Should Guns Be Allowed On Campus

The recent tragedy at Orlando has added fuel to the debate about guns. Seeing these recent tragic events like in Orlando, one should see what happens when a gun holder is not able to make proper decision. College students are still just growing and gaining meaningful experience in life. In this growing process, students tend to make a lot of poor decisions. For the most cases, these poor decisions are things that students learn from. However, when a student with a gun makes a poor decision, a lot more people will have to suffer. Especially in a stressful college environment, students with gun are more likely to make poor decision that will impact their own life and the overall learning environment of the college. Therefore, college students

When guns are allowed in campus, it adds fear to the life of students and professor. When there is a constant fear, the whole learning environment will change. Allowing guns on campus will “stifle classroom debate- an essential component of learning” (Auyero). In making this statement, Auyero argues that allowing gun on campus take way key component of learning necessary for the students. The freedom of speech and freedom to share one’s opinion is one of the fundamentals rights of a human. By allowing guns on campus, we are indirectly preventing people from freely express their ideas in important learning activity like debate. Students may be sacred to oppose ideas of the person who has a gun because they don’t want them to use the gun on them. This not only creates a very unfriendly learning environment, but prevents the growth of our country as a whole. America is built on diverse ideas from different group of people, and by not comfortably allowing students, who are the future of this country, express their opinions; we are slowing our growth as a nation. In addition to that, professors on campus don’t feel safe either when guns are allowed on campus. College students just like me, want good grades and when they feel like an exam was too hard, they like to complain to the teacher. In a normal classroom, this wouldn’t be a big deal. However,

People, like Amanda Collins, argue that with guns on campus students will be able to stop criminal activates such as rape. Ms. Collins, a survivor of rape, states that if students were allowed to carry a gun, her own incident and “two other rapes would have been prevented and three young lives would have been saved.” I agree that in her situation guns may have helped her; however, even in her situation having a gun is not the best defensive approach. These criminals, who avoid strict law enforcement while committing these crimes, will also find a way to prevent the victim from using their gun while attacking them. This situation will leave the victims just as helpless. So, in these cases, gun are not the best solution, instead individual should take defensive classes and use techniques taught on that class to try and run away from the criminal. In addition to this, Ms. Collins, like other people, doesn’t want to hand over her “safety to a third party” (Collins). But the thing is these “third party” are trained professional who are experienced in using guns. In addition to that, we, as human, live in a society where we depend on third party for a lot of our needs. Let’s look at a simple example: when we have a medical emergency, we don’t try to save our live by