Should students carry concealed weapons on campus? Senate Bill 182  works against school shootings by allowing guns on campus

After the recent shooting in Newtown, Conn. at a public school, the government is taking action in preventing further school massacres. Whether or not students should be able to carry concealed weapons on campus has fired offa heated debate.

The Second Amendment states the right to bear arms. On Jan. 17, Sen. Brian Birdwell filed Senate Bill 182, which would allow handgun license holders to carry weapons on public universities.

The intention is to prevent further outbreaks and offer protection in case of a killing spree.

For safety measures, the size of the magazine would be limited, as well as the ammunition that may be purchased.

Therefore, the possibility of gun shootings is still as high as before, but at least there will be fewer bullets in one magazine and more guns on public grounds.

The hypothetical situation may occur: a depressed and bullied student in his senior year decided one morning to go to Academy to buy a gun and some ammunition and thought:

“Today I am going to kill students and afterwards myself.”

The thought that a fellow student, who is sitting two rows in front of me, carries a gun and would be able to take this troubled student’s life away, is more scary than one person with one gun.

Although, Birdwell believes that these new measures will keep potential snipers away and stop them from acting ‘crazy.’

This scenario might also end in a total holocaust, where students start freaking out and start shooting at each other, forgetting in fear who the original shooter was.

Innocent people could be hurt and more gun violence would spread around the country, because with 300 million guns in the U.S. and a population of 300 million people, the math should be easy that every household owns a gun.

In reality, of course, that is not true, but our hypothetical imaginary student will probably find a way to get a hold of one, if he or she plans on doing so.

With concealed licensed handgun owners in the room, the pressure and fear would increase and fewer massacres would happen because Bill 182 would let students and professors calmly use firearms, if a killer came to campus.

In this scenario, there is still hope   that not only the troubled kid should go through a ‘psych’-evaluation, but also Birdwell and the rest of state representatives, who are voting for this bill.

The guy in the seat in front of me with a Colt .45 strapped to his waist is just as intimidating as any other person with a gun, who is not a trained policeman or from the military.

The right of the Second Amendment to bear arms should not be violated, but not everybody in Texas has to stand on the far right side of the debate to be able to show off their new hunting rifle at school.