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Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

I dont think guns should be banded but i do think we need to get rid of the black market sales of guns i live here in Oklahoma where you can go to the state fair grounds where they have a gun and knife show and they dont even check back grounds or nothing that is a bad loop hole in the system and you can buy a ar15 ak47 and so on but if you go in a regular gun shop here you can not buy that type of weapon i think those type of rifles should stay in the military not on the streets but i also think if people want to carry or have one in there homes they should have to go to a mandatory gun course and it not be very simple like it is here where i live and get there licence to beable to buy and own one and some type of mental evaluation this can be all done and probably costly but it will make some kinda of a difference because we all need to protect our self's and i believe that will help keep most of the insane nuts from just going out there and being able to buy one i love my freedom and being able to own my guns and being able to pack one to protect my self but i think the laws are just to loose just for anybody to go in a store and buy one i know you have to go thru a backgroung check but to me thats not good enough because not every body has a felony record but they still dont have any business owning one and not even capable of shooting one but they just walk out the door with no training and most of them with no clue on how to shoot one so theres my thought and opinion im sure most wont agree because they think its an infringement on our 2nd admitment right
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

i am surprised that nobody has said anything about the jobs that would be lost if they ban semi auto firearms. one of the only branches of business that is flourishing right now. lets put more people out of work shall we. back to the task at hand.most vehicles we drive in u.s. have the capability to go over 100 mph. these vehicles are used every day on roads that will never Legally allow you to drive over 80. yet everybody still buys these 100 mph + vehicles. car accidents and vehicle related deaths by far out weigh the firearm related deaths. why arent they banned and have all of the cars thrown in a big pit and burned while we all walk to work how would that be. of course nobody needs the cars to go over 100 mph. but guess what we have them. why. because WE CAN. do we really need semi auto weapons. maybe, maybe not. but there is more cause to ban 100+ mph cars than firearms. and by the way all of you idiot peace blah blah blah hippies out there. i am an American and i love my cars that can go over 100 mph i love my cheeseburgers and i enjoy shooting my semi auto firearms. not for the soul purpose of killing people, but for my own personal enjoyment. America was built with the understanding that a corrupt government would never allow their "subjects" to have firearms. why do you think they fled and came here in the first place. that is why it is important to keep this right in the constitution and not a chopped and diced version that corrupt politicians have molded to suit there needs. but a pure constitution that means what it states. that i have the right to keep and bear arms. even semi auto rifles and handguns.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Guns don't kill people, if they did, they would go to jail for murder- not the murderers. Jk they kill peoplebut are good for self defense. If they were illegalized, it would lead to black market sales which would lead to higher crime. If it is legal, the government can use the money to do stuff.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

I know this is an old debate but in light of today's events in Connecticut I have been doing a little poking around on the internet and came across this...Here's my thought - Criminals and anyone who wants to get their hands on a gun, any gun, can and will. They don't care that guns are outlawed - in fact, that spurs some people on to have one just because the government says they can't. What, do we think that a criminal is going to sigh, throw up their hands and say "Gee, I guess I can't own a gun - gotta find something more productive and socially acceptable to do... " No, in fact - if we ban guns I believe the criminals are going to rejoice because it gives them an upper hand when committing their crimes.Look at drugs - they are outlawed and banned but our children today are STILL dying from overdoses because drugs are still on the street. It didn't deter criminals from owning, using or distributing it. It will be the same with guns. Tighter control - perhaps - but until you can GUARANTEE that no one, ever again, will be able to have a gun in their hands when coming into contact with me, I say we can't ban guns!
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Attempting to use the logic that guns should be outlawed solely based on the fact that they make it easier to commit crimes and are involved in such a high number of crimes and deaths each year has me wondering what these same people would say about alcohol. Alcohol ranks higher than guns in both categories.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

