Gun Control On Campus Essay

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Gun Control

Gun control is a hot topic that is talked about amongst the nation, due to the fact that the nation itself feels indifferent about the issue. One side condones the use of bearing arms while the opposing side believes in the Second Amendment (the second amendment is the right to bear arms). the issue has come down to universities and college students having the right to bear arms on campuses. Through out the years there have been incidents that cost the lives of innocent people, due to the fact that no weapons were allowed on campuses. The author will explain in the following paper why universities should allow students to bear arms on campuses.

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The students are left too vulnerable from defending themselves, not only from mass shootings but female students have been targeted also and are being sexual harassed on campuses. There is very little a Taser or pepper spray can do to an offender with a knife or firearm, whereas a handgun is much more likely to prevent or at the least if it has already begun, cease the attack. While many may believe that while allowing weapons on a college campus would cause these types of events rather than stop them, recent history in college campus violence has gone to show that having a weapon in possession has had much more effect on stopping violent acts than not having them, has. This is why the students who were able to stop the shooter from the law school, which by the numbers of deaths alone goes to show that there were a vast difference, were much less vulnerable than the students who had no chance from the beginning to even being knowledgeable of the situation at hand. Therefore, causing the attacks to be so much easier for Cho to commit; there was a drive and feeling of empowerment for the perpetrator, throughout the planning of the tragedy he knew that no other person would be armed in order to stop

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