Concealed Carry on College Campuses

RebuttalsMy opponent's beliefsPRO: "If it comes down to the woman having to shoot her attacker, I believe that she has the right to do so in defense of herself and the law would agree with me."I ask my opponent: in what kind of scenario does a man or woman 'have to' shoot his/her attacker? Ultimately, it comes down to individual subjective judgment. Let's take a look at the spiel on rape I presented in round 1. Most cases of confessed rape were not actually cases of rape, but the women who made the claims supporting the 1 in 4 statistics claim otherwise. Consider this: you're making out with a woman and you're getting it on quite nicely. You decide that it's time to hit home base. However, the moment you make your move, the woman pulls out a gun, calls you a rapist, and makes you leave. You decide not to leave, and she shoots you in the head. She had to right? Otherwise he wouldn't leave? Later she can claim that he tried to rape her as is conducive to the false rape statistic. Isn't that just ridiculous?Crimes on college campuses:My opponent declares that his goal with the college campus statistic is to show that violent crimes do happen on college campuses. However, he neglects that the statistic also covers the fact that violent crimes happen everywhere and that they occur less often on college campuses. It is this lessened frequency which shows that prohibitions on concealed carry works. My opponent's argument is this: crimes exist on college campuses and permitting concealed carry will solve that problem. That's quite an assertion. How does my opponent know that permitting concealed carry won't actually increase the rate of crime? Don't college campuses' low crime rate actually prove that not having concealed carry actually decreases the rate of crime? Less guns around means less guns being shot, and statistics clearly corroborate this. College campuses are some of the safest places in the world and is a clear case in which a community with no conealed carry laws have lower crime rates.The under 9000:Let us revisit this statistic of homicide versus justified homicide. Of the about 8300 gun-related homicides in the year 2010, only 200 were considered justified homicides with the other 8000 are considered criminal. My opponent counters by saying that the 230 cases of justified self-defense fire negates the 8000 criminal homicides and justifies concealed gun carry. My opponent then goes on to say that the 8000 criminal homicides were not committed by concealed gun permit owners. Let me this around and ask: how does my opponent know that the 8000 weren't concealed gun permit owners. In 2012, James Eagan Holmes shot and killed 12 people at a theater in Colorado. The firearms he used were legally purchased and possessed.[1]An even better question: how does my opponent know that the 230 justified killers were concealed gun permit owners? If these 230 aren't concealed permit owners, how does my opponent justify using these 230 to justify concealed carry laws? 230 bad guys were put under the dirt, but 8045 innocent people lie with them. The statistic shows that 97.2% (8045/8275) of self defense homicide, permit or not, are going to be criminal.Statistics on Crimes in college:Again, 93% of crimes on college students occur off campus. Most of the cases cited in my opponent's case are cases of offcampus defense, and only a few of them mention concealed carry permit holders.I would like to point out this case in particular:PRO: "University of Southern California students overpowered a man, taking away his firearm and holding him at gunpoint for police. The man had become violent and threatening towards a female at a student party and refused to leave."Consider this: What if this case were reversed? What if the students were the ones threatening the female and refusing to leave and the man was the one with the firearm trying to deter such behavior? In this case, the students' overpowering the man would be a terrible thing. The likelihood of such a thing occurring increases with each gun owner added to the pool of gun owners.I would like to point out the distinction between a student having prevented a crime and a student having prevented a crime on college campuses. Recall that this debate is about concealed carry on college campuses, not off college campuses. I posit that the statistics on violent crime provided by my opponent in this last round would be reduced if guns were banned and not the other way around as my opponent seems to be saying. My opponent has provided no evidence whatsoever that the total rate of crime would be reduced with concealed carry laws. Again, college campuses' being statistically more crime free than almost any other environment in the world clearly shows that not having concealed carry laws is correlated with reduced crime. Again, less guns overall means less gun-related crime. PRO:"While college campuses usually have lower crime rates, they are not crime free."Nowhere in the world is crime free. My opponent seems to be claiming that concealed carry laws would make college campuses completely free of crime. Again, there is no evidence whatsoever that having concealed gun laws would magically remove the existence of all crime. There's no such thing as crime-free. In fact, I posit that concealed guns are the cause of a number of crimes and that not having concealed gun laws lowers crime and not vice verse as evident of the relatively low crime rate on college campuses.SummaryI hope that I have shown that college campuses do not need conceal carry laws and do not need to carry weapons while on campus. While a few cases of gun use may be justified, we have to remember that most are not. I must also point to the fact that this debate pertains specifically to concealed carry on college campuses. I have succinctly shown that college campuses have lower crime rates without concealed carry laws. I believe that is sufficient in negating the resolution."the U.S. has the best-armed civilian population in the world, with an estimated 270 million total guns."[2] The real question is, what portion of the concealed carry population will commit a violent crime? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org...;[2] http://www.theblaze.com...;