Guns Should Be Allowed In Schools

Thinking protectively, some schools allow teachers to have guns in the classroom. Though they have good intent, this is an extremely terrible thing to do. There are many risks that come into play when this is allowed. Injury can be caused because of these deadly weapons being present in schools.

Even the tiniest red flag that pops up then they wouldnt be given the option of carry a gun on campus. Nobody would last a

After the Columbine shooting in 1999, schools installed metal detectors and shifted restrooms away from entryways (Chavez, Elassar). It is great that schools are taking action after a terror happens, but metal detectors are not the way to increase school safety. If teachers are able to hold guns, students have to walk through a metal detector everyday, surveillance cameras are watching every move, and police officers are standing at every corner, children are going to think school is a violent place where violence is expected to occur (Warnick, Johnson, Rocha). School will end up to be exactly like prison, creating a harsh environment for students. As source C illustrates, aisle 1 has school supplies like backpacks, notebooks, and markers while aisle 2 has whistles, pepper spray, and tasers.

With reaction being defined by Merriam Webster as “to behave or change in a particular way when something happens, is said, etc.” If the police cannot be there to react to an attack that leaves only the school staff, including teachers. The main controversies involving arming teachers are that: 1.) Children will find the guns and think that they are toys and will thus play with them.

The killers behind the Columbine High School, Thurston High School, and Heath High School shootings have shown the American public just how quickly a school can become a place that no longer feels safe. These threatening children must be sought out before another school becomes nationally recognized for a shooting. In some cases, killers are not shaped by society, but by genetics. This was a major factor in Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s decision to shoot up

Think about how parents feel, they think their children are going to school to learn and be protected. School is about education, we shouldn’t have to worry about our lives here. A walk through metal detector will indicate if a student or person has a weapon on him or her. There should also be armed security guards, like a school resource officer, that would help if anything with a weapon were to happen or anything in general. The guards will be there to protect us.

There are plenty pros to having locker searches now let observe the cons that are not satisfying. It is not private to have people search lockers at school. They think that only school locker searches need to happen to students that have horrifying school records. They might just keep the firearm on them contrary of bothering with putting them in their lockers.

Or if teaching gun safety to them would have the greater impact on lowering the numbers of deaths and injuries due to firearms. But after doing my research I found a good solution to the problem that both sides will most likely agree on. The solution found was that it would be the best to teach children the proper safety precautions and how to use guns, but only teach them in school without them ever actually coming into contact with any. (Moore) Both sides can agree on this solution because kids would be learning about gun safety, but they won’t ever have to touch a gun since it’s in a school environment.

There should be more security guards or policemen at schools because of the fact that someone can carry out a deadly assault. Maybe not using so much technology, but using more security guards that can patrol in and outside the school. With the use of security guards the chances of a shooting happening is slim, not only that, but with armed policemen it also helps stop people from thinking about doing something bad. Using technology doesn’t stop an active shooter because it can’t do anything but catch or alert that there is a shooter, even with students’ help they can throw things and give enough time to catch the shooter. But with security guards and police they are the ones that can stop a shooter.

Would a classroom full of students of all races some carrying guns and some not make you feel as if your university is a safe place for you to learn? Many of our college peers would say that this would make them very uncomfortable, while others would say it makes them feel safer. Since our colleges and universities are supposed to be high learning sanctuaries, they can become treacherous places when students or faculty are carrying around concealed handguns. If an unknown number of students on campus had concealed weapons, their peers would feel a little edgy. One reason being that their peer could get into an altercation with another student and retaliate using the concealed weapon they have on them possibly resulting in someone losing their life.

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I feel that the people ever allowed to bring guns onto school grounds are law enforcement. Many people, such as myself, would not feel safe being in a school environment being around people with guns on their hip. We come to school to learn and to hopefully feel safe, but having tons of people with guns on them would not make me feel safe whatsoever. Yes, if there ever was a school shooting on campus, it could help bring the victim level down if there is someone in the area of the shooter. School shootings are pretty rare even though they have been more frequent recently.

This may be effective at a school with empty classrooms but, at a full school like mine, there are rarely empty rooms. I am also aware that we are taught to get in a corner and get down low so that the gunman can’t see us and if they do start shooting, the bullets are less likely to contact us. So, my experiences have me to believe that the current

It is uncommon to see people carrying guns unless they are officers of the police department, the FBI or Secret Service for instance. With the new law in place, it seems like people will have free will to carry guns to the college without major restrictions. People might be afraid and they will try to avoid being close to those people when college is supposed to be a safe, trusting community. This may create a tense environment in any area within the college and of course within the classrooms. The Professors said they worry about inviting a student into their offices to talk about a failing grade if they think that the student is armed.

So, honestly, the public needs to research and look into the positive and negative interests of carrying handguns onto public school campuses before they jump to indecisive conclusions. It is still my opinion that if people know that it is a gun free environment then it makes it more susceptible to the people that want to create havoc and do harm to others. With teachers and school administration being licensed carriers; then, it makes the schools a safer place because the people trying to do harm will think twice about it since there is the possibility that someone could be shooting back at them. So, evildoers, you might want to be a little more careful when picking out a school to take advantage of or do harm to because when you are looking down your barrel at a schoolmate or teacher there might just be a teacher or administrator looking down their barrel at