Darius+Aldamuy+persuasive+essay (+GUNS+)

Darius Aldamuy March 30, 2012 College Bound

**//__Should Non-Police Officers Be Able To Carry Guns__//**

I think non-police officers should not carry guns because Adults does not all ways use guns for protection. Sometimes adults show off with a fire arm and forget to put the fire arm on safety lock, the gun could go off by accident and an innocent life would be lost for nothing. Adults who carry fire arms are are most likely adequately trained. Some states do not require any hands on training be requiring an concealed carry permit. Carrying concealed guns increases the risk of suicide because one third to our fifths of all suicides attemps are impulsive and carrying a handgun gives individuals the means to act on their impulses.

People who are not Police Officers can sometimes be careless also. Responsible adults can still be a threat to public safety if they are armed with a Fire Arm. between 1996 and 2000 the violence policy center found that concealed handgun permit holders in Texas were aressted for weapon related offenses at a rate 81% higher than the general Texas population. [|Information Website]

Carrying a Fire Arm can increase the chance of suicides. According to the New England Journal of Medicine 53% of all suicides include a fire arm. This is important because if only police officers carried Fire Arms the suicide attempts would drop.