Series 1 Episode 5 : *RETAKE* Severe Gun Control is good for Society.

'I agree with the fact on how lots of guns do my necessarily mean lots of shootings however, with the list that I have given with school shootings in U.S, in the future, restriction the use of firearms as a weapon choice, means less violence involving shootings. ' I have shown in the previous Round how other countries that don't have severe gun control (Israel and Switzerland) don't have a lot of mass shootings and have low murder rates which shows us that there is no evidence proving that there is so many gun shootings in the US due to the fact that guns are not severely controlled, I would like to mention that the Columbine High School massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org...) and such are not deficiencies of American gun control laws. 'Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold violated close to 20 firearms laws in amassing their cache of weapons (not to mention the law against murder), so it seems rather dubious to argue that additional laws might have prevented this tragedy. The two shotguns and rifle used by Harris and Klebold were purchased by a girlfriend who would have passed a background check, and the TEC-9 handgun used by them was already illegal.' -(http://www.cato.org...) . Additionally I would also like to remind everybody that Boston which has pretty much the strictest gun control also has the most school shootings and that there was a Federal Ban on Assault Weapons 1994 to 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org...) Which did not impact school shootings. 'Gun accidents involving children are actually at record lows, although you wouldn"t know it from listening to the mainstream media. In 1997, the last year for which data are available, only 142 children under 15 years of age died in gun accidents, and the total number of gun-related deaths for this age group was 642. More children die each year in accidents involving bikes, space heaters or drownings. The often repeated claim that 12 children per day die from gun violence includes "children" up to 20 years of age, the great majority of whom are young adult males who die in gang-related violence.' . ('http://www.cato.org...) . 'When I say further restricting uses, I mean that some gun related incidents (9 year old shooting instructor) can indeed be prevented if we restricted the uses! Such as, not giving a gun to a 9 year old for starters.' That scenario is such an incredibly isolated case that it cannot serve as an argument for severe gun control , as this simply does not happen often. The Logic here is 1)A girl shot her instructor 2) Don't allow gun training for children , This would only be a reasonable approach if such a scenario happened often , it is not reasonable to stop millions of parents from making sure their children can defend themselves not just from criminals but from a possibility of a future tyrannical state because one instructor died due to his own stupidity. (For more info for why it's the Instructors fault - ). 'I. Washington DC's low murder rate of 80.6 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Arlington, VA's high murder rate of 1.6 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control. Which proves my point that stricter gun control can lead to less gun relayed murders.' Is my opponent arguing for my side? 'Criminals in Washington have no trouble getting either prohibited drugs or prohibited handguns, resulting in a skyrocketing of the city's murder rate. D.C.'s 1991 homicide rate of 80.6 per 100,000 population was the highest ever recorded by an American big city, and marked a 200% rise in homicide since banning handguns, while the nation's homicide rate rose just 11%. Since 1991, the homicide rate has re mained near 75 per 100,000, while the national rate hovers around 9-10.' -(http://people.duke.edu...) my opponent basically agrees with me , but if he simply got it the wrong way around then first of all my opponent has picked very isolated cases and he does not show me his source therefore I cannot address something that is not supported by any evidence , My opponent has also failed to show if the numbers really have to do with gun control . Unfortunatly this is the last round so I won't be able to respond either way, As I have shown previously statistics are on my side as States that allow registered citizens to carry concealed weapons have lower crime rates than those that don"t , this is not even debatable - 'from the FBI's Annual Uniform Crime Report, that `right-to-carry' states (i.e., those that widely allow concealed carry) have 22 percent lower total violent crime rates, 30 percent lower murder rates, 46 percent lower robbery rates, and 12 percent lower aggravated assault rates, as compared to the rest of the country. 4' (-http://thomas.loc.gov.........)My conclusion will be found in the comment section.