Gun Rights in the United States

My opponent states that " someone could break into the gun shop and then go crazy" This is obviously a speculative point with no evidence whatsoever. It is quite a possibility, but obvious this would be more suicide than it is a robbery. This differs from gun shop to gun shop, but it should be a safe assumption that at least some of the employees or customers are armed, especially in a gun shop with an integrated public range. According to a book by Paul Blackman, supported by a Justice Department study [1], % Of Criminals Who Fear Being Shot While Robbing a Home: 74% % of "smart criminals" who try to find out if victim is armed: 81% % of Criminals scared off, shot, wounded, and/or captured by citizen with a gun: 37% % of Criminals running into an armed citizen: 34% % of Criminals who will get a gun when nothing is available: 83% James D. Wright's and Peter Rossi's "Armed and Considered Dangerous" [2] (the excerpt of which I needed to find since I do not own the book) also states some similar numbers, different, yet the numbers are still a fairly large portion. Keep in mind I have capitalized words that differ between the results above and below. % Of Criminals Who Fear Being Shot While Robbing a PERSON: 40% % of Criminals PERSONALLY KNOWN to have been scared off, shot, wounded, and/or captured by citizen with a gun: 62% % of Criminals running into an armed citizen: 37% Where Criminals get their handguns: Stolen from friends or family members: 31% Stolen/bought from black market: 30% Stolen from homes/apartments/etc. : 29% From this data, obviously gun stores are not extreme vectors for criminals to get their guns, and stealing from a gun store is rather unheard of. Obviously, "armed citizens" would be found in gun stores, and the percentage of criminals that decided not to commit a crime would most likely become part of the percentage that fears being shot. "someone could be drunk and then they can get their gun and shoot someone. (That would bad unless your using the gun in self defence. )" I honestly have no doubts that this happens, because sometime, somewhere, it probably does. However, it is plain common sense that someone should not have their gun if they're going to be drunk, as this is incredibly dangerous. According to the CDC in 2007 [3] and GunCite [4], the number of unintentional deaths (assuming it is unintentional if the person is drunk) is around 600. This is a very small number, and it could be even smaller if people were more educated enough about the safety of firearms to NOT do stupid things like that. According to Gary Kleck, Ph. D criminologist at Florida State University, along with his partner, Mark Gertz, has found that over 2.5 million times a year, guns are used defensively. [5] The National Institute of Justice has even suggest this number is even higher at 3.1 million [6] This far outweighs the approximate 38,317 fatalities from combined homicides, suicides, and unintentional deaths that happen from firearms according to do CDC. [7] A study by Harvard University suggest the number is around 34,000 [8] [1] . http://www.readytodefend.com... [2] . http://books.google.com... [3] . http://webappa.cdc.gov... (Please click on Homicide, then Firearms, then set year 2007-2007) [4] . http://www.guncite.com... [5] . http://www.wnd.com... [6] . http://www.ncjrs.gov... [7] . http://wonder.cdc.gov... [8] . http://www.law.harvard.edu... I leave the floor to my opponent.