Gun laws should remain unchanged despite the recent events in Aurora, Colorado

To my opponent, thank you for clarifying your first point and this was a very well written response. First point: My opponent challenged me to give a "detailed process on how events like this can happen less often." I will address preventing shooting sprees in my third point, but I have a detailed process on how to prevent most of non shooting spree crimes. My opponent stated that "In order to cause this standard to upgrade, we must make stricter gun laws not make an economic recovery plan." Raising the standard of living means that the government needs to cease reckless spending immediately and stop forcing Americans to pay more in taxes, which any halfway decent economist would know that raising taxes actually hurts the economy and the government, not the other way around. When people have less money, the tend to spend less money and instead hoard it, which halts economic growth and causes even more problems. In order to raise the standard of living and prevent kids in the cities to resort to crime in order to survive, we need to bring the troops home from the middle east and stop fighting this pointless war. (I don't want to really get into that entirely different topic, just stay with me) Doing so will save the government tons of money that can be diverted to begin paying down the enormous debt. Doing so allow the government to reduce taxes on Americans, giving them a little more breathing room financially. To really help out America we need to end the Federal Reserve. (Right now Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill is meeting with much support which is a solid start, but not enough). The Federal Reserve has lent more than $16 trillion to foreign and domestic corporations. The problem is that the United States only grosses $15.9 trillion per year. We are living beyond our means. If we end the Federal Reserve this spending ceases. Since 1913 when the Federal Reserve was created by the Congress, the value of the dollar has declined by 95% while factoring inflation because they just print more and more money without anything backing it up, which drives down the value and lessens the buying power of the dollar. Ending the Fed will cause the value of our dollar to rise by 90%, as Dr. Paul has repeatedly stated. When these families are given more buying power because of the end of the Federal Reserve, there won't be a need to take a gun, run down to the convenient store, and rob it for cash or food. http://www.auditthefed.com... Second Point: My opponent stated in his first argument that, "The factor that this murderer had the ability to just walk into the theatre, murder 12 people and injure 50 others like it is nothing ought to say something to the government." You are right, this should say to the government that we need to remove gun free zones. That movie theater in Aurora, Colorado was a gun free zone, which as the name implies, means that nobody except law enforcement are allowed to have firearms in that designated area. We are talking about hundreds of people at this movie theater in the Midwest, a very pro-gun area. What do you think would the chances have been that a citizen(s) armed with a handgun would've stopped that mad man before he inflicted as much carnage as he did? What I'm saying is that if the gun-free zone wasn't established, it is likely that atleast one civilian would've had the power to stop this tragedy in its tracks. You also mentioned that "We as the moral characters we are should see that very tragic event as an example there is a problem with gun laws. I think that one incident does not mean that we have a problem with gun laws. Now, if there were 2-3 sprees per year or per month as you suggested, then yes, something clearly is not working. But the last shooting spree that I was able to research of this magnitude occurred back in April of 2009, nearly 3.5 years ago in Binhamton, New York where Jiverly Antares Wong, 41, killed 13 and injured 4. http://www.usatoday.com... Third Point: My opponent challenged me to give a "detailed process on how events like this can happen less often." Well the truth is that, you don't need a complicated plan to prevent a shooting spree. Keep the current laws, except for the gun free zones. It's simple. Let the people carry their firearms wherever they go. If people were allowed to have their firearms in that movie theater, Holmes would've been dead in minutes, instead of walking around the theater like he has all day hosing down unarmed civilians with lead. For my closing argument, all I will say that we shouldn't overreact to an event that doesn't occur often. Before we rush to Capitol Hill to start drafting tighter gun laws that will do little to help, let's just take a step back and examine what happened. James Holmes passed his background check because he was healthy. He only recently became ill. That is not a failure in the system that is currently in place it is something that is out of our hands and something that laws cannot prevent. Our current system sufficiently prevents ex-cons and the mentally sick from purchasing firearms. While this was tragic, it's just one of those things that was unpredictable and uncontrollable. I'd like to thank my opponent for giving me the opportunity to debate for the first time. I had a lot of fun exchanging views and ideas with you and I hope we can do it again in the future. You had a lot of good points and knowledge to back your ideas. To all of the victims and their families in Aurora, Colorado, you are in my thoughts and I hope that all of you are able to recover from this senseless tragedy. To those who lost loved ones, I send my deepest condolences for your loss, as I cannot imagine what you are going through. I hope that you can soon turn the page and be able to go back to a sense of normal eventually.