No.http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/ Gun_control_laws_don_t_work_in_Europe_or_anywhere_else_What_does_work_is_an_armed_society
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Typically it is the maniacs who own the guns who kill people. Sometimes, other methods of killing are used and have larger effects. For example, millions of jews were killed during the Holocaust, sometimes with guns, but more times than not they were killed by poison. Sometimes, bombs or blades are used more than guns. If no one has a gun, criminals will find some way of getting guns and killing the upstanding American citizen.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

I own a gun! check the news- I haven't hurt a soul except for the animals I was going to eat.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Heroin, weed, coke, meth, all of these things are illegal but the illegal drug business is worth over 1 billion dollars in the US! If a criminal wants a gun he will get one just like drugs. The only thing that would change is next time someone decided to kill someone it would be like shooting fish in a barrel!  We should have a right to defend ourselves!!!
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

i don't believe that the problem is weapons. the problem in this nation is the poor up bringing of children, we have lost the values that built this great country, we have lost respect for human life and forgot that we are brothers and sisters in humanity and the channels of communication have been shadowed by violence and newer generations that only believe in the importance of self image and respect in the streets.when i was an 8 year old girl my dad took me hunting for the first time, when i shot the rifle he gave me, i instantly fell in love with the sport. but it wasn't just the sport he taught me about, he also showed me the huge responsibility that lies behind that trigger but most of all he taught me that something so small like a bullet could change your life and someone Else's in the blink of an eye, and if you ever harm someone with it... it must come down to fearing for your life.what we need in this country is education. we spend more money in prisons then colleges and then wonder why parents are not educating children with values now a days. it isn't guns that kill people, is the mentality these people carry around in their heads that kill other people. there is a bigger picture then what we are seeing here, and a bigger monster to tackle. if someone wants to kill, they will kill, gun or no gun. banning guns is not the solution. education is.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

No, because it is a second amendment right to allow citizens to keep firearms. To control the sale of them is one thing, to ban them entirely is unconstitutional and a over reaction.Look at all the car accidents that result from reckless drivers. Should we ban the cars to prevent such accidents. No.Such a overreaction is like burning down a house trying to roast a pig.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

But, do they not ban drunk drivers from driving again? I see you fail to understand the point of banning weapons. Just as cars do not kill people, but their drivers do, so do the owners of handguns. It is difficult to control those who would own guns just as it is difficult to control those who own cars. We cannot ban cars, BUT, we can ban those who have proven to be difficult the right to drive them. As weapons are not cars, but objects designed SOLELY TO KILL, they should be banned outright.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Thing is, full on gun bans don't work. Not if you already have really lax gun laws to begin with. Not even restrictions would work in our society. You see, millions, if not, probably trillions of firearms and related items have been diffused across the United states over the past sixty years. Like all material items, a lot of these guns, and I mean A LOT, have been traded, sold, bought again, or locked away in storage and forgotten. A lot of them at gun shows, where one can purchase a new or used firearm without having to register it. Even if the government were to go down the list, name by name, of everyone who's registered a firearm, at least 95% of those names would be outdated, as the owner had sold it a long time ago.My next point is that we would be defenseless. Look at Australia, for instance. One small shooting and -BOOM!- No more guns. Of course, guns are not fully banned, but are really hard to acquire. That being said, when the government asked for all the guns back, the good, law-abiding people coughed them up, while the criminals kept them. This resulted in an increased crime rate. The baddies had nothing to fear, because the odds that their targets had a weapon was slim to none.Lastly, even if you banned guns, and everyone -even the criminals- handed them in like good little minions, the criminals could very easily just acquire them illegally; That, or come after you with a hatchet or machete. Honestly, if I had a choice, I'd rather be popped once in the head with a .45 than be hacked to death, piece by piece, while I'm still breathing. Wouldn't you?
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

