In conclusion, people need to have guns to protect themselves. You might think that guns cause more crimes, but when you look at the statistics and arguments against this, you will start to see that guns can save lives. They help people feel safer, reduce the number of crimes, and allow people to have a fair chance against criminals with guns.

Another point is that guns can help to stop shootings in public places. For example After the Apr. 20, 1999 Columbine High School massacre, the state of Colorado enacted the 2003 Concealed Carry Act to allow law-abiding citizens the right to carry a concealed weapon. The CATO Institute concluded that this law helped to stop a massacre at the New Life megachurch in Dec. 2007 when a volunteer security guard for the church who was carrying a concealed handgun shot an attacker who had opened fire in the church.

Another point is that people with guns are more careful and aware of what they are doing. According to a 2000 report by engineering statistician William Sturdevant, in Texas the general public is 5.3 times more likely to be arrested for violent offenses and 14 times more likely to be arrested for nonviolent offenses than concealed carry weapon permit holders.

Another point is that women need to be able to protect themselves from being attacked, raped, etc. In Florida, the percentage of concealed handgun permit holders who are female rose from 15% in 2004 to 23% in 2014. One of these female permit holders stated that women "need to be able to defend their home and defend themselves if they go out. It's just a safety issue."

Another point is that if you use a gun to defend yourself, you are less likely to get injured. A study by criminologist Gary Kleck, PhD, concluded that "robbery and assault victims who used a gun to resist were less likely to be attacked or to suffer an injury than those who used any other methods of self-protection."

This is not the case in a 2013 peer-reviewed study in Applied Economic Letters, which found that between 1980 and 2009, "states with more restrictive CCW [carrying concealed weapons] laws had gun-related murder rates that were 10% higher."

You could take martial arts, but I doubt that knowing karate is going to stop an illegal criminal with a gun from shooting you...

Well this is not what the following court ruled to be correct.

Another point is that carrying a gun helps people feel safer, even if they aren't using it. According to a 2001 study by the National Opinion Research Center, 59% of people who carry a gun outside the home do so because it makes them feel safer.

Actually, police are just there to investigate the crime and solve it after it happens, and do little to prevent it. Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack said, "police do very little to prevent violent crime. We investigate crime after the fact."

First of all, this argument is about America, not Britain. Second of all, I would like to see the source where you found this information. Third of all, most of these "guns" that you are talking about, aren't speaking of citizens with permits carrying guns, but of criminals who have guns.

You say that the criminal is more likely to kill you, but a peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology found that when someone draws a concealed gun in self-defense, the criminal retreats 55.5% of the time.

The Christian Science Monitor reported that "the number of incidents in which concealed gun carriers kill innocent people is a fraction of 1 percent of all gun-related homicides."

The federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, in the Dec. 11, 2012 case Moore v. Madigan, ruled 2-1 that the Second Amendment's right to bear arms "must be interpreted to include a right to have a concealed gun in public, to have it ready for use, and to have it for self-defense."

The first point we are going to talk about is that guns help to prevent crimes. John Lott, PhD, wrote a book in which he calculated that between the years of 1977 and 1992, 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults, and 12,000 robberies could have been prevented IF concealed carry laws had been legal.

Hello, today we’re here to talk about a major controversy in America. Almost everyday, you see or hear something bad about people with guns. But really, guns aren’t bad as long as the person’s intention isn’t bad, and we think people like this should be allowed to own guns. Our opponents are going to tell you that this is wrong because guns put people more at risk, increase the number of crimes, and make people uncomfortable. But we are here to tell you that this is wrong. In reality, guns help to prevent crimes, scare away criminals, make people feel safe, and allow people to have a chance against criminals with guns. After hearing us argue these facts, I believe that you will stand with us when we say that people should have the right to own guns.

Hello, today we’re here to talk about a major controversy in America. Almost everyday, you see or hear something bad about people with guns. But really, guns aren’t bad as long as the person’s intention isn’t bad, and we think people like this should be allowed to own guns. Our opponents are going to tell you that this is wrong because guns put people more at risk, increase the number of crimes, and make people uncomfortable. But we are here to tell you that this is wrong. In reality, guns help to prevent crimes, scare away criminals, make people feel safe, and allow people to have a chance against criminals with guns. After hearing us argue these facts, I believe that you will stand with us when we say that people should have the right to own guns.

Here is an article that talks about how space exploration is a waste of money and is not beneficial.

I think that this is a waste of money because we have so many problems on Earth which could be solved with the money we waste each year on space exploration.