Gary Johnson is the best presidential candiate for Nov 2016.

I'll start with rebuttals and move towards counter-arguments and alternative candidates. Rebuttals and Counter ArgumentsMy opponent starts his argument with Johnson's support for the separation of church and state. The separation of church and state is one of the most fundamental pieces of contemporary politics, today. There is no specialty to Johnson in his argument other than being religiously competent. Hillary Clinton, for one, has also advocated strongly for the separation of church and state [1]. My opponent moves onto drugs, with the true statements of the relative safety of the use of cannabis and the percentage of drug related crimes, roughly at 46% in the US [2], so thank you for those statistics although you didn't mention the stance of Gary Johnson on drugs. Hillary Clinton, to help with the statistics you mentioned, also advocates for loosening of federal marijuana laws to help impact the criminal rate against possession of marijuana [3]. She also supports medical marijuana which has factual benefits to health [4]. Hopefully, one day she'll also legalize recreational marijuana, she just might be taking federal increments. The next argument of my opponent quotes the stance of Gary Johnson on immigration. Hillary Clinton also advocates against a wall and a more relaxed immigration system to help more legal immigrants enter the country safely [5]. She has advocated for immigration reform, leaning towards more open borders towards immigrants while still diverting a significant amount of resources to background checks in order to ensure national security (Refer to Source 5). Hillary Clinton As A Better CandidateI won't be putting much effort into this considering neither has my opponent, although one stance where Hillary Clinton completely trumps Johnson would be on gun control. Johnson has made the statement that gun control laws are ineffective and advocates against them [6] which is a slap in the face to the proven studies of firearms and causality and correlation within a national level. In reality, considering the United States has one of the most permissive gun laws in the world and the most amount of guns per capita [7], it is no surprise that they also lead the world in mass shootings by about a third of the world [8]. There has also been independent investigations by renowned scientific journals proving the causation of mass shootings through lax gun control laws [9], something Johnson refuses to believe. Hillary Clinton recognizes the impact of firearms in the United States, and the permissive gun laws the country has, and she has made determined promises in her campaign, unchanging, that she'll advocate for much stronger background checks, diverting far more resources into them, along with expansion and possible buybacks for gun owners who no longer meet the new criteria [10]. Sources[1] . http://www.patheos.com...[2] . https://www.bop.gov...[3] . https://www.google.com...[4] . http://www.huffingtonpost.com...[5] . https://en.wikipedia.org...[6] . https://www.hillaryclinton.com...[7] . http://www.ontheissues.org...[8] . https://en.wikipedia.org...[9] . http://www.cnn.com...[10] . http://www.sciencealert.com...