealt with, and this disagreement is causing a hindrance to actually solving the problem at hand. The number of mass shooting in the United States is increasing at an alarming rate. There have been more mass shootings since 2005 than the past 23 years before that. This is for multiple reasons. Guns are readily…

in 2004, an average of about 81 people a day, were killed by guns in the United States. In today’s society, many people fear about getting robbed at gun point, finding themselves in a mass shooting or maybe even a getting hurt from a stray bullet. Many citizens think carrying a gun would help them be less of a target or by having one in their home they can protect their family from an intruder. Everyone has their own point of view on gun ownership whether it’s for a good reason or not. For…

as machine guns, and short- barreled rifles. The Attorney General makes decisions in regards of when weapons can be sold by who, and who the weapons can be owned by when transferring weapons.(Law Center, 2013) That makes one persons beliefs ruling over everyone in regards to weapons, this needs to be changed to a committee that would have more opinions and ideas on topics. In New York in regards…

the builder, the human with an ability to learn and change. Gun control is still a very controversial debate and there are a lot of unfortunate events associated with gun violence. However, the right solution is not to create more laws to try and prevent them from happening, because the more criminals gets pushed, the harder they will push back. American government should not have gun control laws because it is unconstitutional, unfair…

politicians continue to claim. If people take an extensive look at this dilemma many will draw the conclusion that out of thousands of cases yearly, a high percentage of gun violence is deeply rooted back to mishandling by companies that produce these weapons,…

university of texas went to the top of the tower at his campus with a head full of “depression and repressed violence” and an armful of weapons. 15 people died that day at the other side of whitman's gun. Seeing how some can misuse their weapons, even with extensive training, not everyone can be trusted to just carry them around especially reckless young adults. Although it is against the second amendment saying that you have the right to bear arms, Guns should not be permitted on college…

The Dangers of Guns Do you ever think about how quickly your life can be taken by a simple shot from a handgun? Do you know many innocent lives are taken daily by guns? Death by a gun is a huge ordeal in America. Thus far in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, 10,843 deaths have occurred all over the Unites States due to gun violence. The number of children killed, ages 0-11, due to a handgun has reached 583 deaths. Today, many people have access to guns. Some who own a gun use it…