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3 & A TITATION Their TISK assessment is people who wont teave the mouse unarmed, Page 174 Speaking of flawed risk assessment, suggestions that Texas faculty avoid teaching controversial topics are predicated on the notion that students are so intensely engaged with the material in their classes that they are willing to risk doing 20 to life and not receiving a passing grade) to challenge our ideas with gunfire. I find this utterly implausible. In every other context where we talk about student engagement, it is to decry its absence. Most of us complain that our students won't even read, and now we are worrying about them being so engaged that they might throw caution to the wind and start shooting? Cowboy up. Texas professors! Tench however and whatever you want. Don't worry about the presence of legally carried guns in your classrooms. If you are going to worry, worry about someone illegally bringing a gun on campus with the intention of causing mayhem, not someone who legally carries a gun in the hope of protecting himself from harm. And those students whose faces cloud with anger when you attack their complacently bourgeois understanding of Jane Austen, they are probably just reacting to something on their phones. And, anyway, they're too worried about their grades to shoot you Source Gre, trx stop Worrying out in the Classroom Theyse Alexy Herri Chonde wawat Mwen 17, 2010 REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. On what grounds does Gilbert argue that allowing faculty and students to carry guns will make little difference in the incidence of gun violence on campus? 2. What evidence does Gilbert use to support his statements that many students and faculty already carry concealed weapons on campus even where it is illegal to do so? 3. According to Gilbert, why are some faculty worried about students carrying guns in their classrooms and how does Gilbert respond to their concerns? Perspectives on Gun Control The United States has more guns per person-an average of 1.3 guns for every American-than any other country in the world. The United States also has a higher homicide rate by gun than any other developed nation. In 2015, for the first time, more young Americans died from guns than in automobile accidents. The gun homicide rate in the United States has since risen to more than 12.0 per 100,000 people, compared to 2.2 in Canada. 1.7 in Norway, and 0.06 in Japan. In addition, almost half of the mass shootings around the world have taken place in the United States.26 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 2010 there have been more than 200 school shootings resulting in death. Following the December 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and 6 adults were killed by 20-year old Adam Lanza, there were calls to rethink our gun laws and our interpretation of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states: "A well-regulated militin, being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." The National Rifle Association (NRA) responded to the school shooting by calling for armed guards in schools, while others argue that more guns simply put our children at greater risk While most countries have responded to mass shootings by severely tightening gun control laws, most Americans do not favor an across the board rethinking of the Second Amendment. Prior to 2010, the majority of Americans favored stricter gun control over gun ownership. However, since 2010 Americans have been pretty much evenly split over which is more important: protecting the Page 173 right to own guns or controlling ownership of guns?? In the following readings, Erik Gilbert, associate dean of the graduate school and professor of history at Arkansas State University. argues that rules restricting students and faculty from carrying guns on campus have little effect on gun violence. Mark Kelly, husband of former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Gifford, disagrees. He argues that we need stricter gun control laws in order to reduce gun violence Wounding About Guns in the Classroom Thevine Already Here 6C Mostly doudy ERIK GILBERT Erik Gilbert is an associate dean of the graduate school and a professor of history at Arkansas State University. In the following commentary, Gilbert argues that allowing students and faculty to carry concealed guns on campus will have little effect on gun violence. If you work at a Texas college and are worried by the prospect of having guns in your classroom. relax. The new campus carry law changes your risk of gun violence very little. I can almost guarantee that if you have a few semesters of teaching under your belt, at some point there have been students with guns in your classroom. If those illegally armed students were not moved to violence by the content of your course or the statements of their fellow students, it seems highly improbable that a new group of legally armed students will prove to be more volatile or violence-prone than their scofflaw peers. If you really think that there are no guns on college campuses in Texas, or elsewhere, because there is a law that forbids having guns on campus, you are mistaken. On my own campus in Arkansas, despite a strict prohibition on guns, in the last decade there has been at least one accidental discharge of a gun in a dorm room, several students who have been found to have guns in their