Persuasive Essay On Guns In Schools

Imagine that you are walking from class to you car, and another student pulls out a gun and started to shoot the people walking to their car. Now imagine that a faculty member is also walking in that group of people. They would have a handgun, and would be trained to take down the shooter. Allowing full time faculty and staff to carry a handgun on college campuses will make students and faculty feel safe while they are trying to learn.
Granting faculty and staff to carry a concealed handgun will make people feel safer when they are on a college campus. A student that is walking to their car in the dark might feel safer if they knew that there was a staff member somewhere near his or her car. As Wheeler states the Pearl High School shooter

was stopped the vice principal got out his gun and pointed it at the shooter (618). This could assure a person that they are safe, and that they do not have to worry about being mugged or kidnapped. This could also allow a student that feels unsafe around a certain person to feel safer, and reassure that student that if something were to happen that him or her someone would be there to stop the shooter.
Not only would it make people feel safer, but also decrease the risk of a violent shooting. Teachers that carry a handgun would be able to defend, and take down a shooter. They would be defending themselves and their students. Jill Hayter, Gary Shelley, and Taylor Stevenson state that no one in Blacksburg, Va could have predicted that there would be a shooting that fateful day. No one can predict when or where a school shooting will occur, and if teachers are allowed to carry a handgun many of these mass shooters could have been stopped before they had gotten too far.
In fact, there is a reason that shooters chose schools.

Most schools have a loose security, and you can walk right into a building and not be questioned. Some schools might have locked doors, but what is to stop a student from walking into that classroom before class, and waiting for a certain amount of people to enter the class before he or she starts shooting. Schools might have a sign saying no guns or knives on campus, but who is going to really going to search the people on come onto the campus. It is also really hard for campus security to search every single person that comes onto the campus, and if they did no one would make it to their class on

time.
Another reason that schools are chosen is because in a classroom you can have twenty to thirty people in just one class, and there are many classes in a school. In my high school we were a small class, but we would still have classes that had at least twenty-five people per class. When you go to school you are forced into classes with people that you cannot stand. This means that at school pretty much everyone that you do not like is in one place. Because of this it make shootings go alot smoother.
Ironically people think that this new law would promote violence on college campuses. They say that anyone can be carrying a gun and could be a school shooter. A teacher could be furious at at his or her students, and just start to shoot at these people without thinking about it first. Shooting with out thinking it through first is another reason people are worried about faculty and staff carrying handguns. Some people like Darby Dickerson say that guns should only be used for school sponsored sports or clubs.
On the other had faculty and staff would be able to stop anyone that is trying to shoot up the school.

Teachers and staff will also be carrying a gun and will be able to retaliate. Faculty and staff will have to notify security and administration that they are carrying a handgun. Jacinthia Jones states “Webb, the security chief at Southwest, said she's planning voluntary safety training sessions for faculty. For instance, in the case of an active shooter situation on campus and police are present, Webb wants armed faculty to know they're not part of the security force.” These teachers would be taught how to shoot an intruder, but not to severely injure

them.
If students were to be allowed to have a concealed carry permit while on campus, they should be put through a screening process so that administration will know that they show signs of violent behaviors or thoughts. After this process, students that have a tendency to have these violent thoughts would not be allowed to carry a handgun on campus, and will meet with a counselor on a regular basis. Elahe Izadi states that the law does not allow teachers or staff to carry a handgun will meeting to discuss disciplinary or tenure issues, or into hospitals. This allows both the student and the teacher to feel safer when talking about work.
Ultimately, allowing faculty and staff to carry a handgun while they are on a college campus will make students feel safer and decrease the risk of a violent shooter. Schools are chosen because there are a lot of people in one space; however, some worry that this law will promote violence in schools. This would be unlikely with people being able to defend themselves against a shooter.