Persuasive Essay On Weapons On Campus

The debate over weapons on campus is more prevalent today because of the many recent mass shooting that have occurred in centers for education and other public places like the shootings at Stoneman Douglas High School, Sandy Hook Elementary, and Virginia Tech. Mass shooting/active shooter situations at education centers are usually committed by students of that education center or by someone connected to the educational center. Even though allowing weapons on college campuses may seem like a good idea, weapons should not be present on campus because of the negative effects it has on the campus and puts people’s life at risk. College campuses should not allow weapons on campus because of accidental discharges and mishaps that may occur on campus, like students who are on drugs while carrying a weapon. The presence of weapons on a college campus may cause accidental discharges of a weapon and mishaps

The more people that are armed, the more likely a mass shooting will occur because the chance of a person committing a mass shooting increases with the number of weapons. All that is required for a mass shooting to happen is for a person with a weapon to have a motive for harming many people. Dr. Reginald Fennell states, “Perhaps our greatest fear is that in an outburst of anger one of these individuals with a concealed weapon would use it against an innocent person(s) on campus” (Fennell 1). This quote demonstrates that people are afraid that a person with a weapon on campus may harm others. The increase of weapons would increase the fear of mass shooting and the chances of a mass shooting occurring because it just takes one person to begin shooting at others for a mass shooting to occur. Weapons on campus would also cause confusion because people on campus would not be able to tell the motives of a person with the