Gun control works

I apologize to my opponent for the sloppy reading and misunderstanding of his resolution. It shouldn't distract too much because I did manage to stay on topic. The Genetic FallacyMy opponent dismisses some of my sources because they come from right wing think tanks or gun policy experts that happen to be pro gun. My opponent is using what's known as the genetic fallacy. . http://www.nizkor.org... He can't attack the numbers or data collection, because they're true. So he does the next best thing and says what people using the genetic fallacy always do, he asks us to disregard the evidence because it was discovered by people with a different political ideology than him. He never really tells us how their information is wrong, but only assumes they are without checking their citations. Now let's examine my opponent's contentions 1 by 1 and see if any of them hold up. C1) There are less mass murders as a result of gun lawsIn Round 2 I showed this wasn't a result of strict gun laws by comparing New Zealand's (the best, most comparable country) rate of mass murders to Australia's. My opponent, simply ignored my argument. So I undoubtedly destroy his first contention. C2)Gun Buybacks workThey don't work at all. I can use my opponents own citations to show that. On page 6 of my opponents citation it shows that the number of homes with guns was the same before the Buybacks as after, about 700,000. . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...People basically sold their guns to the government and replace them with new ones, as my opponents source points out. I'd advise my opponent to read his own sources. The downward trends pointed out by my opponent were going to happen with or without a gun Buyback program. C3) Gun Laws are directly responsible for the reduction of crime/gun deathsAs I explained my opponent has disregarded my sources using the genetic fallacy, but my sources do prove this contention wrong, not that They need to. Since he hasn't brought forth enough evidence of his own. If you look at the sources he mentioned including his last one I used, you can see how they assumed gun laws lead to a reduction in crime. Since the 80s the crime rate has been decreasing by about 3% a year, and at some point after the gun laws it jumped to a decrease in 6% a year. The problem is that you can't attribute the decrease to gun laws. You see similar trends in New Zealand and America as my sources have pointed out. The increase to 6% happened at similar dates. There are likely a bunch of contributing factors to this decrease, and none can be linked back to gun control, because places that didn't increase it much had the same stats. My guess and many others agree, is that advancing technologies contributed to this decrease in crime. . http://www.publicengines.com... I've provided studies that have shown suicide rates to be decreasing at the same rates as normal, probably as a result of improved mental health techniques and diagnosis. I've shown that if gun suicides went down hangings went up. They weren't at the same exact rate, but that's probably because of the many options available to kill one's self. Let's not forget, that suicides aren't always reported as such. If a person is suicidal, but are cowards. They may start engaging in extremely risky behavior with a high chance of killing them. These deaths will, be classified as accidents. Conclusion Upon further analysis of my opponent's stats, you can see no connection between increased gun laws and a reduction in crimes. I've offered rebuttals for everything that he's provided. However my statistics showing an increased amount of rapes by 30% increased robberies by 6% and increased violent crimes by 40%, have been ignored. His rebuttal involving a genetic fallacy, shouldn't be counted. When you take away a woman or an elderly man's gun you leave them as easy marks, for thugs. My stats confirm this. Remember Pro has the bulk of the BOP here, and none of his points stand while mine have went virtually unaddressed other than in the form of a dismissive logical fallacy.