In the United States, private ownership of handguns ought to be banned.

Burdens: I do not have a changed status quo. I am just pointing out that individualism is bad. Secondly, the BoP is shared. My burden of proof is not taken more than yours. Thus, you have broken a rule, thus I win today's debate. Let's go to her value She values justice. I have 2 main responses. 1.She defines justice as each given her due. Thus, she is focusing on the common good of the people, because everyone is due the right to live in a peaceful society, thus her value supports my case. 2. Each are giving their due to live in a peaceful society, as defined: Bittman,mark,"What is the purpose of society",2015 "Isn't everyone owed a society that works toward guaranteeing the well-being of its citizens? Shouldn"t we prioritize avoiding self-destruction?" So if everyone is given their 'due,' they are prioritizing the well-being of society's citizens, which the aff is promoting towards common good. Let's now go to her value of minimizing arbitrary actions. I have 2 main responses to this. 1. We can never know what is an arbitrary action because justification relies on many things. Nothing has intrinsic value. Pollock 75 http://johnpollock.us... "To justify a belief one must appeal to a further belief. This means beliefs can be [held] without being able to justify them for each justified belief there is an infinite regress of justification. On this theory there is no rock bottom of justification. Justification just meanders in and out through our network of beliefs, stopping nowhere." Thus she is not exactly minimizing arbitrary action because we can never really justify anything. We can never justify if an action is true or not. 2. She agrees with me that there are no ways to justify. So how is she following her criterion of minimizing arbitrary action? How is not banning guns from private ownership not an arbitrary action? So far, I have proven that banning guns from private ownership is NOT an arbitrary action because gun rights are linked to individualism, which is harming the environment, leading to the next ecological crunch, thus harming society, so banning guns from private ownership is not an arbitrary action. Let's move down to her sole contention: The affirmative is arbitrary in nature, devoid of some deeper "truth" - any evidence that they claim to hold as important can be interpreted as the exact opposite of what they claim. I have some responses to this. 1. Just because she proves that everything is not true, does that mean my claims fall? Ok. Then what about her claims? She says that what we find within the true and FALSE(her side) are wrong because there are no lines, and it is just our social lens. 2. How is proving anything is arbitrary is gaining her advantage? According to her, owning guns could be arbitrary for all we know, thus her contention is gaining me some offense. 3. Sources blur the line. Ok. Then your sources might blur the line because they might blur the lines between the true and false. 4. She says that the simulation is at play when everything is occur. Ok. Then the simulation is at her play when she even lists these events. The facts she presents no longer have a 'specific trajectory.' Let's add some points to my case. 1. Capitalism(private ownership) is bad. Jerry Z. Muller, Capitalism and Inequality, 2013 "Inequality is indeed increasing almost everywhere in the capitalist world.Inequality is an inevitable product of capitalist activity, and expanding equality of opportunity only increases it -- because some individuals and communities are simply better able than others to exploit the opportunities for development and advancement that capitalism affords. Despite what many on the right think, however, this is a problem for everybody, not just those who are doing poorly or those who are ideologically committed to egalitarianism -- because if left unaddressed, rising inequality and economic insecurity can erode social order and generate a populist backlash against the capitalist system at large." Analysis: Capitalism, where property is privately owned, is seen by my evidence as inequal, allowing the rich to only benefit and the rest to fall, and also created a huge poverty difference and affecting the society as a negative impact. Thus, we cannot use private ownership, and my value of social justice does this because it promotes the common good, and with my standard of infinite regression we can achieve this. Let's make another link. Intosh, Mac. "Capitalism And Genocide." Internationalist Perspective. January 03, 2000. Web. December 07, 2015. "Mass death, and genocide, the deliberate and systematic extermination of whole groups of human beings, have become an integral part of the social landscape of capitalism in its phase of decadence. Auschwitz, Kolyma, and Hiroshima are where human beings have been subjected to forms of industrialized mass death. The ethnic cleansing which has been unleashed in Bosnia and Kosovo, the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the mass death to which Chechnya has been subjected, the prospect for a nuclear war on the Indian sub-continent, are so many examples of the future which awaits the human species as the capitalist mode of production enters a new millennium." Analysis: Capitalism, where handguns are privately owned, is seen by my evidence as very destructive and leads to genocide, mass killings, and wars. Thus capitalism cannot be allowed in today"s society. My standard achieves this because if we socially use social knowledge to kick out capitalism to achieve the common good by my value of social justice. The cost is too expensive Ludwig, Jens. "The Costs Of Gun Violence Against Children." May 08, 2012. "(T)he national costs of gun violence are roughly $100 billion per year, with $15 billion or more attributable to gun violence against youth. An important conclusion, then, is that the costs of gun violence are far larger than the public health community"s traditional COI approach would suggest, and that these costs affect everyone in America. But another important conclusion is that while the costs of gun violence"or equivalently, the benefits of reducing gun violence"are large, they are not infinite." Analysis: This evidence shows that handguns cause tremendous violence in the country, and cost money. This is not good for the society because we will need this money elsewhere to benefit the people in need in our society to benefit everyone.Thus, we should ban these handguns from private ownership. Handguns promote sexism Isabel Evans,The Sly, Sexist Tactics of the American Gun Industry ,2014 "But what really bothers me is the narrative that guns "empower women." The website for NRA Women claims to tell "stories of empowered women like you." Pistol Packing Ladies, a female only shooting club offering NRA classes, has the inspiring slogan "empowering women one round at a time." And we even have the word of Greg Gutfield of FOX News that "guns do more for female empowerment than modern feminism." I don"t buy this bromide. Telling a woman that she needs to have a pink gun to have power belies real, positive female empowerment. Women can feel powerful and strong on their own, thank you Greg. And also, there"s something inherently troubling in the connection here between power and violence. Even if gun clubs and ranges say it"s all fun and games and sports, guns are weapons that can also kill (surprise!). So does a woman need to embrace violence in order to feel power? " Analysis: Women are shown to have an obligation of "Sexism to own a handgun to get 'empowered'" This is very sexist, and offends women, thus leading to violence. Guns lead to suicide Miller, Matthew. "Guns And Suicide In The United States." 2008. The empirical evidence linking suicide risk in the United States to the presence of firearms in the home is compelling.3 There are at least a dozen U.S. case"control studies in the peer-reviewed literature, all of which have found that a gun in the home is associated with an increased risk of suicide. The increase in risk is large, typically 2 to 10 times that in homes without guns, depending on the sample population (e.g., adolescents vs. older adults) and on the way in which the firearms were stored. The association between guns in the home and the risk of suicide is due entirely to a large increase in the risk of suicide by firearm that is not counterbalanced by a reduced risk of nonfirearm suicide. Moreover, the increased risk of suicide is not explained by increased psychopathologic characteristics, suicidal ideation, or suicide attempts among members of gun-owning households. Analysis: Handguns lead to more suicide rates. Thus we need them banned to totally decrease. Link: Suicide HURTS the economy CDC 2008 "Suicide costs society over $44.6 billion a year in combined medical and work loss costs. The average suicide costs $1,164,499." Anaylsis: This costs 1 billion dollars! We could use this money elsewhere. For these reasons and many more, I strongly urge a pro ballot. `TheResistance