Anival's blog, Cut, Cut, Snip, Snip, is about the budget cuts and how they are affecting us as ACC students. Anival does a great job informing the reader about what exactly is going on in the legislature, showing us exactly how it is already influincing tuition cost for the students, and then sharing his feelings on the need to step up as a community and stop the legislature from cutting educational funding.
Anival is right. We do need to find a way to get money from somewhere else. A higher education is now necessary to get a good job, or almost any job for that matter. By charging students more and cutting the amount of money in grants and scholarships, the legislature is making it impossible for lots of people to get a higher education and get a good job. There has to be a better way to fix the budget deficit than cutting into the field of education. Education is probably one of the most important things we can offer young people today to ensure a better future for all of us.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Guns=Bad News Bears
Fact: Guns are dangerous.
Fact: Texas Legislature is trying to pass a bill that would allow licensed individuals to carry guns on university campuses.
The people who are in favor say that they want this bill passed so people can feel safe, especially with the shootings that happened at Virginia Tech in 2007 and even here at UT last year. While I can understand that some people would feel safer carrying a gun, I wouldn't, whether I was or wasn't carrying a weapon. I can't imagine that I'm the only one who feels this way.
In the Yahoo article Texas poised to pass bill allowing guns on campus several people gave their opinions on guns being allowed on college campuses. Collin Goddard is the assistant director of federal legislation for the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence, he was also a student at Virginia Tech during the mass shooting. He was shot four times and believes that having someone else with a gun in the classroom that day wouldn't have changed the outcome of the situation.
The article goes on to say, "Opponents of campus gun rights say students and faculty would live in fear of their classmates and colleagues, not knowing who might pull a gun over a poor grade, a broken romance or a drunken fraternity argument." And it is reasons like this that I think that guns shouldn't be allowed. If guns are allowed on campuses I think that there will be a much greater risk of people getting upset and acting irrationally, and if that irrational person has a gun on them, there is no telling what could happen
I don't think this piece of legislation should be passed, I think more people would fear the person sitting next to them, not feel protected by them, I know I would.
Fact: Texas Legislature is trying to pass a bill that would allow licensed individuals to carry guns on university campuses.
The people who are in favor say that they want this bill passed so people can feel safe, especially with the shootings that happened at Virginia Tech in 2007 and even here at UT last year. While I can understand that some people would feel safer carrying a gun, I wouldn't, whether I was or wasn't carrying a weapon. I can't imagine that I'm the only one who feels this way.
In the Yahoo article Texas poised to pass bill allowing guns on campus several people gave their opinions on guns being allowed on college campuses. Collin Goddard is the assistant director of federal legislation for the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence, he was also a student at Virginia Tech during the mass shooting. He was shot four times and believes that having someone else with a gun in the classroom that day wouldn't have changed the outcome of the situation.
The article goes on to say, "Opponents of campus gun rights say students and faculty would live in fear of their classmates and colleagues, not knowing who might pull a gun over a poor grade, a broken romance or a drunken fraternity argument." And it is reasons like this that I think that guns shouldn't be allowed. If guns are allowed on campuses I think that there will be a much greater risk of people getting upset and acting irrationally, and if that irrational person has a gun on them, there is no telling what could happen
I don't think this piece of legislation should be passed, I think more people would fear the person sitting next to them, not feel protected by them, I know I would.
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