Stakeholders

Would Allowing Students to Carry Weapons Make College Campuses Safer?

One side of this issue believes that allowing students to carry weapons on campus would most definitely create a safer environment. The organization of Gun Owners of America argues that "guns have already saved lives at school". In many instances there has been a situation where a shooting is occurring or about to occur and it has been stopped because a bystander with a firearm used their weapon to either take out the shooter, or make him surrender his weapons. Another point is that as a shooter, you are not going to want to do a shooting if you know that bystanders have guns and will probably do something about it. This definitely prevents shooting from happening because the shooters are scared off by the fact that they are entering an armed environment where they could be killed as well if they start to cause chaos.

The opposite side of the issue believes that bringing weapons into a school environment will just lead to more violence. The Brady Campaign argues that the college age 18-24 is the point in a persons life where they are most volatile and most apt to committ such a crime. The Brady Campaign then reasons, why allow firearms and weapons to to be had at the most "dangerous point in an individuals life, and when they are surrounded by thousands of individuals at their volatile stage in life as well.

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