Campus Safety

Campus Safety

  • Submitted By: baybay02
  • Date Submitted: 03/05/2009 8:20 AM
  • Category: English
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Campus safety concerns cannot be address by adding more guns to campuses. Banning guns on college campus is the right choice because the affect of students lives. But what sense does it make to let everyone carry them? It’s exactly like fighting fire with fire, I t doesn’t work. I don’t know how much safer I would feel if everyone was allowed to carry a gun. In fact, I would be more worried. Anybody could be carrying a gun and I would have to watch what I say. If anyone tempers flares up, he/she can easily pull out a gun and end a life, or start a firefight. Imagine how many innocent people would get killed in a cross fire if everyone had a firearms during a confrontation. There are reason why we have trained polices at school. It’s better for us to remain students, and let law officers take care of the violence on campuses. “I am not basing this assertion on any of the arguments surrounding the contentious issue of gun control. This is not about whether it is right or wrong, constitutional or unconstitutional, safe or unsafe to carry a gun. I am sure that the individuals advocating the aforementioned have the very best of motives and am thinking primarily of other people's safety. That being said, it remains very bad solution because of what it does to the fundamental nature of the campus and to the relationships of the members of the campus community.”(Robert K. Glenn) “A university campus is a special place, and it requires a special kind of understanding from all who seek to benefit from their association with it. A university is a community of people who come together for a common purpose, which is to seek truth, knowledge and the best ideas through reason, discourse, even debate. People have to be able to disagree, even disagree passionately, in a rational and civil way in order for the very best ideas to survive.”(Robert K. Glenn) All college campuses involve some degree of excess '' and it’s not surprising that breaches of liquor and drug laws account...

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