Persuasive Essay On Campus Carry Law

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Campus Carry Law will be established with the purpose of making the campus safer, but in reality it will create an unsafe environment; it will grant students the right to carry a gun on campus for self-protection, but the law should be postponed for the reason that it will cause a hazardous environment in college campus. Campus Carry should be delayed for the reason that it will evoke an unsafe environment.
According to University of Rochester Medical Institution the human brain is not fully developed until the age of 25 years old and also conclude that teenager’s process information with the amygdala, the part of the brain that processes the emotions. However, only adults over the age of 21 and older are allowed to conceal a handgun and for those students that are excluded from the right to legally conceal a handgun will feel enervated and will surpass the law and get a gun from an …show more content…

In a research conducted by Harvard University in 2002, studies showed that students with guns were more likely to have alcohol-related problems, than students without guns (Miller, Hemenway, and Wechsler.) Examples include such as getting into fights involved with drinking alcohol and being arrested for drinking while intoxicated. The usage of alcohol in college has caused 1,825 college students deaths between the ages of 18 and 24 in a year (College Drinking.) Now if weapons are introduced to this environment where students already have a high death rate with alcohol it will increase the numbers of death in a campus. The combination of carrying a gun and drinking alcohol will create a risky and vulnerable environment for the

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