To Ensure A Safe School Environment, Licensed And Trained Teachers Ought To Carry Handguns

Look, I don't think you really get "debate." Or this resolution. I will use my own videos to rebut to yours, though, as I figure that might be fun. To the readers: Con dropped all of my contentions and did not make a single coherent argument of his own. Your vote should go Pro for that reason alone, if not for Con's numerous grammar errors and my citing of legitimate sources. Just for fun, though I will caounter Con's video with a few of my own http://www.breitbart.com......... (the study can be accessed by clicking the phrase "CPRC showed")dunno how to get the PDF URL. Quotes The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create...."-- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819. "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."-- Thomas Jefferson "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good"-- George Washington "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."-- Mahatma Gandhi "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient... The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."-- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue."-- Barry Goldwater "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787 "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."-- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861 "One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms."-- Constitutional scholar Joseph Story, 1840 "The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being..."-- J.G.A. Pocock, describing the beliefs of the founders of the U.S. Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest.-- From the Declaration of the Continental Congress, July 1775. "As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives [only] moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion to your walks."-- Thomas Jefferson, writing to his teenaged nephew. No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.-- 16 Am. Jur. Sec. 177 late 2d, Sec 256 "The state calls its own violence `law', but that of the individual `crime'"-- Max Stirner "Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!' in a crowded theater."-- Peter Venetoklis ...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents."-- Don B. Kates, writing on statistical patterns in gun crime "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."-- John F. Kennedy The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."-- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."-- George Washington, in a speech of January 7, 1790 "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms."-- Senator Richard Henry Lee, 1788, on "militia" in the 2nd Amendment "...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." [...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.]-- (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD), False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.-- Cesare Beccaria, as quoted by Thomas Jefferson's Commonplace book No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.-- "Political Disquisitions", a British republican tract of 1774-1775 The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, 1787 & what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that his people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. William S. Smith, 1787 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 5 1788 Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence be the *real* object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 9 1788 Quotes from: http://www.catb.org...