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

ya look these kids were messed up.......and got there hands on guns anyway but look at it like this. had every teacher, janitor, principal,etc in that building had a gun how many peoples life's would have been saved??
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

accidents caused by contingent actionspeople suffering from mental illness and minor may use a gun in wrong ways
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

I say that guns should be banned because they are killing thousands of people each week
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Then cars should be banned because they are using drunk drivers to kill people every weekend. And I betcha plenty of those drunk driving murderers would not own a gun because they think it is too dangerous.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Saying," I say that guns should be banned because they are killing thousands of people each week." is like saying,"I say that people should be banned because they are killing thousands of people each week
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

Okay i wish there was both sides because to be honest i am doing a project on this and i really wanna do both sides. we should banned guns because in the year of 2012 and of course 2011 there have been many killings, deaths, and shoot outs. shoot outs at SCHOOL! Come on and im pretty sure there will be many more that's sad and crazy. anyways, there's been kids dying from guns that either accidently went off or one is shooting one another. its not so much their fault for having the gun its for the people who sells CHILDREN Guns illegaly and i doubt they wont stop because to them that's like their salary, the money that pays bills. not to long ago a little girl in 3rd grade (i think, but she was young) got shoot by a little boy because he had a gun in his bag and it accidently went off when he set his bag down. kids my age dies like everyday that's scary. and there's people that will shoot someone for no reason.this is the part that is confusing but makes sence why i agree to having guns but also shouldn't. people say we should have guns because i can keep my children safe. i can protect myself from people that is robbing me. like for real that's good reasons but you can also kill someone just trying to protect yourself. (i hate death if you cant tell) so when the police ask you what happen you'll just say i killed someone because they were robbing me. like they already got their consequence because you killed them, so what about your consequence you just killed someone! that's murder! either if it was an accident, trying to defend your self doesnt matter i think you should at least get consequences (they prob. do but i just dont know). like if someone was beating you up and you fight back you will get in trouble for fighting back. so why is it different from shooting someone and killing them. Hope you liked i kind of went off track(: but yeah. By: Porshe' Sturgis 14years old. March.19.2012
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

guns should be banned everyone who is saying no is an idiot
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Your a real genius aren't you. It's people like you who will look to people like us when you need help.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

guns should be banned because kids can get killed and there is shootings in the sua almost every week get a life and stop guns
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

please stop guns in the usa help others and help the poor You are absolutely wrong about the second amendment being put in place to prevent a British invasion or coup. It was put in place partially to allow the creation of militias. You're also wrong about guns making crime rates go higher, take a look at Switzerland. Men there are required to own automatic weapons and yet they have next to no crime rate. Their lack of a standing army is what was originally for seen for the United States, or a system similar. A small standing army to form the core of a greater force in times of war. That is what the second amendment implies. Obviously you know little about guns, a shotgun is probably one of the least threatening weapons to people. Their limited range for their weight and length makes them impractical for crime, but perfect for the defense of ones home. The guns aren't the problem its people and don't start blaming poverty, or education. Just because you're poor doesn't mean that you have to kill someone to improve your life. There are many ways to do that. So long as guns exist people will always find a way to acquire them. By reducing the number of honest, law abiding citizens with the capability to protect themselves from these criminals you're asking for a breakdown of order. But I diverge from the topic at hand. Point is only an idiot points a gun anywhere near a person they don't want to kill. There's no such thing as a gun related accident, gun related deaths almost always are caused by carelessness or stupidity or both.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

The british aren't going to invade, so we don't need to protect ourselves". So when an american enters you're home with intent to kill, are you going to defend yourself with a fork? I do agree that most burglary's that occur do not involve a murder or serious injury, but not all home invasion's are with the intent to remove your property. If I we're in the position to put my life on the line, or lose a television, I would rather lose the television. The question is whether this person is here to steal my property or harm me or my family. I would rather have the means to protect myself and my family. If we lived in a perfect world where we didn't have Poverty, Drugs and Poor Education, then maybe I could see youre point. The fact of the matter is we don't. When America gets to the point where I can go to sleep at night, or even go about my daily business and not worry, then I'll consider getting rid of my gun. Until then, we live in a dangerous world where people live outside the law and I feel safe knowing theres an amendment granting me the right to defend myself.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

