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Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

You don't want dead guys? Here are some live ones....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 crimeThe conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.-- Report of the Subcommittee On The Constitution of the Committee OnThe Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, second session(February, 1982), SuDoc# Y4.J 89/2: Ar 5/5In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.-- Stephen P. Halbrook, "That Every Man Be Armed", 1984"But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you ... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."- Dalai Lama"In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'"- Robin Williams"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."- James Earl JonesHere are few more dead ones, but NOT from the 18th century." ... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law."- Martin Luther King"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."- Sigmund FreudThe most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.-- Hitler, April 11 1942(Look how that turned out for the world.)
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Don B. Kates ---nicely cut out from context.Stephen P. Halbrook paid weapon lobbyist Dalai Lama nicely cut out from context.Robin Williams -- bullshit, they will stop you.James Earl Jones -- actor....Martin Luther King talking about race and nation, nothing to do with weaponsSigmund Freud --majority of his work was debunked years ago.Hitler (dead by the way). -- I can give 100 citation where he is taking about genocide and why all Arian people should be armed...You just cut out stuff from works you've never read, speeches you've never saw.It's as meaningless as the previous reply.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

I'm sorry, but how are these out of context or wrong? They aren't from works, they are direct quotations. Have you seen these speeches? Read these "works"? If you have you must be middle aged. If your not old enough, don't accuse me of things you have never done yourself. Show me. Show me your facts. You haven't yet. Show me why these are wrong. Being an actor doesn't count? Being a civil rights activist doesn't mean your talking about guns? Being a respectable psychologist doesn't count either? Being one of the most famous religous leaders means they cant support guns? Hitler did believe in disarming his own people. That's why we have Jews for the Preservation of Firearms. Show me. Try it.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

As I said before, Guns are item designed to kill another people, they have no other use, you cannot cook with them or build a house. It's an item with only one purpose, to kill another human being. So if someone is going to buy weapon there could be only one reason why... that's why civilized countries tests potential gun owners.Only one reason? Yes obviously if I buy a gun its to kill someone, not to defend myself.You are blabbing, people does not need guns.It sickens me that authoritarians such as yourself view talking about guns to be blabbing.People need guns.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

It was proven that countries like UK and Japan, that are more democratic than US has banned weapons long time ago and yet the amount of killing done by any weapon is incredibly lower.You wrote to me 49 minutes ago, in that time was statistically person shot dead in US...
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

UK has a higher violent crimes rate. You also have to factor in that in America there is alot more gangs that in the UK or Japan. Never trade Liberty for security, you'll end up losing them both.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Never trade Liberty for security, you'll end up losing them both.what you mean by that?
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Example: You trade the Liberty of free speech to quell tensions, you have now lost the security of being able to speak out against what is wrong.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

How exactly "security of being able to speak out against what is wrong" this happens in the UK?
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Example: You trade the Liberty of free speech to quell tensions, you have now lost the security of being able to speak out against what is wrong.You see it yet?Example: You trade the Liberty of free speech to quell tensionsNow?Example:How about now?
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

is it even in English? .
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Well before we answer that, we should address the more important question: how dumb are you?It was an EXAMPLE for the phrase, how had is it to understand?
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Why do Americans really need heavy guns if not to shoot people? The fact is that if there were no guns America would be a much safer place. So if someone wants to protect themself from a wild animal do they need a gun? Well, if they live near an area where there are creatures such as this then I do not see a real reason why they should not have something to keep them safe, such as a small pistol to wound an animal to give them time to get away and to freedom. Surely there is no reason to walk around with a heavy machine gun to protect yourself from a bear?
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

obviously, Black bears are ridiculous. I dunno what I'd do without my mounted mini gun on my jeep to protect me from those savage beasts >.><.<
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Most Americans are as big as bears, anyway.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Hey Micmacmoc does this mean you are coming back?
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Oh yeah
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

You ever going to bring back your original account back Mic?
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Forgotten the password ;)
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

I think that it should be the people who are in need of self-control. Guns are good if used properly, but considering the lack of discipline by man these days, I think guns should be controlled until man becomes more responsible and worthy of holding one.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Hang on there, did you just say that an instrument whose invention hinged on the will to kill things more efficiently is a good thing? No man is worthy of holding the means to end another man's life.No wonder America is so fucked.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

The 2nd amendment rights should be protected, and US citizens who are well qualified to own such weapons should be able to, however implementing better gun regulations such as taking a test, and doing things to continue to ensure that guns do not fall into the wrong hands. For it is not the guns fault, but the person who is using the gun, we need to regulate these guns and make sure they don't fall into the wrong hands by implementing proper tests and procedures to do so. If guns were as regulated as automobiles, we would be in a safer environment.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

