Texas legislation to allow college students (with a concealed handgun permit) to carry their gun on campus

Introduction

In a move that at first seems to go against rationality (rationality but not denim), the state of Texas passed an initiative that allows college students to carry guns on campus. Sen. Jeff Wentworth managed to pass his initiative in his fourth attempt by a vote of 21 to 10 (the ten who voted against were Democrats). This new law will allow students to carry our Imprint Texans have concealed firearms in all college buildings, including classrooms (Atkin). Which might make you think twice to suppress teachers to students or start a heated discusón. Students may also have firearms in the dormitories of schools.

Discussion

In recent years there have been multiple killings in schools and universities, the logic of the state of Texas is that students have the right to defend themselves if something does happen, for others, carrying weapons and increases only encourages this type of violence student (Carter). The Texas Senate passed legislation to grant students the right to carry guns on college campuses, provided that they are hidden.

The law is after business school massacres perpetrated by crazed gunmen who traumatisèrent america, as at Virginia Tech in 2007 (thirty-three killed and twenty-nine wounded) or Red Lake in 2005 (ten dead and twelve wounded). It is difficult to imagine how such measures can effectively improve the safety of students, when a crazed gunman will again appeared in a Texas campus (statistically in forty-four years), if each student pulls out his gun into the crowd, we will be entitled from the first salvo in a beautiful massacre that may well turn the battle. If you see a friend being shot next to you by someone brandishing a weapon, in panic, you can feel the soul of ...