Argumentative Essay On Guns On Campus

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A huge problem with controversy is that people don’t get all the information they actually need to be properly informed. Many people take to social media or biased news cites to get their information. As most people don’t realize, just because it is a news site, doesn’t mean all their information is as accurate as they claim. News companies make money based off of ratings, which means they will put anything out there to get someone’s attention and get them to pay attention. The students that got the law passed for conceal and carry on college campuses in Texas got interviewed by Rolling Stone, in which they said “we’re not at all surprised to see that Wofford [Rolling Stone Interviewer] discarded most of what we said and twisted what little he didn’t discard” (What ‘Rolling Stone’ Got Wrong About the “Fight Over Guns on Campus”, Students for Concealed Carry). …show more content…

This is why you can’t trust all sources out there. These kids were the one’s that went through all this hard work to get it passed and most people still don’t even understand what all it means, and all the rules behind the laws that students must abide to even be able to carry guns on campus. Such as, the open carry of handguns is not allowed on the campus, there are several areas of campus in which the concealed carry of handguns is prohibited, including some portions of residence halls, license holders must carry their handguns on or about their person at all times while on campus, and all license holders must think through the activities of their day, stated by the Associate Vice President, Bob Harkins, of Campus Security & Safety at the University of Texas at Austin (Campus Carry to Begin Monday, Aug.

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