Mass Shootings in Schools

Although there are many, loving and caring students all around the world.Many students in school could have firearms and drugs on school grounds at anytime around during school hours and after. There are also bad things about searching there lockers you could maybe go through their privacy and personal belongings.

With backpacks in tow and pencils in hand, college students crisscross campus with stress of acing the test, hardly thinking about their safety. This was the case on a clear Tuesday at the University of Texas on September 28th, 2010. Students fled from a mask gunman carrying an AK-47 and shooting randomly around campus. Nineteen-year-old Colton Tooley, wearing a black mask, eventually killed himself in the library. Remarkably, no one else was injured or killed. (MSNBC) This was not the case in 1966 when 16 people where killed with 32 injured by a gunman in the UT clock tower. The debate still wages on to allow concealed guns to be carried on college campus in Texas despite a recent bill that failed to pass. The US Constitutional Second

It cannot be disputed that schools often have to place the privacy of one student, below the overall need to secure the safety of a student body as a whole. If students know that their belongings can be searched, it will discourage them from committing illegal activities at school.

Reports indicate violence on a college campus are commonly caused by a student against students (Dickerson). Most cases of college violence occurred in the earlier 1990s and 2000s but severely of the incidents out of 272 cases the perpetrators killed 281 people incapacitated 247 or more (Dickerson). With the effective passing of Concealed carry laws, they have caused a possible increase of violence on college campuses (Dickerson). Even though guns on campus seem like a good idea for young adults for safety. Their brains are still developing as they still being perceived as physical mature (Dickerson). Many college students are easily persuaded and pressure to enact in risky actives. They get indulged more with alcohol and drugs staying on campus and it shows one risk students are faced with (Dickson). Dickson believes there are alternative ways to keep college students and faculties safe without the handling of guns on

The idea of Concealed Carry arms at universities is a controversial topic for both students and faculty on whether guns should be allowed or banned on campuses throughout the United States. The idea of Concealed Carry Arms is a controversial topic because it represents both protection and fear as no one knows who has a weapon, whether they have it legally or even if they know how to use it properly and safely. Also, nobody knows of someone else’s intentions with Concealed Carry Arms as they could use that gun for protection or murder. The idea of allowing Concealed Carry Arms on campus is a controversial topic that could affect universities and campuses in the United States.

The college campus in United State should prohibit carrying concealed guns for students’ safety. Because people rarely arm themselves for deter criminals, the responsibility should be left to official police rather than normal citizen. In addition, carrying concealed gun not only cause fear among non carrying population, but also cause higher risk of being killed or injury since criminals can legally holding concealed guns. So until the government published a more deliberate and suitable policy, the government should rethink about the consequence of permitting concealed guns, and have reaction towards the potential threat. For now, we’d better prohibit concealed guns on campus for students’ self security

If locker searches were implemented, students would not be able to hide weapons in their lockers that could be used to endanger another student or teacher’s life. According to the National Education Association (NEA), 160,000 students were estimated that they skip classes because they are afraid of being in physical danger. NEA also calculated 6,500 teachers that are threatened by their students. The number of students that bring weapons to school was calculated to be around 100,000. I believe that administration needs to crack down on this weather this is for assault other students or for defense.

As everyone knows, especially those who themselves have attended in a college environment, many students are often young adults who go through a number of new experiences: for some, paying their own bills for the first time, building new relationships, and indulging themselves in the new opportunities that are now open to them, all of which comes with a severe amount of stress; it is also common knowledge that stress hinders an individual's thought process and judgment. With this, it is important to understand that in times of tension, students are often pushed to do things they unfortunately regret. There have been times where, even before the law was passed, that a handgun was found on campus, although a majority of these findings were in order for individuals to protect themselves and ended without worry, others did not end in peaceful negotiations and some even managed to ascend into all-out shootings. Although many individuals turn and ask, “what if I want to defend myself” or “if any other bystander had access to a gun, they could have stopped the shooter before the scene escalated”, many of these people don’t realize that there are many options other than a gun to protect and disarm a perpetrator. This can be done in a number of ways including using a taser, defense spray, or even self-defense techniques.

