i have to debate why i favor the second amendment. what are some points i need to make? and what possible points would the other team bring up that i need to prepare for? any information is appreciated. thanks for your help.
2006-09-18 09:46:51 · 6 answers · asked by shih rips 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Finally a question I can really answer.
O.K. I would talk about why the founding fathers put the Second Amendment in the Constitution in the first place (if you don't know here they are). 1) The first reason is for the security of America in case of invasion. If a nation invaded the U.S. they would have to face the might of our military plus an additional 300 million armed citizens, which is no easy task.
Examples of this in effect are the American Revolution, Once Britain became militarily involved with the colonies the citizens were armed and were able to defeat them. You could also use the War in Iraq as an example. The U.S. defeated the national army in a little over a month, and now we are fighting nothing more than armed civilians which are putting up a tough fight.
The second and most important reason the framers of the Constitution added the second amendment was for the security of freedom. Every (good)dictator immeadiantly banns all civilans firearms when he takes control of a country/region. Why? Because people are much, much easier to supress when they have no means of retaliation.
There are a lot of examples to support this. In 1942 Adolf Hitler once said that..."The 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". Here Hitler is litterally saying that to oppress people you need to take away their guns.
There are several occasions in history where this as proven unfortuneatly true...
In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929-1953, approx.
20 million people were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians were rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938. From 1939-1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies and others were rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948-1952, 20 million political
dissidents were rounded up and exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. from 1964-1981, 100,000 Mayan
Indians were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971-1979, 300,000 Christians
were rounded up and exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975-1977, one million “educated” people were rounded up and exterminated.
That places total victims who lost their lives because they couldn't defend themselves because of gun control at approximately 56 million in the last century. This is a pretty good argument as to why we need firearms.
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What your opponent(s) will say may be something like these facts. "That Britain has guns banned and has lowered their crime rate." Well this is true but If you look where anti-gunners don't want you to you will discover that Britain never really had high gun crime in the first place.
How to counter this: California has the strictest gun control in the country and yet has the most gangs, gang members and gun crime. New York City has high gun control as well, and also has high gang rates, and gun crime rates as well. So you could argue that the more gun control imposed higher the gun crime in that area.
I hope this helps you and your debate, if you have any questions please feel free to contact me from Y! Answers or at my e-mail akkid89@yahoo.com.
2006-09-18 12:27:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, NRA.com or Gun Owners of America are excellent resources for information. As a proud member of both (one a little more than the other, I must confess) gun laws only hurt law abiding citizens. Most homes in the US have a gun in them, and most of those guns are for the most primitive of protections, that is, protection of the home and family. If a law is enacted tomorrow for all gun owners to turn in their guns, all these people who have guns in their homes for protection will be the ones who abide by the law. Your average criminal has a gun, but they have no regard for the law, therefore, they wouldn't dare turn in their guns. So what you would have is a society of unarmed, law abiding citizens, with no way to protect themselves against a criminal with a gun. Criminals would have the run of the country, unabaited, and your only form of lethal defense would be to hope the cops show up before your wife and kids are murdered. You could also point out how gun control is a total failure in every society it has been introduced in. Canada's gun control scheme was a financial disaster, and Brazil bordered on martial law for a time. Gun control doesn't work. Never has, never will. Never.
2006-09-18 10:00:58 · answer #2 · answered by dgindiansfan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In england where gun control went wild.
Its illegal to shoot a burgler breaking into your home, even if he is trying to kill you.
Gun control no matter how well intentioned only serves to help criminals to get/retain guns they will have no matter what laws are out there.
Most gun crime is by criminals not by legal gun owners.
2006-09-18 09:56:47 · answer #3 · answered by pcreamer2000 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gun control is being able to hit your target. Multiple times.
2006-09-18 09:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If we ban guns, only criminals will have them. That's how it is in NY.
2006-09-18 09:50:05 · answer #5 · answered by johnnylakis 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NRA.com?
2006-09-18 09:48:41 · answer #6 · answered by surftele 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