YES! beacase in country there guns are ileagle the criminality is way lower than americastastistic shows that
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

It is morally better to yell and scream at an armed attacker than to shoot them.Guns in the hands of stupid people are dangerous.....we should also ban stupid people.Everyone knows that a pregnant woman, an old person, or a person in a mobile home could excape trouble by hiding in their bedroom with a criminal in their home and calling the police who are miles away.Private citizens, who are alone in their homes, dont need guns, they need to rely on the police, who travel in groups, have radios, and carry guns.The second amendment says MILITIAS have the right to carry guns, not private citizens, and that is why the militias are there to protects us and are composed of....private citizens.Guns are extremely dangerous, and thats why schools which are gun free zones as are churches are not targeted by violent criminals while guns shows and reenactments are replete with criminal violence.Who needs a gun when you can dive under your bed and be safe from a criminal? A criminal might take you gun and use it on you....especially if it is better than the one he is carrying and since he can get to you before you pull the trigger.Columbine was safe because it was a gun free zone and the guys who did the shooting were simplylaw abiding citizens who happened to have nasty guns. Besides, all was well once they called the cops.Having a gun in the home of a private citizen who takes it out now and then for target shooting is more dangerous than a car in the hands of a citizen who drinks himself silly every weekend.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

I have a framing hammer in my car. This girl next to me is alive not because I have no gun and cannot bring it in, and amidst screaming people, shoot her, but because I have a framing hammer in my car they would not notice...and I have no desire to harm her which I could do within seconds. It would take me less than a minute to kill her with my hammer. A split second to shoot her. Neither of my implements pose her a threat because I am not a murderer. If I desired to kill her, not one of these people or ten thousand cops could stop me within the next two minutes.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

The data is irrefutable. Countries that ban guns or implement stricter laws concerning firearms have lower crime rates.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

The right to own a weapon is not, nor should it be, a fundamental right. If there were no consequences to gun ownership, I would certainly support allowing all guns everywhere. But there are consequences. Guns kill people just like fists kill people, except it is much easier to erroneously kill/injure with a gun.I dispute the claim of self-defense rights. It is indisputably safer to not own a gun than to own a gun, save for the rare case when the area is so dangerous that using the gun to save oneself is statistically more likely than using it to kill oneself/others, on accident or otherwise. And all of these special cases exist only because guns exist in the first place. Remove them all and violence drops dramatically (after all, there is no such thing as a drive-by knife fight).The mission to remove guns from the streets is akin to the drive to promote world peace. In fact, they are essentially the same thing. Although promoting peace can have consequences (often, it creates conflict) the less war there is the better. It is the same with guns. The unique factor that makes guns, like war, so worth fighting against is that they cause significant collateral damage. They fuel drug cartel violence, they contribute to accidental deaths and suicides, and they often kill innocent bystandards. Other weapons? Not so much.The attempt to ban guns begins at the supreme court. The 2nd ammendment must be re-interpreted under its primary intention, "militia." Militia, in today's speak, means locally stationed military, or just military. If reinterpreted correctly, this law does not protect gun owners.Next, the federal government would coordinate with states to completely eliminate all production of new guns in the country, and ban the importation. This would stifle the supply to almost zero.Finally, gun buyback programs and phased-in laws against gun ownership would slowly remove the remaining guns.This would require a lot of effort, and a lot of redneck outrage, but it would all be worth it in the long run. To the few people every year who get attacked by people and theroretically could have saved themselves if they had a gun (and also the assailant did not have a gun (and the victim could not have just defended with a knife)), sorry. You will die, but for the benefit of millions of victims and victims' families.I conclude with this statement: the less opportunities we have to kill, the less we do.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: No, guns don't kill people.

