Guns Should be Banned from College Campuses
Should guns be banned from college campuses? A discussion has been going on about this concept for a fairly long while, especially after the deadly bombardment that took place at Virginia Tech University in 2007. In 2008, most of the states permitted civilians to carry guns on them in numerous places, such as college campuses, bars, and even libraries. Allowing individuals to carry guns wherever they please is a serious matter that should be taken into further deliberation, and I believe that the right decision to make in this issue is that guns should not be permissible on education grounds or any public place. In fact in my opinion, guns should not be licensed to any civilian, and it should only
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Campus-carry advocates say that an “armed America is a safer America.” The NRA and its statehouse allies said that a good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun, and thus the more firearms carried around, the safer society becomes. In fact, the contrary is correct. Studies have discovered a correlation between higher statewide constraints on access to guns and lower levels of gun violence in those states. Likewise, women in households where firearms are present are more probable to be shot to death by an intimate spouse than they are to use it in self-defense. Just the presence of a gun makes an act of domestic violence much more likely to end in death. So why would anyone ponder on the idea of carrying concealed firearms to college campuses? Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the decision “should not be taken to cast doubt on … laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings”, Scalia easily distinguishes the difference between security and danger towards the individual, therefore; States should also recognize the unique nature of college campuses and keep the guns