Houston Community College Firearms and Increase Violence in College Campuses Essay

250 words and one source to support your argument required.

Guns on campus should be banned

Allowing guns in classrooms will not only increase risk but, will stifle classroom debates – an essential component of learning. It will furthermore irredeemably hurt the national and international reputation of the flagship universities. Reputations take a notoriously long time to build, but a short time to destroy.

Do I dread the potential presence of young vigilantes – because, let’s not be euphemistic about it, “vigilante” is the right word for the people (mostly men) who will carry concealed guns – in my classroom? Certainly. But I don’t want to concede an inch to fear mongers: University campuses are some of the safest places in the United States. What I do fear, what I am truly scared of, is that we will get used to the presence of guns. I fear that sharing a classroom with students “packing heat” will stop shocking us as it now does, and that we will become something other than what we are: Women and men committed to teaching and learning in environments where everybody can freely express his or her ideas.

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