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Pros And Cons Of Senate Bill 11

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Get Rid of Senate Bill 11 For years, we thought of school’s as a place to leave our kids to learn free from fear and violence. However, Senate Bill 11, has passed allowing individuals with concealed hand licenses to carry their guns on Texas college campuses. Which has distilled fear upon some faculty, students, and staff. There are some people who would disagree because they believe Senate Bill 11 would make our campuses safer, but we should get rid of Senate Bill 11. It will only lead us to catastrophe. Senate Bill 11 is going to cause an increase in violence on college campuses, disrupt students learning environments, and make it harder to protect individuals on campus. Senate Bill 11 is fighting violence with violence and it is going to cause an escalation in violent crimes on campuses. The answer to bullets flying should not be more bullets flying. Senate Bill 11 was passed to protect students, …show more content…

As a Del Mar College student I know most of us Vikings take pride in our school and love to learn, but there are times we have argumentative debates in class. However, since Senate Bill 11 will be taking effect at Del Mar College in August. I now fear that I will not be able to voice my opinions or correct a student when their wrong because I will be afraid they might lash out on me. Teachers have also stated,” they fear if a student is given a bad grade their might be retaliation against them” and now that students can carry concealed guns’ things can turn violent quickly. We should be able to go to school and feel safe. We should not have to worry about our classrooms turning into crime scenes. Our fears of what might happen to us are going to hinder us students from learning and affect us greatly. For instance, how can students focus on school when everyone is going to be more focus on who has a

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Also, guns could accidentally go off if it is in the student backpack and it dropped and could hurt someone. According to Admiral William H. McRaven a Texas Chancellor, “We survivors do not think that it is a good idea to have guns on campus. There is no evidence that a bill like SB 11 would do anything to stop a mass shooting, but SB 11 would make the average day on campus more dangerous in an environment where students are dealing with failing grades, alcohol abuse, relationship problems” (McRaven). People should think about the future on how many people lives are taken because of guns on campus and should decrease the

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The colleges who have passed this have had less shootings and less problems at the school. The kids at the schools feel safer and that's a good thing to feel safe. The colleges with concealed carry are all around safer colleges. They have dropped crimes in campus by a large

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There is a possibility that a kid who is planning a shooting could just be in a classroom and find out were his/her teacher keeps the weapon, and they wouldn 't even have to sneak a gun in. That’s a downside but what if we made gun safes that only opened with a teachers ID or own password making it almost impossible for a student to open it. Conclusion By arming teachers there are alot more positives than negatives, Yes bad things can happen with a deadly weapon in a classroom but people will continue to do these horrific crimes knowing there is hardly anything that’s going to stop them.

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If I was defending my client against a robbery conviction and the main evidence was the clerk’s eyewitness testimony, I would tell the jury that it is not a completely valid testimony. Being robbed, the clerk was in a state of panic and distress, which could cause him or her to not clearly see who is robbing them. And without camera evidence it is almost impossible to validate if what he/she is true. Eyewitness testimonies shouldn’t be taken as main evidence because who is to say that the testimony is 100% true? The human mind is good at blaming others for mistakes that they want answers to.

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It states that our nation was in one of the worst spasms of violence with guns alone at colleges. This article also states that over the past few years, almost fifteen states have made it a whole lot easier for teachers, students and even administrators to carry concealed weapons on campus. Starting in August of 2016, Texas Lawmakers are going to make carrying a concealed weapon on campus legal. The main point I get from this article is that everyone thinks that the law enforcement should be the only ones to be able to carry concealed weapons on or around college

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By students and staff being armed with a weapon on campus could contain the shooter before campus security or police arrive. State Senator Karen Johnson (Republican,

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Concerning the discussion that is taking place within congress about arming teachers, I’d like to share why it’s not a safe thing to put in our schools. If there was a gun in each class room a lot of the kids in class would be to scared and worried and in their head about whats gonna happen to them if they teacher turns it on them, then focusing on the lesson and the class work. You want to put to guns in secure us from other kids but the teachers might be the problem, there are some teachers that would use their gun and there power to make there students do something they don’t want. You can say that it won’t happen but you don’t wanna risk anything with the kids of the future. Kids are not the only people with mental health issues and what if the adult with the mental health issue just happens to be a teacher at a school and they snap.

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If there is just one person carrying in that classroom the whole situation could be changed for the better. Those who are against concealed carry say the answer to school violence is prevention, not guns on campus. In a perfect system, the two approaches to safety complement each other. Preventive measures, such as teaching students and faculty to watch for the warning signs of mental illness and providing counseling to disturbed students, can work hand in hand with preparative measures, such as developing campus alert systems, providing additional training to campus police, and allowing the same trained, licensed adults who legally carry concealed handguns when not on college campuses to do so on college

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Following the tragic Virginia Tech shooting, controversy arose over the topic of Campus safety. Many different theories have emerged as to how to keep college campuses safer, and how to stop tragedies like this from happening again. This complicated and sensitive topic has many sides that all desire the same goal: to keep people safe. It is preposterous to assume that there is one right answer that will keep this type of violence from ever happening again. However, allowing campus carry would minimize the likelihood of an attack, and potentially stop an active shooter on a college campus.

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Allowing firearms on campus would lead to an escalation in violent crime. For example, an argument among students on campus may escalate quickly

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As previously stated, not everyone in the United States wants to completely disappear the second amendment of the constitution. As we know that Texas is one of the states that is on favor of gun rights, and is less likely to get strict gun control laws. Teachers in elementary schools have the opportunity to share the importance of safety against any attacks to their elementary schools to young students. Parents have also the opportunity to approve for teachers to teach about these topics. If parents continue to ask for these teachings to help their children realize the importance of these safety educational topics, districts of these elementary schools will begging to hear the controversy, so will the government eventually.

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The supporters for concealed carry on college campuses argue that students and teachers should be able to open carry on campus because it will reduce the number of school shootings. The great state of “Texas has made carrying a concealed weapon on college campuses legal as of August 2016” (New York Times).

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For this reason, security professionals believe that arming students shoot back would actually make matters worse in the extremely rare instances where mass shootings occur on campus.” This can create a bigger problem than the one before. Such accidental shootings are not accountable for which leaves families of innocent victims upset and frustrated because justice is never served. According to The Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus “Despite the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois, college campuses are far safer than the communities that surround them. Ninety three percent of the violence against college students occurs off campus, where guns are widely available.

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Students today live their day-to-day lives in constant fear of what seems inevitable. The United States has one of the highests rates of school shootings in the world. Society has become so desensitized to these shootings that they are no longer shocked to hear about another school falling victim to it. Even when students take a stand against gun violence, the only solution offered to them is a proposition to arm teachers. However, bringing more guns into a school will only further deteriorate the situation.

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In order to nurture a healthy learning environment at America’s schools and universities, it is critical that students as well as faculty feel safe on campus. Recent pandemonium of violent crimes on campus has many pro-gun activists suggesting that both the Students and Teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on

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