“About 17 percent of American high school students are drinking, smoking or using drugs during the school day” (Carl). That percent could grow if teacher can not check a student's locker at anytime. Those student can spread the drug or alcohol to other student’s. Student’s possessions may be searched at anytime for safety reasons and because of ownership and behavior of student’s. Teachers should be able to search a student's locker or possessions at anytime for the safety of other student’s.

S. Department of Health and Human Services, roughly about 11 % of 8th graders have confessed that they have brought a weapon into their school at least once during the previous month. Students have brought in weapons, such as a gun, knife, or wooden or metal club” (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2004). One would think that principles out there would take some sort of action and do something to reduce the issue of students bringing in harmful weapons either for their own protection, because of having fear or being threaten by someone else, or also setting out a personal and specific target to use on someone; after seeing those responses from the study, but actually a year later from the same school “Percentages have increased significantly from the previous year for both 8th and 12th graders, and 3-4% of the students at each grade reported that they habitually carried a weapon to school ten or more days in the previous month” (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services,

Knowing that someone sitting next to you on campus may have a gun is a terrifying thought for many people. Not only would they feel uncomfortable but they may not be able to study or do homework. “Allowing guns on campus would inject deadly weapons into an atmosphere already swirling with academic pressure, romantic rivalries, youthful impetuousness, alcohol and drugs” one of the reasons why having a gun on campus may be terrifying is because all of the pressure, us

I answer that, the growing concerns about school safety has been around since the 1990s. The United States Congress and many state legislatures passed laws that allowed school districts to implement harsh disciplinary policies.For example expulsion and out-of-school suspensions were implemented in order to help reduce incidents of students bringing guns and other weapons to school(mental health).The zero tolerance policy is “intended to deter misbehavior by maintaining clearly defined and uniformly applied rules”(School Safety, 2016). But the school districts and schools have expanded the zero tolerance policies to include various non-violent acts. The policies often use vague words like, “threats,” “violence,” “weapons,” and “drugs”. Allowing the administration to subjectively decide if the act of the student is deemed threatening or not is not a way to effectively decrease the incidents of students bringing weapons to school. Jacob Kang-Brown, a research associate at the Center on Sentencing and Corrections at the Vera

Imagine it being the first day of your college life, and you’re pumped for your freshman orientation. You’re walking with the crowd of strangers just looking for an empty seat in the auditorium. Everything is ready, the projector with the presentation is in front of you, the crowd starts to quiet down as the presenter steps into the stage. As she’s about to introduce herself, you hear a loud gun shot to your right. Chaos erupts and everyone runs for their life. You try to hide behind a chair as you hear more gun shots getting closer and closer. You notice that other students are also carrying guns, and you soon find yourself in a battlefield. You’re there wondering how this all started. How was it all possible when schools are supposed to be one of the safest places? There is only one answer. Allowing guns into learning environments can cause great damage to students. This is why guns should not be allowed in college campuses.

This forces students to rely on the campus police to protect them, but due to the size of most universities, adequate protection is virtually impossible. Simply said, “university police are unable to prevent violent crimes, and it is heartlessly arrogant to disarm potential victims” and leave them with no means of defense against an attacker (Lund). By prohibiting guns, students are put in unavoidable, dangerous situations every day. It is a truly despicable act to leave students defenseless, yet colleges continually deny that there is an issue involving campus security. Constantly, students face the reality that if a dangerous situation occurs, they will not be capable of protecting themselves or others. This results in students constantly fearing for their safety as they roam the campus waiting to become a victim of a lurking criminal. Every student deserves an education, but more importantly, they deserve safety in all situations. Although colleges strive for a safe campus, all campuses have some type of criminal activity. Permitting these life saving weapons could help reverse this issue and lead to an

“The metal detectors and searches caused chaos, with some students missing as many as three class periods while waiting in line to be scanned. In all, over one-third of students were marked late for class. Attendance at Wadleigh dropped about ten percent that day.” (Mukherjee) This quote shows that having metal detectors in schools does help with security, but it also hinders the student’s education by making them tardy and even miss entire classes. “In the wake of recent high-profile campus shootings, schools have become almost prison-like in terms of security and in diminishing a student’s rights.” (Berger) This shows that schools may go too far when it comes to security. To conclude some security pre-cautions are needed, but not to the point of prison like