Persuasive Essay On School Shootings

If you are faced with a mugger, what would you do? Would pull a gun on them, and run the risk of being shot. Citizens who have a concealed handgun are more likely to be shot than someone who doesn't. It has been reported that people with a felony usually carry firearms. On top of that, a survey showed that people who don't conceal and carry feel less safe. Adults should not be able to carry a concealed handgun.Handguns are what bring shootings to the school campus, and they have dangers in owning one. Guns and what has happened to kids, adults, and mass shootings, giving guns a very negative persona.

College campuses have had cases of shootings and a hostage situation and part of it is due to concealed and carry. Colleges have the choice to conceal and carry. due to conceal and carry there have been massive school shootings and kids and peers have been shot. Also, 23 schools allow faculty to conceal and carry. If faculty can conceal and carry what stops people who claim they are a visitor or volunteer and shooting up the school. On top

of the fact that Virginia Tech was shot up in 2007 seven, it is known as one of the worst school shootings in our history(Weeden,2017). If this happens again what will the US do? Will they finally end the conceal and carry laws? If colleges allowed concealed carry there would be an increase in school shootings.
There are many dangers in owning a gun.

There is a link between owning a gun and deaths associated with firearms. If guns and homicides are related to each other why do people keep buying them? Homicides are a huge thing in this country, and if we cleanse Homicide rates increase with every 1% of guns owned there is a 1.1% rise in homicides related to firearms and an overall .7 increase in homicides total(Defilippis and Hughes, 2015). This statistic shows that for every 1 citizen that buys a gun is 1 person killed increasing .7% in all homicide rates. It's not just a homicide increase there is also an increase in overall suicidality levels measure, for example, mental sickness, alcoholism, poorness, etc. Suicide rates are increased because people who owned guns are more likely to kill themselves because guns are more lethal. Homicide and suicide rates are very high and it's due to concealed and carry and owning a

gun.
Adults should not be able to carry a concealed handgun.
The states who passed “shall-issue” laws in between the late 70’s to 2010 have had a more than 2% inclined murder rate, with a minimum 9% increase in sexual assault, aggravated assault, burglary, car theft, robbery, and larceny, as specified by a “Aug. 2012 paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.” A ‘95 fellow-critiqued study of 5 cities, published in “Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology”, came to the conclusion that murder with the use of a gun rates increased "on average by 4.5 per 100,000 persons" after the enactment of “ shall-issue” laws were organizations with inclined numbers on assault between 1977-2006. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck says, “ I have seen far too much gun violence in my lifetime to think that more guns are a solution... a gun is more likely to be used against you than you use a gun in self-defense.”
Handguns are what bring shootings to a school campus, and dangers in owning one. Guns have a negative effect on people. Guns on campus in homes and the negative effect they can have, homicide, suicide school shootings etc. can be stopped, yet the U.S. use the second amendment to there advantage, but we can change that. All it takes are movements, boycotts etc. and we will change everything. Just remember in a split second you could kill a person.