Posted: March 12th, 2024

Community Colleges and New Legislation

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Community Colleges and New Legislation
Introduction
Recently, there has been a rise in legislations to take care of almost every issue. We have witnessed a number of laws being made most of which have been either controversial or infamous. This paper however, talks about one of the legislations that has been passed by the legislators with reference to colleges in Texas. Of great concern is the 84th Legislature laws on carrying of guns in schools.
New Laws on Texas Colleges
Laws (SB 1907) permitting the carrying of concealed weapons in colleges in Texas have been passed and as we speak, they are already in force. The 84th Legislature passed into law regulations allowing people to carry guns into school and these could be concealed by licensed gun holders who would be free to carry their guns either in cars or concealed elsewhere within their reach. Colleges have however been allowed to come up with their own policies that would restrict guns in certain destined and sensitive areas. The law states that schools should not come up with policies that would prohibit such provisions as stated in the (SB 1907).

Impact Of The New Laws
With the rampant cases of mass shootings in the United States of America, anything that would make these guns readily available at the disposal of anyone be it licensed or not brings fear in many. Further, these laws would compromise the security of students who might be afraid of unknown attacks (Michael et al, 2014: 2024 – Essay Writing Service. Custom Essay Services Cheap). These days, there has been much to write about radicalized youths and with the continued attacks from people linked to terror groups such as ISIS the government cannot know who could attack students and who would not. Therefore, this laws pose a great threat to the lives of students and would most probably lead to lack of concentration in school among other negative effects (Hemenway, Azrael & Miller, 2001).
Guns need to be put far away from areas where any wrong person might use their availability to harm others. Several incidences have been witnessed as the results of leaving firearms to students. Proponents of such laws believe that such laws would prevent mass killings but the truth is that the contrary is what would happen. It has already been witnessed as Charles Whitman a student, shot 16 people in cold blood injuring more than 40 people. The shooting remained historical in the American documentaries.
Advocates for these kind of laws say that people have the right to defend themselves. They go on to say that if the State gives them permission to carry guns as long as they are licensed why shouldn’t they carry them anywhere they go including schools? Therefore it is, they say, their right to carry guns and defend themselves anywhere they are. Some argue that if guns are increased crime would decrease. Everything the pro-guns in colleges say is that they have the right to defend themselves (Lee., 2016: 2024 – Do my homework – Help write my assignment online).

Among those who championed for such laws we have Republican Governor Gregg Abbot. These laws also received a lot of support from other Republican counterparts. They pointed out that, the law will be effected under school heads. They put more emphasis that, the law aimed to prevent those trying to carry out the massacre in Campuses. To add on the list of supporters of these laws, we have Ryan Guillen, Glenn Hegar Jr. Matt Krause and Scot Sanford among others . On the other hand we have those who were against such legislative moves that allowed guns in colleges. Among them were school administration such as the University of Texas that did not succeed in their efforts to bring the laws down. Also, victims of previous shootings such as John Artly were against such laws (Lee, 2016: 2024 – Do my homework – Help write my assignment online).
Conclusion
Lastly, with the rising cases of radicalization I do not see anything positive coming out of these laws. The short-term peace may prevail but in the long run disaster could be brewing. It will come to a time when the government may not know who has been turned a terrorist and who has not and because the guns would be freely allowed, it would be too late to solve curb the problem. Further, the government does not know who is a friend to who and that may bring many criminals into one school who may gang up and plan massive attacks that the 1966 shootings. What needs to be done away with is the thought that self defense through use of guns is a good idea for colleges. Therefore, such a language ought to be scrapped together with these risky laws.

Works Cited
Lee., T., (2016: 2024 – Do my homework – Help write my assignment online). New Texas Law Allows College Students to carry guns on campus. Published on August 1st 2016: 2024 – Do my homework – Help write my assignment online. Retrieved from www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amp/new-texas-lawallows-college-students-carry-guns-campus-n620911
Michael, R., Cavanaugh, MA, Jeffrey A. B., William, W., & Matt R. B. (2014: 2024 – Essay Writing Service. Custom Essay Services Cheap) Student Attitudes Toward Concealed Hand Guns On Campus At 2 Universities Vol 102, No. 12| American Journal of Public Health
Hemenway, D. Azrael D. & Miller M. (2001) National Attitudes Concerning Gun Carrying In The United States. Inj Prev. 7(4):282-285.

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