The new law regarding concealed handguns being allowed on university campuses in Texas is a bad idea in my opinion. First of all I believe that the second amendment was not originally supposed to allow anyone to own a firearm. It could have meant something else, but the government has decided that it means just that, which creates situations such as this, were a new bill could let students carry handguns inside a school campus. Has the government not learned that columbine happened because a pair of teenagers were allowed to buy ammunition from a local Kmart without anyone saying a thing? I think that if this bill goes through there are going to be a massive amount of problems that have to do with firearms in Universities.
There are many things that could go wrong in letting this go through, such as someone accidentally firing a bullet inside a class and killing someone in the process. Also if a mass school shooting were to happen again, there might be an instance of someone accidentally shooting an innocent victim, instead of getting the actual shooter. I also believe that students who live in dorms will get to have guns inside their dorm and this could lead to a shooting where there is really no higher authority to control the students. I believe that school is not a dangerous place to be in, but with this new bill it’s as if the government wants to make everyone believe that it is. Yes there are instances in which tragedies have occurred such as the Virginia tech massacre, but I believe that if students were allowed to have handguns at the time, things would have been a lot worse.
In a way I can see why the government believes that this could help out with gun violence in school, but I don’t believe that it is the right approach and that they should really reconsider this decision. I know I wouldn’t want to be in a school were students are so insecure that they believe having a gun will make them impervious to danger.
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