All weapons are controlled in the UK... so they thinkPeople seem to forget how effective a well loaded handbag or a book can be.But guns are designed to kill at the press of a button(trigger), and there's little effort in that.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

The benifits of no gun control are far outweighed by the negatives, thus gun control is neccisary.Also in reference to the picture in the OP, gun control is like the liscence to drive a car, and the pathetic level of gun laws at the moment pretty much means nothing.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Well, the past people were allowed to keep guns because those guns couldn't kill 30 people in 30 seconds. However, now people for some reason started buying modern weapons. If guns make people safer why America is not the safest place in the world? Generally speaking guns have harmed people a lot because some mentally ill people misuse it.Every person who wants to get gun have to be pass some tests of mental health. Nowadays it's cheaper and easier to buy a gun than a driving license. 119,079 children and teenager’s lives have been taken since 1979 by gun violence and this number will increase unless the government will fix this problem.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

It's beyond belief to me that any person should carry a gun , I remember my first time in the states and actually seeing armed police as an outsider (Ireland) I was shocked , now I know Americans find that strange , but by definition a gun is life threatening thus my shock . Guns have no place in society and much and all as I love the USA and its marvellous people I don't like guns . No other passage in the US Constitution is as hotly debated as the Second Amendment. In full, this controversial sentence reads:“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”Although most people focus on the “bear arms” part, the real key word is “militia.” The thing is, in 1791, no-one really knew if this whole “Union” thing was going to work out. Many of the States distrusted each other, and everyone distrusted big government. The possibility of invasion was frighteningly real, and the Second Amendment was put in place to make sure that a citizen’s militia could defend the principles of the constitution. What the Second Amendment didn’t do was grant any drunken asshole the right to stagger into a gun shop and buy an assault rifle without a single background check. In 1939, the Supreme Court even ruled that:“The Second Amendment must be interpreted and applied with the view of its purpose of rendering effective Militia.”By 2008, they’d extended that to cover self-defense in the home—something else that doesn’t require a high-capacity magazine and the ability to kill everything within a three block radius. But that’s all they’d extended it to: there’s no constitutional “right” to carry a concealed weapon, no “right” to use armor-piercing bullets—just the right to defend yourself against intruders. And as Stephen King famously said: “if you can’t kill an intruder with ten rounds, you need to go back to the shooting range.”
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Reasonable gun control. Comparing hitler and stalin to gun regulation is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Gun violence in America is an anathema. Gun control is imperative.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

This is so true, especially that last paragraph on psychology. The media fails to realise that when they shovel shit like "he was an evil monster and anyone like him should be killed", they immediately alienate anyone who has the potential to be in the same state of mind as him, and become more likely to do terrible things like Columbine/Aurora/Newtown or whatever.I'm not saying we need to encourage these people to think the way they do, but a little less aggression and vitriol in our media would be more effective than a million gun control laws.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Ditto. Whatever you said. It is long so..., it must be good ;)
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

shit, i meant to put this as my source for self-defense and gun control. sorry.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

We don't need gun control we need people control. We need to make sure that people who want to kill don't get guns. In the case of newtown he got the gun from a family member but this idea would have stopped the shootings at the Seik Temple and at the Movie Theatre showing Batman.People want to ban assult rifles because they think they cause crime. If i was a criminal i would get it illagly if i wanted it. And if i couldn't get that i would get a M1 Carbine or another rifle that is simiautomatic. They want to ban assultrifles because they look scary. One could do just as much damage with another rifle or a pistol.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Adolf says Hi, welcome to fascism. People control? Seriously?What next? The NSA can wiretap my phone and monitor my internet usage just in case i might be planning a terrorist attack?By the way, if you want to stop the unstable from getting firearms, they probably shouldn't be available for legal purchase on every other streetcorner. so yeah. Gun regulation is necessary.The fact that the weapons could be found, despite being banned, isn't the issue. We know that. The point is that someone a little fucked up on meth or some shit can't walk into walmart and walk out with a beretta and a hundred rounds of ammunition and go slaughter his ex girlfriend because she said "hi" one time.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

A meth addict can walk into walmart and buy a beretta and shoot his gf.You know there is a waiting peroid for buying a gun correct?
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

