Opening Statement: Today we will be talking about whether Americans have the right to own a gun with proper restrictions. Our opponents will point out that a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time or that citizens don’t need to carry a gun for personal protection but police officers do. Our first point that we are trying to prove is that banning guns does not do anything. They attempted this is Chicago, making it virtually impossible to get a concealed carry permit, however, Chicago was the murder capital of the US that year. Another point is that guns allow the victims to defend themselves. Did you know that guns save more live than they take; preventing more injuries. Another point is that the police cannot protect and are not required to protect every individual. The courts have consistently ruled that the police do not have an obligation to protect individuals, only the public in general. Another point is that concealed carry laws helped reduce crime. Of the 383,400 citizens who have received permits to carry their guns concealed, only 72 people have used their gun to commit a crime according to the Florida Department of State. Overall, ownership of guns should be allowed.

That is not true that more guns equal more deaths . It is actually the opposite! In this article , written by Susan Williams , 67, Carpinteria , California , states that the gun that she has saves her life . Not from human though ! From animals as she states “We have coyotes, rattlesnakes and packs of dogs that roam around,” Williams said. “The coyotes I’ll shoot near if they try to come at my dogs or me, because they don’t seem to respond to yelling and throwing rocks at them.” "Why I Carry a Gun." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 27 May 2015.

According the Federalist writer Sean Davis, economic policy adviser to Gov. Rick Perry, as CFO of Daily Caller, and as chief investigator for Sen. Tom Coburn.Until recently, the Chicago banned any and all transfers or sales of handguns (It was virtually impossible to get a concealed carry permit). Chicago became the murder capital of the U.S. in 2012. Gun owners in nation's third-largest city no longer register firearms which allows police to track guns

Law abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals 2.5 million times every year, 6,850 times a day. (Gary Kleck, Marc Gertz, Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun, 86 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 150 (1995-1996). Each year, firearms are used more than 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. (According to the National Safety Council, the total number of gun deaths (by accidents, suicides and homicides) account for less than 40,000 deaths per year). Out of those 2.5 million self-defense cases, more than 200,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse. The majority wave their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound their attacker. ((Gary Kleck, Marc Gertz, Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun, 86 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 150 (1995-1996))

Police cannot protect -- and are not required to protect -- every individual, so why should we rely on them to protect our lives every time we are in trouble. The courts consistently ruled that the police do not have an obligation to protect individuals, only the public in general. Warren v. District of Columbia is one of the leading cases of this type. Two women were upstairs in a townhouse when they heard their roommate, a third woman, being attacked downstairs by intruders. They phoned the police several times and were assured that officers were on the way. After about 30 minutes, when their roommate's screams had stopped, they assumed the police had finally arrived. When the two women went downstairs they saw that in fact the police never came, but the intruders were still there. As the Warren court graphically states in the opinion: "For the next fourteen hours the women were held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of their attackers." The three women sued the District of Columbia for failing to protect them, but D.C.'s highest court exonerated the District and its police, saying that it is a "fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." (Warren v. District of Columbia, D.C. App., 444 A. 2d 1). So again why should the lives of innocent people be taken away because people that are against guns say that we should.

People these days are not only dying from guns! In the years 0f 2013 and 2015 , more people have died from alcohol -impaired driving crashes than of shootings.In 2015 there have been 485 deaths because the shotting was used as a defensive use. The number of deaths due to alcohol impaired driving is 10,076 deaths. 2)http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

1)http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/ impaired driving/impaired-drvfactsheet.html

Gun Restrictions in The District Of Columbia

Shelly Parker

A software designer and former nurse who had been active in trying to rid her neighborhood of drugs. Parker is a single woman whose life had been threatened on numerous occasions by drug dealers who had sometimes tried to break into her house.[8][9]

Tom G. Palmer

A colleague of Robert A. Levy at the Cato Institute and the only plaintiff that Levy knew before the case began.[7] Palmer, who is gay, defended himself with a 9mm handgun in 1982. While walking with a friend in San Jose, California, he was accosted by a gang of about 20 young men who used profane language regarding his sexual orientation and threatened his life. When he produced his gun, the men fled. Palmer believes that the handgun saved his life.[10][11]

Gillian St. Lawrence

A mortgage broker who lives in the Georgetown section of D.C. and who owns several legally registered long guns which she uses for recreation in nearby Chantilly, Virginia. It had taken St. Lawrence two years to complete the registration process. She wanted to be able to use these guns to defend herself in her home and to be able to register a handgun.[12][13]

Tracey Ambeau (now Tracey Hanson)

An employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Originally from St. Gabriel, Louisiana, she lives in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of D.C. with her husband, Andrew Hanson, who is from Waterloo, Iowa. They live in a high-crime neighborhood near Union Station in D. C. She grew up around guns and wanted one to defend her home.[14][12]

George Lyon

A communications lawyer who had previously contacted the National Rifle Association about filing a lawsuit to challenge the D.C. gun laws. Lyon held D.C. licenses for a shotgun and a rifle, but wanted to have a handgun in his home.[15]

Dick Heller

A licensed special police officer for the District of Columbia. For his job, Heller carried a gun in federal office buildings, but was not allowed to have one in his home.[16] Heller had lived in southeast D.C. near the Kentucky Courts public housing complex since 1970 and had seen the neighborhood "transformed from a child-friendly welfare complex to a drug haven". Heller had also approached the National Rifle Association about a lawsuit to overturn the D.C. gun ban, but the NRA declined

Maybe you should take a look at this and read to see some of the people that have argued in the recent poll for District Columbia allowing guns in their personal home. All of the people listed above have agreed to allow their information to be used.