New Member Tournament: Gun Rights Debate

Rebuttal “Criminals obtain guns easily” Based on the source CON has given to support this claim (page 4/5), about the report of firearms trafficked by straw purchasing, it only stated 46.3% of 709 investigations, that’s about 328 investigations of criminals with guns, but that’s like 0.0001% of the US population, which is quite small and it’s insufficient to certainly assume that half of the (10 million? ) criminals in the US are obtaining guns via this activity, so this source is inaccurate since there are criminals who can obtain guns via any kind of illegal way aside from straw purchasing (breaking into a gun shop, and, well, basically stealing). With gun control being enforced or not, these illegal gun-obtaining activities will still happen, as you said, it’s a simple process and almost impossible to catch the criminals behind it, criminals can get guns regardless of strict gun control laws. “Increased domestic violence” A small percentage of the victim’s perpetrator are the ones who live with them, the rest are people known to the victim whom we can assume lives in another place, that’s the same to the strangers also living away, a burglar is as likely to find a firearm as an acquaintance can when attempting to break in his/her victim’s home and finding a gun. The only thing we can do here is to keep your gun away in a safe place. “Self Defense/Police Protection” But the RTC is more useful than waiting 5 minutes for some cop to come, an 8-year-old sees 2 men raping and assaulting his mom one night, his dad isn’t there, he phones 911, but he’s a child and he has no idea what to say, what are the possibilities that the operator will believe him? Let’s say, sure, yah, but the likelihood is, that the operator is probably going to stall him, ask him questions and verify if he’s telling the truth or not since they do not want false alarms or some kid pulling a prank, the process would take a few minutes of questions and a few minutes of duration for the patrol car to come to the victim’s house, that is surely a disadvantage to society. Even if it is 1 minute of waiting for the police, can you survive 60 seconds of pain and suffering when you are being raped or assaulted that can possibly kill you instantly? I think not, with guns near your reach, you can stop the perpetrator from taking your life. “Sports” My main point of this argument is that shooting sports have an advantage rather than a disadvantage on RTC. This argument somewhat relates to the self defense benefit as it trains the gun user to shoot with caution, and as I previously said, with the increases of training programs and gun ed, the risks can certainly diminish, regardless of the statistics. Closing I admit this isn’t the best arguments I can make, but it’s worth a shot, and since I haven’t finished rebutting all arguments, all I want to point out is that statistical evidence can be inaccurate and biased, we cannot base them on one statistic only, just google stats relating to gun rights, gun control, gun violence, etc. , then you’ll see loads of references supporting one side, I did state some arguments based on statistics, it’s just to add more effect to what I’m arguing, but we need to assume that guns do save lives, people kill, guns don’t. It all depends on the person using it. And as I quote my opponent’s source on guns increasing assault: “successful defensive gun uses occur each year, the probability of success may be low for civilian gun users in urban areas. Such users should reconsider their possession of guns or, at least, understand that regular possession necessitates careful safety countermeasures. ” We must remember that, regardless of statistics, depriving guns away from the public doesn’t lessen the criminals. If an armed assailant has knowledge of his victim being unarmed, that is already a disadvantage on not having the RTC, guns are everywhere, and without the individual RTC, people are unprotected with the risk of criminals carrying a firearm while having knowledge of their defenseless victims. I thank F-16 for the last time for this debate.