Why just for a simple "Redneck" as you have stereo typed me and my fellow gun owners, I have to say your an uneducated blind, ignorant person. People have been doing evil things since the beginning of time and guess what the criminals have always been armed with weapons that match that time period. And I WILL BE AS EQUALLY OR BETTER ARMED THAN THE PEOPLE WHO WISH TO DO MALICIOUS THINGS TO MY FAMILY. I will not fight bring a kitchen knife to a gun fight."unlike you". And the right to own my firearms and my right to my second AMENDMENT was fought for by my ancestors, which probably unlike you can be traced to the revolutionary war. And who are you to reinterpret the constitution? It says what it says for a reason. Not to be ever changed by any person or government for any reason! I CONCLUDE WITH THIS STATEMENT "THE STRONGEST REASON FOR THE PEOPLE TO RETAIN THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS IS AS A LAST RESORT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AGAINST TYRANNY IN GOVERNMENT" Thomas Jefferson. Sounds like to me he is on to something.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

simple facts u guys are killing your own people...of course u have the problem of having a huge influence by money in all your politics...so getting it banned ...don't think its feasable...allas...still in Europe where gun laws are very strict...the incidents....are not even near your safest city..and that our top estimate..fact criminals with evil intent will always be able 2 fabricate purchase or acquire a weapon..good thing here if some1 gets in a shooting incident its mostly liquidations IE criminal shooting criminal so good riddancethe not having the availability and ease of acquiring fire arms..does reflect in the figures ladies...but then we have a free health care 2 which saves lives..think the mentality of the us is not at the moment saving lives or the care of it reflected..in gun laws health care..food industry..etc...u guys are fucked basically..until you yourself decide 2 make some fundamental chances....don't give me this crap about democracy and free Dom...as yar living in a 2 party system..and no i ain't a commy..:)its egocentric group behavior whats killing..people...and sheep behavior...oh he has a gun beeeeeeeh beeeeeh i get 1 no better i get 2 beeeeeeeeh behh..and so ya all fall down the trap...gl on yas
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

I can hardly understand how this is not obvious, you have lost an unknown number of normal people today at a cinema screening. That should not be allowed to happen so easily, how can America let it? I have seen comments in the NEWS FEED which suggest that this is not a suprise for the area! My mind boggles, if someone is shot it should be a suprise! If you did not do everything humanly possible to prevent the possiblility that someone with the capacity to kill could have hold of a weapon with that capability then that is ridiculous. If the sacrifice you have to make is to hand over a gun which you cant prove you need for any good reason enough to keep it then that is a small price if it might save one life.The right to arms is out of date, just because people have them already is a weak excuse, maybe it will take 20 years to get it in order but every year will be a bit safer than the last. If you have a gun in your bag then that suggests you would consider using it, taking a life is a big deal, what if you missed, shot in a struggle through a window, or across the road. Guns kill because if point your fingers and say bang nobody dies.If you have a gun to protect yourself its a good bet that your attacker has one too, maybe if they were banned then they wouldnt have one... or so much confidence.Hand in your weapons because every time someone is shot you know it might just have been prevented.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

The easier it is to get hold of guns, the greater the likelihood of people being fatally shot. I realise that criminals and mentally afflicted people are unable to own guns legally, but since you can't predict who is going to commit a crime or develop a mental illness in the future, that doesn't offer much protection if somebody suddenly has a psychotic episode and goes on a killing spree.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

In Singapore we don't have peoples going around on killing spree!!!
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

I find America's obsession with guns fascinating. Because the founders of your country wrote a document hundreds of years ago stating that everybody has the right to bear arms means that this document cannot be challenged to suit a modern era many years later? What makes this Constitution infallible other than how much importance is placed on its merits by the people? No single document or set of laws is infallible. Basic logic. The fact is there is a strong correlation between legal guns and higher homicide rates. More Americans are killed by guns every year than all other developed countries combined. No problems with guns I hear you say? Also, inb4 "some countries where it is legal to obtain guns have low crime rates". Using a few examples to justify a larger picture painted by the correlation between gun ownership and higher homicide rates is intellectually dishonest debate fodder.And quite frankly, I am sick of hearing the tired old phrase "guns don't kill people - people do". Yeah, people kill people. But what are my chances of going on a murder spree using a screwdriver vs a loaded gun? Idiots.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

I my point of view guns shoul be benned not only in America but in other countries also. Guns should be used only in military. Let us think why nowadays there are a lot of terrorists, of course because of guns and other veapons. They became available to a society and imagine how many families have suffered from it, how many mothers have losen their child? but anyway they MUST be used in military only. despite the fact that they can damage someones life guns could be the only way to protect us,what the military is succesfuly doing.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

i think guns should be banned but only in public because if guns were banned even in homes then it could be like when they banned alcohol. people would find ways to get guns and hide them from police. not only would it begin another prohibition(except with guns) but the black market would have more things to sell. if we got rid of guns then the police could defend themselves easier
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

