by Shelbe Stewart

Created on: January 26, 2009   Last Updated: January 28, 2009

Debate: Should Colleges be gun-free zones?

Yes! By all means, colleges should be gun free zones. And also in high school too! We live in a world wide zone now, where strange things, and strange acting people, have strange thoughts. And they are taking those strange thoughts out on anyone, that happens to cross their path. Schools and colleges are thoughts of learning. We can't allow those thoughts of higher learning to be destroyed.

There was a time, when a fist to fist was the thing at school with, "meet me after class", the boys always uttered to one another. Those days are gone forever, and we must realize that. We've had many wake-up calls around the world, with many young, and innocent people dying at halls of learning. We must move forward into, and with the future, and do something to correct this.

When gangs come to school. Huh? Oh! you don't think gangs go to school? Sure they do! Oh, they don't go to learn. They go to threathen, and to tear down the learning process. Theirs and others who are in the way. Gangs start with one person. Some have followers, some are a gang alone.

If we, as parents and citizen's of this great land, buy and install all sort of electric, and electronic devices into the safety of stuff, like t.v.'s, tape players, and other pieces, we crowd into our houses, and apartments, should'nt we do, and give the same protection for the learning places we send our most valuable assets to? Our children!

Its hard enough keeping a four-point grade average, and then having to duck fire from some gun toting person, who wants to die, and who wants to kill everybody in sight, for some confused reason or another. Colleges, and all schools are halls of learning, so we must install electronic devices through-out the campus, that alerts when any fire-arm is brought onto the campus ground.

Writing a gun-free zone law on paper, then following through with the action is proper action. This does'nt mean we have no control over our young adults coming to school. What it means is that we don't have any control over everyone's mental state. Although we'd like to think that many people come to schools, and colleges to learn, often their thoughts are mixed up and any static they receive can set them off. To make colleges gun free zones, the pass events have taught us that we must know when a gun, or guns, have been brought on the school ground. We can't and should'nt take any risk of pass events ever happening again.

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