Per the article titled Street Law,” student safety is a high-level of urgency for all college and universities.” (Rizzo 1) Numerous educational institutions have reserve telephones or emergency lighting to guarantee students’ protection on college grounds. Once students are tottering in an unusual part of university grounds, they are advised to look for these illuminations alongside their route so they recognize the whereabouts of the closest one in the event they may require it. This essay will contain line of reasoning regarding the pros and cons of student being permitted to carry a concealed weapon on campus, federal law concerning students carrying concealed weapons and the importance of campus of safety. In addition, this composition …show more content…
There are several safety measures that students can implement to ensure they are safe on campus such as always stay alert, being aware of their surroundings to ensure that they do not intruded on, try to hang around in areas with a great deal of people. A crime is less probable to transpire if there are many eyewitnesses. If an area is abandoned, students probably should not be there also. In addition, trying to let someone know their whereabouts and when they are anticipated to come back is an effective way of ensuring the safety of the …show more content…
University of Florida, with a population of 50,000 students, registered no murders, two rapes and eight aggravated attacks.” (Romano 7) In comparison to both colleges, Gainesville has the highest crime rate on record. Statistically, the University of Florida crime rate are low and it appears to be a safe place for students to pursue their
To better understand campus crime, one needs to realize that it involves several contexts—the legal, the social, and the security—and that each context is interrelated with the others (Fisher & Sloan, 2007). The legal context involves judicial and legislative efforts to address campus crime, including institutional liability for on-campus victimizations and Congressional and state legislative efforts to address the problem. The social context involves efforts to develop more accurate measures of the extent and nature of campus crime, identify its major correlates, and understand better its temporal and spatial distribution. Finally, the security context involves not only law enforcement and security efforts to reduce or prevent crime on campus,
Currently, seventeen states ban the conceal and carry of weapons on campus; twenty four states leave the the decisions in the hands of colleges; eight states have special provisions that allow for the carrying of concealed firearms, and only one state has no jurisdiction over this issue. The threat of mass shooting on college campuses should not be overlooked; however, allowing firearms on campuses endangers the very issue gun advocates are trying to
As Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore put it memorably, “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them. [Sexual] assaults... would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in the head.” Critics
After reading the article Dating Violence Among College Students: The Risk and Protective Factors by Catherine Kaukinen the two issues that impacted me was the risk and protective factors such as gender, violence in the family of origin, emotional states and mental health, substance use and abuse, sexual risk taking, nature of intimate relationships, academic engagement and protective factors. The author explores each of these factors by looking at other research to gain an understanding and to bring awareness to dating violence among college students. Additionally, giving ideas to how to prevent or reduce the dating violence among college students. When discussing the different factors of college dating violence the author summarizes them
Concealed carry is a very arguable topic, some people do not like the fact that an eighteen to twenty two year old college student is walking around campus with a loaded handgun. However, some people feel safer when they are carrying their handgun. In the world today, it is hard to know when someone is going to enter a classroom or a campus with a gun. One of the main reasons some laws prohibit the carry of firearms on campus is the thought that students may be disrupted by the thought of another student having a handgun next to them. However if the handgun is concealed the other student may never know.
(Smith, T.N. 2012) The students and staff while on campus who are protecting themselves or another should not be subject to arrest or be punished for a crime. Students need to properly educate the public on the benefits of carrying guns on the campus. By states not allowing guns on campus it is making a target for the shootings. Research says there are more rapes, assaults, and robberies than killings.
It looks scary how vulnerable the survivor can be at the time of assault. However, as long as the matter of violence is associated, the students at college campuses are safer than their non-college mates. Some training and education has been administrated to the students for awareness about the violence and sexual assaults. Even, with increased training and education, most of the college campuses have much longer way to go for decreasing the intensity and number of assaults and the incidents have immense negative impact on the society and people around us.
I feel like the students on campus that had a concealed weapon on them could end up being a victim if there ever was a shooting. For example, if law enforcement saw a man trying to shoot the shooter with his concealed weapon and they shoot the concealed weapon guy not knowing he was not the actual shooter, then that brings up a whole different situation of not knowing who was the shooter and who was trying to help until it is too
Concealed Carry on College Campuses Concealed carry on college campuses is an ongoing controversy in today’s society. There are a lot of questions and valid points from both sides of agreement and disagreement. The following essay will answer the readers’ questions about concealed carry and persuade them to agree with the right side.
Several studies mention that licensed concealed carry weapons aren’t involved in crimes that happen on campus. Certain individuals that do commit crimes on and off campus, generally don’t go through background checks to obtain legal concealed weapons. Gun permit requirements vary by state but most require that applicants are the legal minimum age, complete a safety course and have sound criminal and mental histories (Collins). Allowing students to carry concealed weapons on campus could be considered dangerous; however, having these students’ complete safety courses and go through testing that proves they are mentally capable could prevent it from being dangerous. Certain campuses also don’t allow students to carry conceal in classrooms or in dorms.
As handguns become more accessible to a larger variety of persons within a limited area the rates will rise due to availability (Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, 2013). Overall guns on campuses will result in the cons heavily outweighing the pros. There are more efficient ways to keep students safe than allowing concealed handguns on college campuses. Allowing firearms will escalate sparse occurrences of school shootings. Suicidal deaths among the student population will also increase as more than half of all college students already consider suicide, the presence of a firearm will only increase the risk more (Neuberger, Joan and Spiro, Ellen, 2015).
Why there Should be Gun Control on College Campuses Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Why there Should be gun Control in College Campuses Introduction The issue of gun control is a hot button as it elicits numerous debates and controversies and splits opinions among citizens. While one faction feels strongly that allowing people to own guns will lead to increased security and safety, there are yet many others who strongly believe that allowing people to own guns is detrimental to national security as it leads to increased aggression and violence. The issue of gun control has been a topic of national debate for quite some time now.
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
Dorothy Siegel’s argument in the essay “What Is Behind the Growth of Violence on College Campuses?” is persuasive. Siegel persuades the reader by presenting her points and validating them with facts and statistics. One of the strongest aspects of the argument is that contrary to popular belief, students are committing a majority of the crimes that take place on college campuses; the students “themselves may become the assailants”, not persons from outside of the campus. She further supported this by pointing out that students tend to know their attackers. Another strong aspect of her argument is that campus violence is due to substance abuse.
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