cars, and at least one faculty member who was caught with a gun in on-campus faculty housing. And those are just people in casual" possession of guns with no intention of causing harm or mischief who ran afoul of the campus police because they were foolish or indiscreet with them. Given these incidents and what I know about the prevailing regional attitudes toward guns, I have to assume that significant numbers of students, and possibly faculty, bring guns on campus regularly. Some of these probably do so intentionally, having calculated that the perceived benefit of having a firearm available should they need it outweighs the very small risk of being caught with an illegal gun. On my campus. I suspect this group has increased in number since we had an active shooter incident in December. It went as 60 Most doudy 4 D de UNE 2 On my camps, speet his group is merenser merce We Meretvestorer merecer. T wentas well as one of these things can. The shooter" did not actually fire his weapon, and no one, including the guy with the sun got hurt but it still scared people pretty badly Even on campuses that have not experienced an incident like this, the intense media coverage of such events has created a perception of increased risk. For some people the response to that perception is to carry a gum, whether or not it is legal to do so. The other people who are armed in your classroom are those who just plain forgot they had a gun in their backpack, purse, or jacket If that sounds farfetched, remember that gun owners, just like other people are occasionally absent-minded. It was just a year ago that a child found a loaded pistol in a toilet stall in the U.S. Capitol building. It had been len there accidentally by a police officer People try to get on planes with guns. I was working my way through the security maze in Charlotte a few weeks ago and passed no fewer than three signs reminding passengers that most of the guns that Homeland Security finds in people's carry on usage are le there by mistake.... If some people forget that they have guns with them when they are about to get on a plane, it seems highly likely that students occasionally forget that they left a hangin in a car, bag. purse, or jacket when they are doing something as routine as going to class So, if you have been teaching for a while, some of your students and possibly your colleagues) have probably been illegally bringing guns onto campus and into classtooms. So far, despite the presence of firearms, no one has shot you or any of your students intentionally or unintentionally, no matter how controversial the content of your course. What will change when legal concealed carry permit holders being guns into your classroom? Not much. Because permit holders' glins will be concealed any guns in your classroom will remain invisible, just as they were before Are concealed carry permit holders a violent lot? No. In Texas they commit crimes at about the same rate as cops and at a lower rate than the general public Texas requires that concealed carry permit holders be at least 21. so most undergrads will not be eligible for a permit, and those who are will be a little more mature than the average student. Texas requires concealed carry permit holders to submit photos and fingerprints with their applications, and the Department of Public Safety has up to 60 days to conducta Background check on applicants PM Aa background check on applicants. While it's easy to dismiss students who want to bring guns on campus as victims of a culture of fear that overestimates the risks of daily life and the utility of responding to those risks with a gun, that argument can just as easily be reversed. People who are terrified by the prospect of a few students who have gone through background checks bringing concealed weapons to class are being just as irrational in their risk assessment as people who won't leave the house unarmed. Page 174 Speaking of flawed risk assessment, suggestions that Texas faculty avoid teaching controversial topics are predicated on the notion that students are so intensely engaged with the material in their classes that they are willing to risk doing 20 to life and not receiving a passing grade) to challenge our ideas with gunfire. I find this utterly implausible. In every other context where we talk about student engagement, it is to decry its absence. Most of us complain that our students won't even read, and now we are worrying about them being so engaged that they might throw caution to the wind and start shooting? Cowboy up. Texas professors! Teach however and whatever you want. Don't worry about the presence of legally carried guns in your classrooms. If you are going to worry, worry about someone illegally bringing a gun on campus with the intention of causing mayhem, not someone who legally carries a gun in the hope of protecting himself from harm. And those students whose faces cloud with anger when you attack their complacently bourgeois understanding of Jane Austen, they are probably just reacting to something on their phones. And, anyway, they're too worried about their grades to shoot you. Source: Gilbert, Erik "Stop Worrying About Guns in the Classroom. They're Already Here." The Chronicle or Higher Education, March 17, 2015 REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. On what grounds does Gilbert argue that allowing faculty and students to carry guns will make little difference in