Schools Should Aloww Concealed Carry
Should concealed carry be allowed in schools
Schools should allow legally licensed concealed carry permit holders to continue carrying on and in schools. Concealed carry minimizes or eliminates school shootings, and it can decreases crime rates. People carry everywhere else so why not on campus? In the wake of the Newtown shooting and other mass shootings throughout the United States, many people feel opposed to guns, which is the entirely wrong reaction. Because if guns had been outlawed before the shootings the shooters still would have found a way of getting guns or potentially more destructive firearms. This would have ended in an average of a ten minute uninterrupted slaughter of people. “Due to the Gun Free School Zone Act an increase in school shootings has occurred, such as the Columbine High School massacre that occurred in Colorado in 1999, which acts as evidence that the law is ineffective.” Due to another school shooting, the 2007 Virginia Tech University massacre in which more than thirty people were killed, the group, “Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) was formed. The group lobbies colleges to allow licensed individuals to bring concealed firearms onto campus grounds as a way to increase safety for all students.”
People seem to think that the relatively small number of justified shooting deaths each year somehow proves that concealed carry is ineffective. Like many opponents of concealed carry, they fail to realize that the key factor is not the number of bad guys killed but, rather, the number of good guys saved. According to a 1991 FBI study, less than one out of a thousand lawful defensive uses of a firearm results in the death of the attacker. By that estimate, firearms are used almost five times more frequently to save lives than to take lives in the U.S. (Find source)
So if teachers, staff members, and other legal concealed carry permit holders where permitted to carry in schools the result would have been an average of a
Schools should allow legally licensed concealed carry permit holders to continue carrying on and in schools. Concealed carry minimizes or eliminates school shootings, and it can decreases crime rates. People carry everywhere else so why not on campus? In the wake of the Newtown shooting and other mass shootings throughout the United States, many people feel opposed to guns, which is the entirely wrong reaction. Because if guns had been outlawed before the shootings the shooters still would have found a way of getting guns or potentially more destructive firearms. This would have ended in an average of a ten minute uninterrupted slaughter of people. “Due to the Gun Free School Zone Act an increase in school shootings has occurred, such as the Columbine High School massacre that occurred in Colorado in 1999, which acts as evidence that the law is ineffective.” Due to another school shooting, the 2007 Virginia Tech University massacre in which more than thirty people were killed, the group, “Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) was formed. The group lobbies colleges to allow licensed individuals to bring concealed firearms onto campus grounds as a way to increase safety for all students.”
People seem to think that the relatively small number of justified shooting deaths each year somehow proves that concealed carry is ineffective. Like many opponents of concealed carry, they fail to realize that the key factor is not the number of bad guys killed but, rather, the number of good guys saved. According to a 1991 FBI study, less than one out of a thousand lawful defensive uses of a firearm results in the death of the attacker. By that estimate, firearms are used almost five times more frequently to save lives than to take lives in the U.S. (Find source)
So if teachers, staff members, and other legal concealed carry permit holders where permitted to carry in schools the result would have been an average of a