Gun control lowers crime

I start my round with rebutting my opponent's arguments. I agree with my opponent on the fact that direct comparison without considering sociological considerations sheds little light on the matter, still the reason of my insistence on comparing USA and Canada is disregarding the minute differences that separate the two nations, such as Canadian more natural tendency towards European socialism rather than American self centered capitalism, in essence the two nations are quite similar. This being suggested one might assume that a simple extrapolation of the census offered in. http://news.nationalpost.com...by balancing the populations with a mere 1 to 10 ratio one would reach a strong comparison between the firearms related crimes in the two countries. That still shows a substantial surplus of Gun related crimes in US in comparison to Canada. My opponent maintains that less strict control in gun ownership results in smaller rate of petty crimes. May be so. Since on a Canadian street I am not allowed to carry a Gun with me, a pick pocket may feel safer, robbing my pocket than in US. But that is small price that we have to pay in exchange for the ease of mind that we enjoy on our streets. In order not to confuse my statement with personal etiquette I again refer the audience to the census I've offered: . http://news.nationalpost.com...Now under the line "Homicide by firearm per 100.000 citizens. What my opponent fails to see is that if I carry a gun in my pocket, so can the pick pocket, or the burglar, or the car thief, thus the above census. It would have a good world if only the law abiding citizens had access to the guns. It is not however the case. So better it is that except for an elected body of law enforcement, none else does. " In the words before that, it shows robbers in the US are deterred by people in the home, likely because people can shoot back, whereas in Canada there is no such deterrent"Wrong, whoever produced this data failed to see that in Canada as well as US it is possible that one provides his household with a means of protection, that is a handgun. Only unlike US in Canada one has to go in the steps that I mentioned in the first round that effectively prevents a criminal or a mentally unstable person from acquiring firearms. "Canadian crime rates have remained fairly stable before and after their gun laws were passed,"The reference to the above sentence promptly refused to see the point that even before the introduction of the gun registry laws, Canadians were never gun fanatics such as US are or have been. The law was rectified rather as a future measure than to address a problem. No wonder that the crime rate did not show a sharp change, since the law was not there to address an immediate problem. Exception of course being the province of Quebec, however there is a consensus among Canadians and Quebeckers alike, there is a sociological wedge between Quebec and rest of Canada. However in the troublesome province of Quebec alone that had in times resembled the very encarnation of wild wild west, with incidents such as polytechnique massacare or octoboer crisis and PLQ attacks, ever since the introduction of the gun laws, there hasn't been a single major gun related incidence such as mentioned. The problem with my opponent's argument on top of all is that he puts the same weight on petty crimes and the major crimes alike. In his argument, homicide as a crime, whether it's opening fire in a crowd of teenagers sitting in a cinema, or opening fire in the middle of an elementary school filled with helpless kids, bears the same meaning as a homeless man breaking into one's backdoor to get some food from the fridge or some cache from one's pocket. I maintain the previous examples, pointing out again that Gun control is not there to prevent you from protecting your household, it is there to lower the gun related crimes. Based on the above refutes and my original case, I maintain that Gun control by lowering the number of serious first hand gun related crimes, whether it being, homicide, massacare. .. and the second hand gun related crimes such as Armed rubbery, gang crimes, etc. Lowers the crime rate. As the conclusion I would like to refer the audience to the following census:. http://www.nationmaster.com...to make a comparison between the rate of crimes in different countries and make their own conclusion about the correct stand.