Common Arguments Against Campus Carry

Source: "Common Arguments Against Campus Carry." Concealed Campus, Students for Concealed Carry, 2011.

Summary: On this webpage, the group, Students for Concealed Carry, gave many different arguments on how carrying concealed weapon could be potential bad for college students while on Campus. They provided a lot of back up to show how it could be dangerous, such as different court cases, school shootings, and mental reasoning.

Quality: The group who made this argument page provided many different statistics, such as, "According to 2002-2006 statistics*** from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas concealed handgun license holders were five and a half times less likely than members of Texas’s general population to commit manslaughter and four times less likely to commit murder."When the asterisks are shown, it gives you a link to go to the actual source where they found the information. Most of the argument included a type of resource to back them up.

Issues: Although they did give different ways to help support them, they did not include any counterattacks to their arguments, making it a tad bit bias.

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Arguments

Concealed Carry

Campus

Shootings

Statistics

Ready, Fire, Aim: The College Campus Gun Fight

Source: Birnbaum, Robert. Change. Sept.-Oct. 2013. vol. 45. Issue 5. pp. 6-14. EBSCOhost.com

Summary: The article describes the impact on gun control in college campuses. The article is obviously for gun control and explains the history of gun policies and how over the years there will be an increase of legal gun possession on campus.

Quality: The article is very thorough and focuses on the connection of college and gun control. The longevity of the article helped bring the point across on concealed carry on campuses.

Issues: N/A.

Key words and Phrases:
Gun control
Gun laws
College campus
Concealed carry

Gun Control on College and University Campuses in the Wake of District of Columbia v. Heller and Mcdonald v. City of Chicago

Source:  Wasserman, Lewis. Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law. 2011. Vol 19, Issue 1, page 1-57. EBSCOhost.com

Summary: The article studies the effects gun control has on students, faculty and others in the controversy over guns on campus. Throughout the article, the study focuses on the controversy of the second amendment, the right to bear arms, and how concealed carry on campus contradict one another. The article also examines where on campuses law enforcement feels there should be stricter gun control and gun possession.

Quality: The article uses landmark court cases to connect the gun control controversy to the examination of the court case. The article does this thoroughly by going through all gun laws and gun activist through time up until the light of the District of Columbia V. Heller and McDonald V. City of Chicago.

Issue: The article was really long and it was difficult to find the connection to gun control on campus especially if someone doesn't know law terms. For example, "The court noted that 8 VAC § 35-60-20 did not impose a total ban of weapons on campus; rather, it restricted weapons: only in those places where people congregate and are most vulnerable inside-campus buildings and at campus events."  Majority of the article was descriptions of the court cases and the history of gun regulations in America. There was only one section that involved college concealed carry.

Keywords and Phrases:
Due process law
Gun laws
Precedent
Gun control

Citation: Wasserman, Lewis M. Gun Control on College and University Campuses in the Wake of District of Columbia V. Heller and McDonald V. City of Chicago." Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law. vol. 19, no. 1, Dec. 2011, pp 1-57.

"Students' Drinking Status and Likelihood of Carrying a Weapon on Campus"

Source: Anderson, Peter, et al. "Students' Drinking Status and Likelihood of Carrying a Weapon on Campus." American Journal of Health Studies, vol. 30, no. 4, 151-158. Oct. 2015. EBSCOhost.com

Summary: This article shows the relation between weapons and alcohol on college campuses. The authors showed how the association with binge drinking and carrying concealed bring people to feel unsafe and at risk of drinking as well. They talked about how violence on campus went back to the late 1900's and provided ways to practice safety and limit the risk of violent interactions at college.

Quality: The authors included many data tables showing how many admit to binge drinking and also carrying a concealed weapon on school campuses. Also, they provided a table to see how many students feel unsafe and at risk of alcoholism while attending college. After the tables, they gave a detailed explanation of how this research draws back to their point. Having their PhD's, the authors might have even experienced violence during their college years which would be useful with personal experiences. Using the data tables can become more understanding to some people who do not really comprehend what they could be explaining.

Issues: The data came from the 2010 CORE Alcohol and Drug Survey. Since it is now 2017, the evidence provided could be pretty outdated to most. Also, the article doesn't explain if this was for or against the Concealed Carry Ban so it might have been biased. At one point in the text, it says "violence on the college campus is not new and continues to be a great concern (Booker, 2014)," but with this information, it does not explain afterwards what they think.

Key Words and Phrases:
Alcohol
College
CORE Alcohol and Drug Survey
Weapon
Violence

"Concealed Carry Bans and the American College Campus: A Law, Social Sciences, and Policy Perspective"

Source: Arrigo, Bruce A. and Austin Acheson. "Concealed Carry Bans and the American College Campus: A Law, Social Sciences, and Policy Perspective." Contemporary Justice Review,  Vol. 19, No. 1, 120-141. Mar. 2016.

Summary: This document explains the ethical and moral reasoning for banning concealed weapons on college campuses. The author, Bruce Arrigo, analyzes the moral support for banning the conceal carry weapons on campus. The document calls for practices to be done to eliminate the destructive amount of campus shootings and to prevent more from occurring.

Quality: This article appears to be a very high-quality source. Arrigo uses many key points about the carry concealed weapon ban. They also used research from other publications to strengthen their argument, for example, "A study published by Bouffard, Nobles, Wells, and Cavanaugh (2011) attempted to predict what the effect would be on the prevalence of guns on campus if the concealed carry ban was removed." This document also provided different perspective on the concealed carry ban.

Issues: The document was really long, making it hard to keep track of all the different ideas. Although, they provided a well-developed summary at the end of the paper to remind the readers the main idea. If they left out the ending summary, it could have lost interest for the readers to finish out the entire thing.

Key Words and Phrases:
College Campus
Concealed Weapons
Ethics
Government Policy
Gun Laws