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
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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
If a tighter restriction is placed on gun control, thus making it harder for individuals to obtain their own personal firearm, our elementary and secondary schools would be more sheltered and secure. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza a “socially awkward” twenty year old went rogue. Lanza went on a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut which resulted in the death of twenty kindergarten children, four educators, the principle and the school’s psychologist. The mass murder ended when Lanza turned the gun on himself; just before the horrific massacre Lanza shot his mother to death in their home a couple minutes away from the elementary school. Regulating gun control would make schools much safer than the society as a whole.
Picture yourself sitting calmly in a classroom. Suddenly, the intercom blares to life, speaking urgently, “There is an armed intruder in the building! The intruder is in the math hallway.” Your mind takes a moment to process that you are in the math hallway. You know that your teacher is allowed to carry a gun for lethal force only, and you know that their weapon might be the only thing to save your life. This is an instance for why teachers should carry guns. Teachers should be able to carry guns in their classrooms because they would discourage school shootings, defend their students before a police force could arrive, and the Second Amendment states that all men have the right to bear arms.
The first reason that guns should only be used by professionals is that schools are being affected by guns owners with no expert training. Studies show that schools effected by guns, depresses students standardized test scores by nearly 5%. (The long, October 21, 2015). Another study shows that at least 336 gunshots are shot in the vanity of schools over a year. (Unintended, October 21, 2016)
Right now we are having problems in schools that we didn't have years ago because parents don't teach the fundamental values and or manners, since there is since there is a lot of violence in streets and tv shows the kids grow with all that and try to do what they see because that's what they think it is correct in this last years they have been many cases of bullying because one of the values that's a getting lost is respect that is the fundamental value each kid should have, if we continue like this in some years kids would be worst than adults in recent years it has been seen that students get weapons with them such as gums and knives to school and try to harm and even kill the teacher or other students, recent studies have shown that the main reasons of these violence: first of all because weapons are very accessible in this
This is a world where gun control could easily be seen as one of the most controversial topics around. And it brings up the controversy, could it make college campuses safer if a select number of students and staff are able to bring concealed weapons? It could theoretically prove that students would be able to have the chance to protect themselves if a shooter were to get to the school and start rampaging, but others could see it as too much of a random thing to happen and too much panic could happen with many students running around, causing even more chaos for everyone there.
The U.S. should not force arms upon teachers. However, if a teacher decides he or she would like to carry a gun on the school’s property they should be allowed to. When we see a police officer carrying a concealed weapon we do not panic or fret because we grew up being told police officers were around to help us. What differentiates a police officer and teachers; a badge and training. If we allowed teachers who wanted to carry arms, to carry, we should enforce that they undergo the same, “Training program,” that police officers go through, which generally, “lasts around 12 to 14 weeks.”1 The training courses should be offered to teachers during the summer. And only once they finish the training should they be issued a badge and a license to carry their gun on school property. This procedure, and hopefully one day banning Assault Rifles, will ensure that those who may go through with a school shooting, will think twice before following through on his or her plan.
This essay is a reflect of the preoccupation of the authors for putting guns in the hand of campuses. Even though this worry should include students, parents and society in general, not only the writers. It pretty clear their purpose is to get attention about this topic. They have right when say colleges are safer than majority of public places. Nonetheless, I disagree with some points posed it.
Enoch Brown School, (1764) 11 victims. The Bath School Disaster, (1927) 45 victims. Texas University, (1966). 16 victims. Columbine High School, Colorado, (1999). 15 victims. Virginia Tech University, (2007). 33 victims. Northern Illinois University, (2008). 6 victims. These are some of the many tragic massacres that have occurred in American schools.
"Instead of benefiting the students, the mere concept is already causing them to stress,” Megan said in agreement.
In 2012 guns were allowed on 200 public campuses in the United States. The campus carry bill passed in many states like Colorado, Idaho, Kansas and Mississippi. The bill states individuals 21 years of age, which obtain a handgun license will be able to carry a gun on campus. The idea is to increase the people’s safety and decrease the number of mass shootings and other cases in the United States. There have been many questions brought up by both sides of the issue regarding whether guns will protect individuals on campuses or make it more dangerous. Twenty States in the Unites States have prohibit the law to carrying concealed guns on campus but many others have approved the bill to let people carry one legally.
Eighty hours of training is not enough for most educators to prepare physically and mentally in terms of efficiently handling school shooting situations. An exception of a minority of teachers, who were serving as Marines Corps officers, might be willing to be armed with gun because of their firearm experience. Nevertheless, a number of those teachers are minor, compared to the majority of teachers, who have never been in any training of gun skills. If arming teachers becomes an officially nationally policy, eighty-hour training is not enough for teachers to efficiently use guns. In South Dakota, educators have joined the program named “school sentinels” that allows them to be armed with weapons. In order to qualify this program, teachers have to not only “be approved by the school board or a law enforcement agency,” but also take a class with “eighty hours
Despite the harms associated with handguns, the Second Amendment, which states that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, protects the private ownership of them. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled against gun bans or regulations as violating the 2nd amendment. In the landmark ruling Heller vs. District of Columbia in 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that a thirty-two year ban on the private ownership of handguns in the District of Columbia was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court decided that the Second Amendment implies that the government cannot enact an outright ban on commonly held weapons or prevent citizens from having
A gun can kill people if people use it in the wrong way. However, in the U.S., people are allowed to carry guns to protect themselves, even though a gun is dangerous for people. The relationship between guns and the U.S. has been discussed in the past and present. How about in the school? Should people use a gun to protect themselves on campus? Carrying guns on campus is also allowed in some states. People have different views on this issue, but they should consider student’s safety first. Because guns are dangerous, teachers should not be allowed to carry guns at schools.
There are gun control laws to try and reduce the number of violent shootings that occur. They are trying to put limits on weapons that Americans can own. The government is trying to take our guns away mainly because of people that are criminally insane. Most of the people who commit crimes don’t even have the weapons legally. If the government takes away the rights of people who are allowed to have firearms in their possession, it will most definitely cause an outrage. Most people believe that the people should be more capable of maintain proper use of the firearms instead of having them all taken away. Taking the firearms from Americans away would cause a lot more problems than there actually are. The people will be upset with the
Gun control is an issue that is dominating the current media coverage as well as political discussion. Democrats have been pushing for more gun control but Republicans haven’t been as reactive. The Republicans gained control of the House, Senate, and executive branch of government in 2016 at that put the issue on hold. However, recent mass shootings have caused the issue to come to light again, and this time there’s increased pressure, more so than ever before, to present legislation that controls the use of guns. Aside from that, there is a surprising lack of discussion regarding the relationship between gun control and police brutality. Police brutality is another issue that has dominated the politics of the Democrats in recent times. There were numerous incidents which led the spotlight to be on this issue, and lot of the incidents were racism-related. Although police brutality is an issue that stems from racism of local authorities and ignorance of citizens, the only way to reduce it immediately is through the use of strict gun control laws.