ENFORCE THE LAWS WE ALREADY HAVE, MORE THAN 10,000 PEOPLE DIE FROM DRUNK DRIVING AND MOST OF THEM ARE FROM SECOND AND THIRD OFFENDERS BECAUSE SOME PEICE OF SHIT MONEY HUNGRY LAWER GOT THEM OFF. tHE ASSHOLE WHO KILLED THOSE TWO FIREMAN ONLY DID 18 YEARS IN JAIL FOR KILLING HIS GRAND MOTHER WITH A HAMMER, HE KILLED A HUMAN BEING WITH A FREAKING HAMMER FOR GOD SAKE AND SOME LAWER GOT HIM TO ONLY SERVE 18 YEARS, PUT THAT LAWERS NAME ON THE INTERNET ALONG WITH THE JUDGE WHO LET HIM OUT. COME TO MY HOUSE AND TRY AND TAKE MY GUNS I ACTUALLY LEAVE MY DOORS UNLOCKED HOPING SOME POROLLED ASS HOLE BREAKS IN. IF MORE PEOPLE CARRIED GUNS ASSHOLES WOULD HAVE TO THINK TWICE ABOUT COMMITING A CRIME
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

What sucks is both sides have some valid points but one side is going about it all wrong. Limiting guns or their capacities to hold ammunition will not stop the violence it will only change the tools used but probably not even that as we see in examples. Whats worse than guns in this country is our technicalities. All a technicality should do is save someone from being put to death. There should be no instances where we consider someones background for a crime committed and its sentence. But then again there are so many things considered a crime in this country any more just to generate capital that everything needs to be considered before a change like that can happen. We've complicated things so much because we allow feelings get in the way of the real agenda. Protection is a basic right from anyone and from anything, murder is not and until that is addressed, all these what-if scenarios to create an agenda are wrong. Yes they occur and must be addressed but it should not be mixed into another agenda. The gun owners using any verbal ammunition no pun intended to protect their rights as you have seen are only retaliating to all these what-if scenarios you create to infringe on their rights, which is also your right if you choose to accept it. These men and women have not done anything wrong for you to attack them and are only defending themselves from an attack. The second amendment was put into law by the law for they knew the travesties that could happen when law corrupts. We as individuals know how the country 'should' work but we do not see all the gears turning and changing and many times these gedon'tdont get oiled or over oiled and we must keep our basic rights unscathed or we will then be scathed. I understand we are complex beings but if we keep over complicating certain things the real problems will never get addressed.So to all you homos who write all these long drawn out stories thinking because of it your agenda has won because of it. Eat this. Mines bigger than most of yours and Im not talking about my story haha and I'm trained not controlled for all you wise a$$es haha.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

Tell me, what is the entire point of having a police force? If you have weapons, then why bother keeping a police force? Or a military for that matter? People like you simple do not get it.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

The number 1 weapon used in a violent crime is a baseball bat... Not a gun. Plus, when your endangered, the police are minutes away when only seconds count to save your life. Guns should not be banned because then the government would become to powerful. If it is a right, then that shouldn't be able to be taken away from you. they should take baseball bats away before guns because #1, they are easier to get. also, a gun is only dangerous if its used by the wrong person.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

"I ask, Sir, what is the millitia? It is the whole people, to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them." -George Mason 1788
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

guns don't kill people. people kill people. its not everyone's right to have a gun but that doesn't mean they should be banned. we just need a true sense of self control and some more protection against guns by simply giving out bullet proof vest as some sort of promotion or public service.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Guns don't kill people. There should be perhaps more restrictions or background checks (for people with mental disorders, etc.) but the only people that would be affected by banning guns would be the lawful citizens. If you make it illegal to rob a bank, the criminals would continue robbing banks even if it was illegal. Criminals would still use guns. They don't care what the law is. Responsible gun owners (like myself) use them for lawful reasons. Mainly I have guns for hunting, riflery, etc. Not even with an emphasis on personal protection, however not against it.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

With bigger, more important issues than gun control looming around, I think gun control can wait. Plus, it isn't exactly a nat'l security threat, considering the current population, roughly 314 million strong, and birth rates in the US, 30k lives to gun related homicide a year is a small price to pay. You'd think, with the gun control side composed of lawyers with remarkable skill, they'd know better than to badger people with emotional pleas like their favorite argument, think of the children. These incidents are famous because they happen so rarely. My niece and nephew go out in public all the time and the come home in one piece 99.99% of the time. All I have to say to the parents of the Newtown victims is I'm sorry this happened to you, it is simply tragic, but dwelling on it won't make the pain go away, surely you understand that life is unfair and uncertain, I mean, you're all older and wiser than I am, right?
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

