Campus Shootings

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In the recent years, the shootings as a result of confrontations that have occurred at U.S colleges and universities have led to heated debates on whether students, administrators and professors should be allowed to carry concealed guns or not. Whereas some analysts have continually defended the opinion that guns should be allowed on college and campuses grounds, majority have nullified any single idea of having concealed weapons on campuses as this is a direct threat to the security of everyone around. For the safety of students, bills meant to allow public colleges and universities to allow hidden and loaded guns on campus should not be passed.
Allowing guns on campuses would simply be altering
As Dickerson Darby states in the article Students Should Not Be Allowed to Carry Guns on College Campuses, “Although most traditional-age college students appear to be physically mature, their brains are still developing,” students should not be allowed to carry guns to campus. Neurologists have backed up this statement by confirming that college students have dubious decision-making abilities. According to recent students on the cognitive abilities a student, the frontal lobes – areas in the brain which are responsible for decision-making – may not fully be developed for most students. The thirty year mark is the ideal age for a well-developed brain and considering the fact that most students are in their twenties, being allowed to carry a gun can pose a direct threat to their peers should a disagreement rise between them and the university administrators rise or
There is no safety guaranteed for school officials and students to have guns at the campus. In fact having concealed guns in colleges and universities have increased shooting incidences throughout the country over the recent years. According to Dickerson Darby there have been many tragedies that have been directly linked with allowing guns in campuses. The most recent are the tragedies at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois, Appalachian School of Law and the University of Huntsville on February 2010, among others that have illustrated the danger that guns on campuses pose to innocent people. In Isla Vista, California, Elliot Rodger, 22, went on rampage on a Friday night shooting and killing three random people. This and many more other cases just show how dangerous guns can be on colleges and campuses.
Supporters of guns on campuses argue that every American citizen, students included, has a right to carry a concealed firearm which is part of the Second Amendment rights Dahl et al., 5). They claim that colleges and campuses are just part of the many places that people can be allowed to walk around with their guns and that there is nothing strange about it. But if gun proponents are dedicated towards maximizing security like any other citizen, decisions that make guns proliferate should be