Should Students Carry Guns In Schools

Guns in classrooms? Yes. Guns at sporting events? No. The administrators use these as examples of places that will be marked armed and unarmed zones at the University of Texas. Fifty years ago the first mass shooting at an American college took place. The University of Texas experienced a mass shooting when a student shot 45 people, killing 14 of them, from the clock tower (Gubler). In the New York Times article “Philosophizing With Guns” Simone Gubler talks about the “campus carry” bill that will come into effect on the 50th anniversary for Texas colleges. This bill will allow students to carry guns with them, in certain areas, on campus. Gubler is uncertain about letting students carry guns on campus, and I have some of the same concerns about the situation.
In the article “Philosophizing With Guns” Gubler argues that letting students bring guns onto campus would enhance the likelihood of suicide, domestic violence, assault and accidental discharge. Students that can openly carry guns to school will have more opportunities to cause violence. University administrators take into consideration that it would be better to have students carry guns into classrooms than to have them deposit them in lockers so they do not misfire. Gubler says, “So now, people who cannot be trusted to safely transfer their weapons to lockers will instead carry them into spaces of learning.” (Gubler). She is asking why are we allowing students that can not properly handle a gun carry them into heavily populated