Gun Range In Schools Research Paper

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Under strict persuasions, rules, requirements, and qualifications the state of South Carolina allows the usage of buying guns from a strictly monitored gun range. South Carolina residents have the right to keep and bear arms, to protect their loved ones, families, and friends (“South Carolina Gun Laws”). The possession of a gun can help ensure the safety within a household against outside predators. Handling a lethal weapon in a life-threatening situation is dangerous if the individual does not have sufficient practice of how to appropriately hold or fire a gun. Individuals attend a local gun range to understand how to properly handle, control, and legally possess a gun. It is acceptable for towns to allow the construction of gun ranges in …show more content…
Parents concerned for the safety of their children because of the distance between the school and the range. Because of previous school shootings, the parents believe that a gun range so close to a school gives people better access to replicate the re-occurrence of a school shooting (Pellom). I understand the concern about the distance between the school and the range; however, there is no definite risk that the gun range negatively affects the elementary school. The distance is too far to be a danger and security strictly monitors the gun range along with regulations and qualifications that an individual must undergo to purchase a gun. The gun range is in an appropriate location and does not create a problem for the elementary …show more content…
Who’s going to want to live in a neighborhood where just down the road there’s a shooting range?” Koch said. “Lancaster County has so many rural areas, why do they need to pick an area that is densely populated with neighborhoods, businesses and schools?” “It’s just a bad decision; and we were not informed,” she said. “Planning and consideration should have been made for the nearby neighborhood (Murphy).
The real concern is why the elementary school built next to the gun range. Lancaster County has no regulation on how far a shooting range can be from a school and the owner understands the residents’ concerns however, he choose the location four years ago. The owner states:
“There’s really nothing the county can do because it’s an acceptable business in that particular zoning classification, the group (of residents), if they wanted to take it to court, could probably do that and hold it up for a while.” “But my feeling is that the court would probably come down on the side of the property owner (the range) since South Carolinas law pretty much always points strongly to the rights of property owners,” he said. “And this is a case with an approved use, and the neighbors who are right next to the business haven’t