In the United States, private ownership of handguns ought to be banned.

To my esteemed debate colleagues, casual readers and of course my venerate opponent...I would like to thank anotherwolf for creating this debate. With events involving guns becoming more numerous every year, it is important we discuss weapons and gun control. If I may begin...As the opposition, negative or "con" in this round it is my burden to prove that the resolution is NOT true. Pre-Round Analysis: Please disregard any information presented without sourcable evidence as is holds no strength. "A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..." George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790. It is with this quote from one of the greatest men in American history that I stand in opposition to the resolution: "In the United States, private ownership of handguns ought to be banned". To analyze this resolution I would like to point out that we are ONLY disscussing private ownership of HANDGUNS. Another resolutional analysis is that we are talking about the US alone. Voters please disregard all arguments that have to do with commwealths, states and countries that are not part of or have not been annexed by the United States of America as of 2015. Definitions:Private ownership: Operationally defined as the use or ownership of an object by one person or group of people. Handguns: "Any firearm that can be held and fired with one hand; a revolver or a pistol." By Dictionary.com¹Ought: "Used to express obligation, advisability, natural expectation, or logical consequence." By Meriam-Webster.com²Definitional Analysis: Ought is interchangable with "should" and "should" entails reasons: I should eat the cake because it's my birthday. Therefore mine opponent, the government, affirmative or "pro", must not only uphold his side of the resolution but he must also prove his side and completely wipe away mine analyses. My value for this round is Human Rights. Human rights are defined as the inherent right to Life, Liberty and Property. Keep these in mind as I go into my arguments. Notes: A value is a worldview that should be used to judge the round. For example I am using Human rights because I think that that is what guns protect. Contention 1: Guns Uphold Human Rights:Let us address every one of the human rights individually. Life in correlation to gun control. Let us say someone breaks into your house and runs into your room with a knife. Most likely if you are not trained in martial arts you are probably going to die from punture wounds. However, if you happen to have a gun, you are able to defend yourself. Guns protect the right to life by protecting life itself. When people are disciplined, background checks performed and police enforcement enhanced, guns can protect life.Guns in relation to liberty. If we look back up to our quote by George Washington (Scroll up) we see that he states that a society that values liberty and freedom above all needs to be able to arm and defend itself from potentional home invasion and government tyranny. "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."³ What this sacred ammendment is essentially saying is that it is the right of the citizens of the united states to bear arms to uphold freedom. In fact this year gunsnfreedom.com released an articleS08; that stated how two men had attempted to attack an elderly women in a home invansion. Due to her right to bear arms given to her by the 2nd Amendment she is well to this very day. Finally guns in relation to property, one of the Human rights. Taking away guns is by its very nature is denying human one of their inherent Human rights, property. Guns protect the other two human rights and in and of themselves count as a basic human right, by our definitions above (See Definitions). Guns can protect against robbery: On June 18 gunsnfreedom.com released another article about guns being used to protect property. When a chainsaw-wielding thief broke and entered a San Antonio home, the armed homeowner was able to save is property and his life by defending himself with a firearm. Contention 2: Banning Guns Does Not Promote Human Rights:When you ban weapons or if you make something illegal it immediatly creates a market for that banned product. Because drugs are banned people buy them off the black market and such is one example. If liberals and other politically new idealists succeed at gun control and a handgun ban, you immediatly have the "illegal gun market" created. "...Kates and Mauser looked at and compared data from the U.S. and parts of Europe to show that stricter [gun] laws don’t mean there is less crime."S09;. Essentially what their saying is that in studies from the U.S. gun control does not make crime go down. Banning guns still allows people to invade a home with things like knives and be able to attack and kill and steal property from people who, without guns, have no defense. As you see having guns may have a few incidents, but according to guncite.com in an articleS10; over two million instances of gun related self defense occur per year. All in all banning guns does not help save lives, it does not help people protect their property and taking away guns certainly does not give people more freedom. Keeping guns helps save lives! Keepings handguns free to own with licenses and such allows for freedom and democracy, two of the foundational values on which the US was made on.I will now respond to mine opponent's arguments. Mine opponent stated that handguns are there to protect the owner from danger and this is correct. Mine opponent essentially agreed with my main point of Human Rights, protecting the owner = protectin his/her life, before I have even given my case. Mine opponent then goes on to say that the first reason why people should not be allowed to carry guns is because nobody can tell who is going to kill someone wiht his/her gun. I would like to respond to this by saying that a plethora of gun violences have, in fact, been stopped by background checks at gun purchasing centers. To carry a gun around you need a concealed carry license. To get one of those you have to go through too many background checks and investigation to count and you also have to get months of training. The resolution is talking about private hangun ownership, but my opponent is talking about concealed carry. My opponent has not presented any arguments on personal/private ownership. I urge the judge to disregard all arguments thus made by my opponent becuase they do not link in directly and have not been applied to the resolution directly. Lastly my opponent goes on to state that there is no guarrentee that people will not get shot. I would like response by saying that gun ownership and furthermore concealed carry is made to defend the person carrying the gun, as my opponent stated earlier in his/her opening statement. I believe I have given sufficient evidence to prove that my opponents last point, that to reduce crime guns ought to be banned, has no force. Bibliography:¹[1] American Psychological Association (APA): handgun. (n.d.). Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. Retrieved August 14, 2015, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com... Chicago Manual Style (CMS): handgun. Dictionary.com. Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. http://dictionary.reference.com...(accessed: August 14, 2015). Modern Language Association (MLA): "handgun." Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. 14 Aug. 2015. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com...;. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Dictionary.com, "handgun," in Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. Source location: HarperCollins Publishers. http://dictionary.reference.com.... Available: http://dictionary.reference.com.... Accessed: August 14, 2015. BibTeX Bibliography Style (BibTeX) @article {Dictionary.com2015, title = {Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition}, month = {Aug}, day = {14}, year = {2015}, url = {http://dictionary.reference.com...},²[2] "Ought|Definition of Ought by Merriam-Webster." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster. Web. 14 Aug. 2015.³[3] Fathers, Founding. "Second Amendment." Second Amendment. Web. 14 Aug. 2015. S08;[4] "Two Men Attempt To Rape And Rob Armed Elderly Woman." Guns N Freedom. 12 Aug. 2015. Web. 14 Aug. 2015. + "Man Defends Property, Fatally Shoots Chainsaw Wielding Thief." Guns N Freedom. 18 June 2015. Web. 14 Aug. 2015.S09;[5] "Harvard Gun Study Claims Banning Weapons Doesn't Decrease Violence." Boston Magazine. Web. 14 Aug. 2015.S10;[6] "GunCite-Gun Control-How Often Are Guns Used in Self-Defense?" GunCite-Gun Control-How Often Are Guns Used in Self-Defense? Web. 14 Aug. 2015