Why Guns Should Not Be Allowed On Campus Essay

College shootings are becoming more and more common and inevitable. Being able to carry guns on campus is being questioned for safety purposes, but there is much more to it. Guns should not be allowed on campus because even though they’re supposed to keep you safe, they can be dangerous, there is no prior training on how the weapon is to be handled, and furthermore the use of a gun on campus can pressure individuals to submit under peer pressure.

Although many people say that carrying a gun is necessary for their safety, they don’t take into account the severe consequences if something bad does happen. If we don’t take into account what could happen if something goes wrong, the end result will be severe. For example, everybody has mental breakdowns and just has no idea what to do, so they resort to violence and anger. What if one day in class someone breaks and has a gun on them and threatens to shoot everybody if they don’t do as the person says. Reasoning is out of the question because trying to reason with an angry person is like sticking your hand on a hot flame. At this point there is not much to do except hope for the best. Another possible action that can occur is a “shoot-off”. As I said before, when people are angry they resort to violence and anger, resulting in unreasonable actions. What if one day in class these two guys

are constantly bumping heads and one decides to pull out their gun. Ultimately, the other guy is going to pull his out too. They’ll taunt each other saying to shoot the another. Eventually, someone is going to pull the trigger and shoot and the “shoot-off” will begin, causing harm to the other kids in the classroom. One of them could possibly aim the gun in the wrong direction shooting an innocent person, leaving them injured or dead. Although carrying a gun can protect you in certain situations, it can also be used as a weapon harming the lives of other people.
With owning a gun comes many responsibilities. Just like an officer or a hunter, they must each go through training in order to get their license. One common, and possibly fateful, mistake a person can make with owning a gun is not knowing how to use it. College students, being busy already, will not have time to go to training, making it useless to own a gun. Without prior knowledge on how to use a gun, it can cause for false repercussions. Whenever handling a gun, or a weapon of any kind, it is necessary to know how to use it for the safety of other people. For example, in any of the shootings that happened in the last year, many of the people who had a gun were not properly trained or did not know the responsibility that came with owning a gun.
Because guns are constantly being used as peer pressure weapons, they force people to do things for their own safety. The use of a gun could potentially lead to students pressuring their teachers to give them good grades so they can pass the class, and with no questions asked, the teacher does it in order to keep their life. Eventually, students will be finding out what is happening and saying that it is “unfair”, resulting in them pressuring the teacher to do as they are told, just like the first student who had done this. For the safety of the teachers, guns should not be allowed because they are used as peer pressure tools to make people do things in order to save their lives.
Guns should not be allowed on college campuses because even though they are supposed to provide safety, they are used in harmful ways, there is no training on how to use the weapon, and it pressure people to do things for the sake of their lives.

Many people ask: well how can we stop this from being an issue? The answer is: instead of allowing it and having these thoughts in the back of our head, we should try to prevent shootings from happening. There should be metal detectors at the front of every door with some sort of security watching. Although that can be a hassle, it is a much more safer way of handling the gun control

problem.