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Gun Control In Schools Essay

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Although there are many ways that schools can assist students with mental illnesses, their hands are also tied. For the amount of concern many Americans and politicians show for the failing healthcare system, there is a lack of funding and a shortage of school counselors, allowing for school violence to continue. Schools are educational settings, not clinical settings, and so they do not have the authority to provide treatment services to students, as they are unable to obtain malpractice coverage, making them liable for any incidents that would occur. There is only so much a school can do for a student who has a serious mental illness such as:

“Mental health screening opportunities [that] allow counselors to identify students who are at-risk …show more content…

However, the Courts have “universally agreed that the right provided by the Second Amendment is not absolute and that many kinds of gun legislation designed to protect public safety remain valid.” Gun control supporters argue that the Second Amendment only represents the states rights to maintain militias while opponents of gun control argue that the Second Amendment protects the individual's right to possess firearms. Two U.S. Supreme Court cases, District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, redefined the meaning of the Second Amendment. In the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court overturned Washington, D.C.’s long standing ban on handgun possession and the requirement that all firearms presiding in a residence must be “stored unloaded and disassembled or bound by a locking device (a requirement which had no exception for self-defense).” While in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Court ruled that “the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments in addition to the federal government and invalidated handgun bans in Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois,” both wins for opponents of gun

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