The Right to Bear Arms with Concealed Carry Humans naturally assume the right to be able to protect and defend their own person. This is a country built upon protecting the well-being of its people‚ and‚ more so protecting its people’s freedom‚ specifically the freedom to keep and bear arms. We are free to defend ourselves against others acting outside their lawful boundaries. Crime is obviously a problem in society‚ and we have laws in place to discourage behaviors that people agree on as wrong
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As a college student‚ a new law will soon take effect that will affect me personally: campus carry. The University of Texas stated that in the state of Texas‚ “S.B. 11‚ also known as the ‘campus carry’ law... provides that license holders may carry a concealed handgun throughout university campuses‚ starting Aug. 1‚ 2016” (“Campus Carry”). Individuals that support campus carry believe that an armed student or faculty member could stop a potential shooting. Writers Adam Nagourney and Julie Turkewitz
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According to a study conducted by John Hopkins University (JHU)‚ campus carry laws are unlikely to bring an end to‚ or prevent an active shooter situation. In fact‚ the study revealed that students who are licensed to carry guns are more than likely to cause more deaths and injuries in an active shooter situation. According to the JHU study‚ an unarmed student will be more likely to disarm an
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Nearly eleven million Americans have their concealed or unconcealed carry permits within the United States. I believe that unconcealed (open) carrying of weapons or concealed carry of a firearm is a law that should not be infringed. I believe this to be true because the right to carry a firearm concealed or not is guaranteed by the 2nd amendment. Many advantages come with openly carrying or concealing a firearm on your person when out in public. For example carrying a firearm can be a deterrent for
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How to acquire Concealed carry license? Description: If you want to acquire Concealed carry license then nothing can be best way-out other than following few steps easily. Those steps are to be organized in a proper manner for acquiring this license. Concealed carry license is nothing but the permit for using concealed firearms. This license can be acquired only if all the licensing requirements are being fulfilled. These requirements have been fixed up by the law-enforcing or legal department of
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Campus Carry According to the Texas Department of Public Safety on August 1st of 2016‚ the right for an authorized licensed handgun holder to carry a concealed handgun on certain public‚ private‚ and/or independent university campuses was granted. Even though campus carry is permitted‚ open carry is still banned. Depending on the campus certain buildings may be prohibited to campus carry. When there is a building on the campus that does not permit the carrying of handguns‚ there will be a sign
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Guns on a school campus is an issue with two clear sides‚ those who support allowing concealed weapons and those who rally for gun free zones. David Burnett supports the idea of allowing students to carry concealed weapons. Burnett’s central argument is that gun free zones leave students defenseless. Darby Dickerson disagrees‚ saying students do not understand the responsibilities of owning a weapon and should therefore‚ not be allowed to carry them on campus. Both Burnett and Dickerson have valid
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does not have a criminal record should be able to carry a concealed weapon because it is a constitutional right. Being able to carry a concealed weapon has been a debated topic for years. Thousands of people are being able to carry a weapon because it is form of self-defense. The government should not be allowed to discontinue responsible adults from having the power to defend themselves. Why would it not be right for me or for others to carry a weapon‚ but a police officer whom society holds to
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Guns On Campus Ever since school shootings on campuses many people have been skeptical about guns in the wrong hands of people. David Burnett writer of "Students Should Have the Right to Carry Guns on College Campuses."‚ agrees with the fact that students should be allowed to have guns on campus‚ for the use of self defense‚ for decreasing the crimes committed‚ and because colleges aren’t as safe as you think. Although Darby Dickerson writer of "Students Should Not Be Allowed to Carry Guns on
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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 results
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