We should ban most (if not all guns) in America/ ROTW

Thank you for sustaining the debate, I appreciate you are busy and I hope the three day interval I supply between rounds will be enough. In terms of your argument, a lot of it is unsubstantiated and circular, because the studies you mentioned are not sourced, I am going to completely dismiss them. Also for your clarification, ROTW is Rest of the World, however I apologize for it is a bad acronym and I did not state its meaning originally. Now I shall try address your points as best I can. 1.) I do believe that people should be able to defend themselves, this can be done in a variety of ways. It can be done using your hands, a weapon or the shotgun/hunting rifle that I believe should stay legal. Saying that however, the last thing a person should be doing is trying to defend themselves by lowering their moral views and essence of a human being to nothing more than a dirty animal. This happens when people fight fire with fire. A person should run, give up their possessions or seek assistance rather than fight the perpetrators on their own terms. Otherwise they put their lives at risk or destroy the life of criminals. Although they are criminals, they are still human and don't simply sacrifice the right to life when they enter somebody's house to commit burglary for example. If civilians own handguns. criminals wont think to kill them. These people obtaining guns of the black market are organised and efficient, they are going to be able to eliminate you easily if you pose any threat. The best thing you can do is remain morally intact and not starting a firefight. Like I said, most criminals aren't out their to commit mass killings, most might be out to mug you, steal your TV etc. 2.) Natural law refers to the laws of the ancient Greeks, that we follow Gods rules and the divine kings and that this supersedes man made law. But nowhere in the bible would it condone violence or defending yourself. So it would be morally bankrupt of you to disrespect the original moral laws and kill people with guns, even if they are breaking the law. "Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written[1], "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." Also, Matthew said "an eye of an eye, a tooth for a tooth" but Jesus said if "somebody was to hit your left cheek, you offer him your right". And the constitution can indeed become outdated, which is why people not just myself disagree with how dysfunctional it is. There are still laws in the English unwritten constitution that condone the killing of a Scotsman in York with a longbow. Obviously this has been revoked for it is silly and no longer serves any purpose. The problem is, people are clinging onto the tradition for the Constitution of their country, when the people and goodness of society are screaming out for it to be amended in order to evolve with the rest of civilization. By condoning the use of guns to conduct welfare, your basically admitting your morals and ethics are similar to that of Nigeria or Afghanistan. 3.) Guns do kill people. Without the guns people die on a much less scale, if people were to use swords, the amount of deaths would drop drastically. the fact is guns place too much power in somebody's hand. A simple pull of a trigger of an AR15 and 15-20 people's lives are gone forever. You can't trust criminals or people, so by removing the thing they are using, you stop the situation. Also like I said, thorough background checks are not going to do much in terms of stopping an "Adam Lanza" just as your police force can't stop the black market. [1] http://www.openbible.info...