UT Campus Carry

HANSOL MUN - One of my peers in class wrote about University of Texas' campus carry and open carry law and how it would influence the usage of gun and increase the amount of harm it will do to the students. Mr, Mun makes a valid argument, and in which I agree on, that students can not be trusted with such deadly weapon and will increase the possible chance of using them to relief their personal desire. And how international students that come from different country to study aboard at UT will be a disappointment and a threat to them.

The logical point Mr. Mun made at some degree we all can agree on. Guns are deathly, people are stupid. However, I wonder if Mr. Mun did not see any benefits from campus carry and open carry. Because as I read his article, he did not point out any factual advantages to students being able to protect themselves. Although I, too, believe that campus carry should be limited in campuses, there are inevitable facts to having able to carry guns. With all the current events going on about homeless people filling up the Drag or the tragic death of a freshmen student that was murdered, having campus carry seems kind of necessary when walking around UT campus alone. There are many cases where a school was in locked down because of a armed person roaming around the classroom. If teachers were able to carry guns, the thirty or more students would be insignificantly much more safer. If the movie theatre you are in is attacked by a mentally ill patient who insanely just wants to kill everyone, the crowd would be able to survive the attack. Sadly, these events happen and people are killed and robbed at public places and their own homes. Many would argue that only if they had guns, they would be alive today.