It should be obvious that we need more guns, not less, less is the reason that got us into this mess with GUN FREE ZONE, this is a welcome mat for mass shootings.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Honestly, this was closer to what I wanted to see than gun control. This shooting was the result of irresponsible gun ownership. The woman should have had her guns locked up, not out in the open. The woman knew her son was mentally unstable, and should have taken the initiative to not give him the opportunity to have access to the guns without her supervision. I am sorry to say it, but it is kind of her fault. We need to preach gun responsibility, teach owners to lock up their guns, or hide them away, not have them easily obtainable for whoever wishes to pick them up. Gun control was not the issue here, lack of responsibility was.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Indeed, this was a result of irresponsible gun ownership. Which just goes to show the lack of gun control is letting our guns fall into the hands of unexperienced and unqualified gun owners. If we put regulations in place and regulated our guns so they don't fall into the wrong hands we could prevent more accidents like this happening.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Yes because let us ALL go by what they think! By your logic, we should purge all those agaisnt the country because the hold a threat to the glorious leader! (Stalin) On a serious note, though, think of Texas. Lowest crime rate- yet everyone has a gun. Having more gun control is like punishing someone because they knew Stalin.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

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Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

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Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

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Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

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Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

This debate is getting old. I've seen it on several other sites. I say just arm everyone, give them some training, then let the problems resolve themselves.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

and the first thing people like me would do is throw that gun away. So what does that accomplish? the mass murder of everyone who refuses to bear arms and the appearance of some kind of sick and twisted anarchist state where the last man standing gets to rule the world? Sure, alot of problems solved all at once. Poverty disappears, world hunger no longer relevant, the environment has time to repair itself with no more human interference. But humanity dies. That's it, we're done. All because some genius decided to arm everyone.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Any gun control is unconstitutional. So no, guns should not be banned nor should any type of ban be in place.2nd amendment: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall NOT be INFRINGED.any law to limit type of gun used, owned, or banned guns, ammo, magazine size, etc. is by definition INFRINGEMENT of the 2nd amendment because the government is telling its people whats ok and not ok. where in any of that ideology of gun control laws does that spell freedom?once the infringement begins with the 2nd amendment where will it stop? government says movies and video games are to violent and ban them. big macs, soda, and fries make you to fat so we'll ban those.Gun laws and bans are put in place that only affect good law abiding free citizens.Criminals do not follow laws. That is BY DEFINITION a criminal!!! They will steal guns, get them from the black market, or from any illegal shipments from other countries if they have to.Most of these mass shootings happen in so called "gun free zones". where gun control laws prohibit good law abiding citizens from carrying a gun to protect themselves and others. These gun free zones like schools, hospitals, post offices, most government areas, as well as buisnesses and public conventions that post no gun allowed signs, are basically advertising to these criminals, psychos, and mass murders that this will be a easy place to slaughter people because no one can defend themselves!!!how often do you hear of a mass shooting or gun related firefight at a place where there are known 100's of gun carriers like gun shows, police stations, or nra conventions? Because criminals know some people will be packing a gun there and it will not be easy. there are thousands of stories where armed citizens stop criminals, in many cases without firing a shot and just showing the gun. The liberal media today mostly just films the major gun massacres and shootings because its big news, gets peoples attention, ratings, and promotes their agenda for gun control.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need gun control

Patriot, your right to keep and bear arms is not so that you can blow away the guy your wife cheated on you with. It's to stop an oppressive government from enslaving you. The stupid thing is, you're looking the most progressive government America has had in ages in the face and saying "Nah, bro, we don't like that. Fuck safety, i want my guns for all the WRONG reasons."Obama isn't trying to infringe your rights, he's trying to save you from yourselves.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

every dictatorship and communist country started by taking away guns. Hitler did so while surrounded by children, saying it was for the good of the children. True, mentally disabled and disturbed people and felons convicted of Violent crimes should not have them, we have rights. The 2nd amendment people!!! We need to keep our guns, because we are losing rights one by one. The right to bear arms is needed or else the police and army would be the only people to have them. Oddly enough, there is a picture of President Obama Shooting a rifle at the white house.
Debate: Gun Control - should we have it?
Side: We need our guns

Gun control is pointless. I am very anti-violence and hunting but if we take all guns away, the people we are trying to get them away from will still find a way to access them. This is as pointless as trying to ban drugs. Why take away from the people who use their weapons to hunt and such?
Debate: Has evolution been scientifically proved?
Side: It has

In Biology a theory is the highest title you can give to a scientific study. There is more than enough evidence to substantiate that evolution has occurred, does occur, and will continue. Evolution will never obtain the title of Law as that is reserved for mathematical formulas. There is a law of gravity, but there is a theory of gravitation. Because in science gravity and gravitation are slightly different.
Debate: Has evolution been scientifically proved?
Side: It has

"Evolution will never obtain the title of Law as that is reserved for mathematical formulas."There's a few, Mendel's come to mind. But it's hard to break down something as statistically based as evolution into something with nice algebraic terms.
Debate: Has evolution been scientifically proved?
Side: It has

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province which was brought into Confederation in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion. The area has been inhabited for thousands of years, with European contact made in the 17th century. The province has over 10,000 lakes, and has a largely continental climate due to its mostly flat topography.