Persuasive Essay On Guns In Schools

Students and Security Should Carry Guns on Campuses After massacres at schools across the country everyone should be able to feel safe in public, even if this means one must carry a gun. Citizens should be able to have the reassurance that they are able to fight back if an attack against them or a school massacre were to happen, especially since one cannot entirely rely on the police force. On average, the police takes 11 minutes to arrive at the scene of the crime. In those 11 minutes it takes for the police to arrive, if one does not have a weapon of self defense, one could get seriously hurt. Also, it is a citizen’s right by the second amendment to carry guns, so concealed weapons do not break the law in any way. From 2013 to 2015 there have been 76 college/university shootings. “When states passed concealed carry laws during the 19 years we studied the number of multiple-victim public shootings declined by 84%.” (Should Adults Have the Right to Carry a Concealed Gun?). This goes to show how after citizens were let to carry concealed guns the public is safer, especially during school shootings. When one has the power to protect oneself when the chance is there, if
Police response is not the fastest form of help in a dangerous situation. With the right to carry a handgun one could protect oneself and possibly others while the police came to the rescue. In the same article it also opens up a different point of view from a sheriff in Arizona who says “police do very little to prevent violent crime. We investigate crime after the fact.” This means that if the criminal is violent, police will not think twice and the situation will end up with the criminal shot. All this without clear knowledge on what the criminals crime