The second amendment should be repealed

I am excited for this round and I fully believe we are discussing an important issue for our world today. I will start out with brief background, then move to my arguments as to why the second amendment should be repealed. The second amendment was passed in our bill of rights. The era that wrought this amendment was far different from our world today. America is bolstered by its ability to adapt, and currently we are at another crossroad. We must recognize that we are being devastated by a policy that has long ago reached a point of obsolescence. The second amendment was created in the era of muskets. These arms could fire one to two rounds per minute, and it took nearly two centuries for the first semi automatic weapon to be designed in Germany in 1885. (1) This outdated allowance for the common man to have weapons of war must be abolished. My first argumentation will be the harms of guns in our world today. Guns are ravaging America. Guns are threatening our schools, with 2015 having 64 school shootings, 65 in 2017, and 17 in just two months of 2018. Yet, it seems the issue is far larger. There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015 alone. (3) When we compare ourselves to the rest of the world, we see a shocking truth, we are the only industrialized nation to have this issue. When compared to the United Kingdom, an American is 51 times more likely to be killed by gunfire. (4) We also see that the United States ranks above Jordan, Yemen, Palestine, Turkey, and Iran, and even Syria with gun deaths per 100,000 people. (5) We see that the United States is being decimated by our ownership of guns, and there must be solvency. My proposed solvency would be the repeal of the second amendment. This, in accordance with law, would require a constitutional amendment, therefore requiring approval from both the state and federal governments. The funding would be through normal means, though there is no firm cost. Due to logical restrictions, the government would be unable to do what our president has said, and just "take the guns," but the most logical, practical, and stable solution comes in two steps. First, an immediate ban on the sale of firearms to anyone but the government. This allows for the number of guns to begin to decrease instead of the increase we have seen in the past. The second step is a slow phasing out. This would allow a smooth transition over years to cope with the massive political and social change. We can look to Australia"s buyback program. (6) This delayed approach allows for the addressing of this issue in a manner that is far more palatable to those who would advocate for guns, and also allows for the issue to be fully addressed. Though this policy may seem radical, a half measure would fail us dramatically. We must fully address the issue. After the passage of this plan we will be able to garner solvency for these crimes. We can look again to Australia, which saw their number of gun deaths decrease by 74% post the passage of their incredibly restrictive gun programs. (7) Furthermore, we can look to the number of mass shootings that happened in Australia, which dropped to zero. (8) Next, we can look to Japan, where restrictive laws make the ownership of guns near inexistant. Codified in Japanese law is the following phrase: "no person shall possess a firearm or firearms or a sword or swords. " This law, passed in 1946, has allowed Japan to escape the terrors of gun violence Americans face today. Japan, A nation of 127 million people, only sees on average 10 gun deaths per year. The United States nearly 3000 times this. In Japan, only six gunshots were fired by police in entire year of 2015. (10) Officers in America must fear that the individual they are confronting is armed, and they see their lives in danger. In Japan, police can safely assume that the individual they are apprehending does not possess a firearm, allowing more leniency. We must act if we truly want to save lives in America. We need to understand that these weapons, while they may make us feel safer, cause nothing but more harm to all of us. We must remove these tools of death from our homes, our hands, and our culture. We must repeal the second amendment. For the Negation to win this round, they will have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the second amendment garners unique benefits for the United States, or that the passage of the plan will cause significant harms. In short, upon the risk of saving lives, I strongly urge a vote for the affirmation today.