As stated on thinkprogress.org, ABC News reported thirty-one school shootings in the United States since Columbine in 1999, where thirteen innocent people were massacred. Allowing professionally trained security guards to possess the right to carry firearms will drastically reduce the amount of deaths in similar situations, including those of children and teenagers. With the use of their firearms, security guards have a higher probability of being able to offer protection for the students and faculty
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x Do Texas Teachers Feel Concealed Handguns Are a Viable Security Option on Texas ISD Campuses? Timothy D. Clouse Wayland Baptist University EDUC 5366 1 February, 2012 Abstract This study is to explore how Texas Teachers feel about the possibility of other faculty or staff members carrying a concealed firearm on school property as a means to protect the students and staff from an armed attack. A survey was sent to 720 teachers across the 20 Texas school regions. The survey is made
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2015 Fostering a Concealed Campus In 2007 during the Virginia Tech Shooting, a boy’s best-friend’s brother was there, in one of the classrooms that the gunman targeted. He escaped but this information gave him chills. That boy’s name is Jeff. Why is it that issues don’t matter until a horrifying story has a personal connection to its readers that it causes them to fully gasp the situation? There are many alternatives to students carrying weapons on campus. Advocates for guns on campus say that it will
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Language: English Authors: GOLDBERG, JEFFREY Source: Atlantic; Dec2012, Vol. 310 Issue 5, p68-78, 9p, 4 Color Photographs Document Type: Article Publication Information: Atlantic Media Company Subject Terms: GUN control -- United States CONCEALED weapons AURORA shootings, Aurora, Colo., 2012 COLUMBINE High School Massacre, Littleton, Colo., 1999 MAUSER, Tom FIREARMS -- Law & legislation -- United States SCHOOL shootings -- Prevention Geographic Terms: UNITED States Abstract: The
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Place Where Concealed Weapons Should Not Be Permitted A college campus is a place where our children go to earn a degree after leaving high school. You will also find some adults on the campus trying to get ahead in life by furthering their education. Although education is what they seek, they find themselves exposed to a variety of things that are not considered safe. Weapons are one of these exposures. And the law is trying to make concealed weapons legal. Students carrying concealed weapons exposes
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Jasmine Anthony Mrs. Kenney English 112 April 29, 2014 Legalizing Concealed Weapons: Research Synthesis Many times people confuse whether or not allowing gun laws actually reduces the crime rate. As gun rights is a natural born right of citizens, some believe that should be banned, and many others believe that the law should be extended to lawful citizens. Based on my own experiences there have been several instances where I wish a legalized weapon was in arms reach. There was an instance
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Concealed weapons in the workplace have been a legal issue in the business field for quite some time. Besides the dangers it will cause, on the cilivain side there are also liability issues that have arisen concerning employee rights and workplace safety. There are laws passed at both the state and federal levels that allow United States citizens to carry concealed weapons as long as they retain a permit to do so. However, many businesses do not allow their employees to carry weapons on their persons
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allowing student carrying guns on campus. Although Guns shouldn’t be allowed on campus because a campus is considered a safe zone. The state of Texas is considering about having concealed or open carry weapons on campus but many believe it’s a great thing but in reality it’s not due to the fact that It is very rare for a shooting to happen on campus, people with guns around campus can easily escalate, and student will feel unsecure. Over the years it has shown that a campus or university is very safe due
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much as we don’t want to admit it, campus shootings are most likely to happen again and they will. However, there are ways to prevent it rather than having more guns on campus. “On June 1, 2015, Gov. Greg Abbott signed S.B. 11, also known as the "campus carry" law. S.B. 11 provides that license holders may carry a concealed handgun throughout university campuses, starting Aug. 1, 2016” (Campus Carry). People are still debating whether or not allowing campus carry was the right thing to do. In most
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class should be in proximity of another teacher that is carrying a gun. Teachers that carry guns on school property should go through the proper training of shooting a gun properly, this would prevent less deaths in schools and save more lives. The statistics of school shootings are
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