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Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

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Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Keep the Guns Change the System

I don't understand why people think that by guns being banned in America would reduce crime? Of course it won't stop crime because criminals are not going to go buy a gun legally anyway, but rather from the back of the van. Large majority of gun owners do not like the idea of the background check, which in my opinion does is a very good. I had a background check when I purchased my gun and no problems at all. I have absolutely no problem with that. Of course, it won't stop criminals completely, but at least it will reduce the number of those who should not own guns. In addition, criminals will think twice about harming someone when you live in a state where the gun laws are not so strict........and no, I am not a NRA member nor do I ever wish to be one.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Guns are two sided. They can protect you when someone breaks into your house, but they can hurt if someone pulls one on you.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

• People can use the guns for self-defence.• If we ban it, gangsters will be the only ones to be able to have guns by smuggling it. We won’t be able to defend ourselves.• Many people will not use it to kill people so it wouldn’t matter a lot if everyone could get one.• People will not be able to hunt for recreation.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

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Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

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Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

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Side: No, guns don't kill people.

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Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Guns dont kill people! I am against assualt gun bans! Not only are these toy fun and look good, they are a simble of American freedom. However gun education and gun safty are important. For example, teach a child not to play with guns and that they can and will kill people. Assualt guns are already tough to come by, this would only effect law abiding citizens! It would also mean people who illeagaly buy guns can so easily kill us without guns. So if you ban guns even more poeple might die to them. With a gun in your hand for defence you can kill the person tring to kill you. Beter them then you right?
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

You can be 'enslaved' whether you have the right to guns or not. You are going to use your handgun, with no training whatsoever, against highly-trained, well-equipped soldiers? None too bright, are you? Your state will enslave you whether you like it or not. Rather difficult to do in a democratic society, I should think.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

No guns don't kill people , people kill peopleAnd saying gun kill people is saying that people don't toast , toast but that toast,toast,toast Once after this debate went major I set out a gun with it loaded setting it in a lawn chair right beside me in my front yard and numerous people went by like the mailman guys on motorcycles and little girls playing and despite all the chances the gun had to shot someone about one thousand times that day and it never happened but then I went hunting found a nice deer and then I yes I shot the deer and it died by who meHave you ever noticed that guns never get credit for killing but the person does ? That's because the person kills the person shots not the gun unless there like the toy story characters and walk around when I'm not looking which I highly doubt so people kill people and people toasts toast
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

With guns there is less crime, with no guns crime will go up by 99%
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

An absolutely ridiculous viewpoint. Those who commit such crimes have access to guns. Remove such access and you have no crime. One need only create a stronger police force, with tougher laws to back them up. The liberals have so weakened our laws against criminals that it is absurd. Capital punishment should be brought back and in greater force. Armed gangs should be wiped out via the use of your military. If you have a military, USE IT.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Guns most certainly should be banned in America. As a Canadian, I know this argument better than any American alive today. Whilst true that guns do not kill people, they provide those with the ability to kill. Look at all of those school murders. The theatre murders. Need I go on? Had those who committed the murders been denied access to such weapons, those children would still be alive today. To allow others the ability to own guns puts our children in danger.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

This isn't very new, but it's true. If guns are outlawed, only outlaws have guns. I've heard supporters of gun control peck at this unoriginality, claiming it to be a weakness. The reason we repeat this is because it's true. Gun control needs to die and the people supported gun control should focus on what makes criminals. Also, before you blame money, it's not money, it's finding wants to be more important than things like morals and others
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

NO!Obama= OneBigAssMistakeAmerica! Hillary will be the death of this country.. I'm menopausal and I know I shouldn't have control of nukes! And that crazy bat should be in a straight jacket..
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

The Second 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.