The topic I chose to focus my writing project three on, whether or not allowing concealed handguns on Texas campuses of higher education, does in fact save lives. When they say higher education, they mean like a college campus, or a community college, not a high school or a junior high, or even an elementary. There have been so many incidents when a person that was carrying a concealed handgun could have saved another human being from a reckless person holding a gun. But they could not just whip it out because they would have gotten prosecuted. Prosecuted for trying to be a good Samaritan or some sort, and save someone. Why would someone else go out of their way to help another person, if it is in fact illegal. John R. Lott wrote a book about the advantages of allowing concealed handguns, and how much it would help the community if we had more than just policemen around to come to the rescue. The Texas A&M campus itself only has about 70 officers throughout the campus. That's 70 officers that have to protect the lives of every single student and faculty member on our campus that stretches over 5,500 acres with over 50,000 students. The student to officer ratio would be 714:1, which does not make me feel safe at all. I'm not saying that this campus is not safe, but if something were to occur, I don't see how I can guarantee that an officer will be around my vasinity at the time. But there could definitely be a student around, that just so happened to be carrying a gun around. But will he help me and bust that thing out? More than likely, no, because he will then be risking his own life and a sentence in jail. Guns are not the enemy, just like food is not the enemy, and video games are not the enemy. You put those things in the wrong hands, and that makes THEM the enemy. Guns do not kill people. People kill people. It is as simple as that