My fellow classmates wrote on their blog Your Average American about Senate Bill 11. Senate Bill 11 allows individuals with a concealed handgun license to carry a handgun while on Texas public university campuses. My classmate mention an argument an ACC student address on the news about students not being able to focus on their studies and students shouldn’t be worrying about their safety, I totally agree. Most of the times students are stress with homework or studying and adding another stress about not feeling safe in their school could cause something to go wrong. Most colleges have campus police on their campus, why not add more officer on campus. Police officers have the training to fire weapons and defense training. I understand Senate Bill 11 a requirement is to receive training from an instructor certified by the Texas Department of Public Safety, but this training is only to fire a gun, this training doesn’t include special training if a campus shooting happens. Let me give you an example lets said someone who had a license to carry a gun has a mental shock when he/she see an active shooter in their campus what happens next? Many possibilities can happen when theirs no special training in a deadly situation, that’s why campus police should handle our safety.
Another thing my classmate blog mention was the lack of safety drills in ACC in a case of an active shooter, I agree that ACC needs to start having safety drills especial if something occurs. I honest wouldn’t know what to do if there was an active shooter, I would be scared for my safety. I hope legislators would first focus on providing special training in all college campus, making all students participate in safety drills and providing more campus police officers. Overall my classmate’s blog was well written and he executed his overall argument about Senate Bill 11, really good work.
