Reevaluate the Campus Carry Law? If allowing students to bring handguns to their campus‚ will that promise to maintain and facilitate the safe environment that a college campus already has? If campuses were to experiment this‚ then they would see that it could result in a negative effect. Due to the increase of campus shootings and violence on campus‚ the state has signed the campus carry bill and will take effect on August 1‚ 2016. Texas should definitely reevaluate this law because it could cause
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questions to different students and recording the data in the table‚ it came to the conclusion that most students did not approve of the new Texas campus carry law that will be taking place by August 1st. From March 10 to March 11‚ I asked sixteen students the same question regarding the campus carry law and only five students approved the law being used in campus which is 31.3%. According to the Dictionary‚ “Margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey’s
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Manies‚ a carry concealed weapon permit holder‚ walked into the office and pointed a .38-caliber pistol at the victim and executed her while she sat in her chair‚ talking on the phone. This violent act and other very serious crimes like it are committed on a regular basis. There are many small things that the government could do to limit the number of handgun related deaths‚ but the most obvious thing is to enact stricter handgun control laws and to make it more difficult to get a carry concealed weapon
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I Deserve to Carry a Gun The question is: to carry a gun or not to carry a gun? That is a huge question in our world today. I think people should be able to decide for themselves. Guns protect people and make people feel more comfortable in dangerous situations. Even long ago‚ women and men both would carry a gun on them—they were hidden somewhere or on display in a holster. Any competent person should be able to carry a gun on them for their own protection. In the essay titled‚ “A Peaceful
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Kelsie Mays English 1105-24 Professor Baumgardner 7 April 2014 The Right to Conceal and Carry A young woman driving home from a friend’s house on a winter evening hits a large pot hole in the road. After she pulls over to the side of the road‚ she exits her vehicle and discovers that she has a flat tire. She now realizes she is stranded in an unfamiliar neighborhood at night. After calling for help she sits in her vehicle and waits for the tow truck to arrive. Suddenly‚ a strange man pounds
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Concealed weapons carry The Second Amendment of the United States constitution states: "A well-regulated militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed" (Constitution.laws.com). The purpose of the second amendment was to guarantee and preserve the idea that all men and later‚ women‚ had the right to own and bear arms on American soil. In either self-defense‚ recreation‚ occupational or personal uses‚ firearms have
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English Final Research Essay Carrying a Concealed Handgun Carrying a concealed handgun is widely argued. It is legal in 49 states. Many people think carrying a gun will increase crime and start public shootouts. This is not the case. Carrying a concealed handgun is okay. It is also a right protected by the Constitution. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)‚ the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects “the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation. This
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Charmaine Larkin-Sullivan CJ 370 Case Study # 4 Kirby v. Illinois Facts: On February 21‚ 1968‚ a man named Willie Shard reported to the Chicago police that the previous day two men had robbed him on a Chicago street of a wallet containing‚ among other things‚ traveler’s checks and a Social Security card. On February 22‚ two police officers stopped the petitioner and a companion‚ Ralph Bean‚ on West Madison Street in Chicago. When asked for identification‚ the petitioner produced a wallet
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Have you ever thought about how much a person could save themselves with a concealed weapon? One maybe scared to use a gun but some use guns for their protection. This is because one can not trust everyone due to all the crimes that have been going on. Gun control is a major topic for people with concealed weapons permits. There has been many shooting and major threats that could have been stopped if someone had a concealed weapon. Some people are demanding for schools to have a security guard or
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and Reporting The 2009 United States Census shows that 12.4 percent of the Illinois population was 65 years of age or older. In Illinois‚ an estimated 76‚000 persons over age 60 suffered from elder abuse‚ but the state of Illinois reported receiving only 10‚583 elder abuse reports during 2008. The 2008 Illinois Elder Abuse and Neglect Program Annual Report‚ Demographics reveals that of reported cases of abuse in Illinois that year: almost one in four victims are age 86 or older‚ the most common
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