Guns have the sole intention to kill people. Rather than this guns aren't used for anything else. While committing a murder with a knife or a bat is considered a misconduct, guns where only designed to kill. Knives and bats were developed for other causes rather than killing. But guns aren't used in any other way. In addition guns are even more lethal than knives because one can accidentally kill someone due to uncontrollable firing. This especially applies to assault rifles and submachine guns that fire multiple rounds per pulling the trigger. Where as with a knife only one person can be targeted. Another point for the gun ban is that people with criminal intentions can easily get access to guns and weapons. America has seen this during the past 20 years the gang violence the frequent gun-related homicides and the brutal massacres such as columbine, Virginia Tech and now New Town Connecticut. By giving these people (or any people at all) access to these weapons multiple people can be killed in just a matter of seconds and most importantly guns can be acquired legally. But for what cause? What could you possibly need a gun for? For hunting but only with a license and any deliberate murder would be considered a misconduct because hunting rifles where intended to kill animals and that is a legitimate cause for killing. But since cannibalism is extremely scarce people say they need guns for protection. But from what? There's the police there's the FBI that protect but just normal residents why do they need guns. Every single time people have a conflict they don't try to peacefully solve the problem. A lot of them would just go crazy, grab their gun and start shooting at the other person they were having their conflict with. If they wouldn't have guns they might think two more times before reverting to the gun. People always think violence is the answer I can assure you it isn't and those that think violence isn't caused by guns but by people they should know that guns foster this violence and even intensify it on a catastrophic scale. The worst part of all is that because of the gun sales and the simplicity of acquiring a weapon, criminal organizations are heavily benefiting from this as well. The Sinaloa cartel and various street gangs can simply order people to purchase weapons for them. If the opportunity weren't there it would be much more difficult for criminal organizations to acquire them. However criminal organizations can still smuggle weapons and get assault weapons but the ban on weapons could lower the murder rate and hinder organizations from bulking up with annihilating firepower. We should act fast and realize that we are protecting ourselves from the same thing that is supposed to protect us. Guns are wrong and we need to find an alternative method. The constant killing has got to stop!
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

As a human I am disgusted as to the fact that people still want to buy guns despite the amount of death they cause. First let me say I am not against the sale of select weapons for hunting and farmers but no one else needs weapons and certainly no one needs fully automatic carbines or 12 gauge shotguns, why would anyone need weapons that are close to and are in some cases military grade?? The line "guns don't kill people, people do" is quite ridiculous as an argument for gun sales since it is "people" that the guns are being sold to!! It is just a case of prevention, remove guns being so easily accessible and you then decrease the gun crime and remove the need for guns to defend yourself. This is common sense, it's the reason why no countries are now allowed to make nuclear weapons, to say people deserve guns do defend themselves is to say places like Iran and North Korea should be able to make nuclear weapons to defend themselves and if you think that then clearly something is wrong
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

I agree that gun should be banned. Guns are really dangerous, they can kill people imediately and people have sentisive emotions. No one can sure that when we are anger we can regulate ourselves with a gun belong. Without a gun, we can fight him, it does not a big matter, but when we use guns, we cannot regret.
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

The Illegalization of fire weapons in the USA is a MUST! Too many innocent people have died already Please act now!
Debate: Should guns be banned in America?
Side: Yes

I believe we should ban guns in America because it's time that we grow up and stop believing we're still living in the Wild West, that we're "Top Gun" fighters! It's time we snap out of our fantasies and paranoia fears that we need more guns to protect us from the other guy when it's pretty obvious that more people are killed within the safety of their own homes due to accidents or domestic altercations. I agree with Pres. Obama that the safety of our children must always comes first and has priority over our so-called constitutional rights to own a gun. We need to stop ENABLING serial killers who want to go down in a blaze of glory while taking innocent children, men, and women down with them. Let's banned all guns, or at least assault weapons (the "Barbie Doll Weapon with Accessories!"). Thank you. Jenny