8th grade Amendment debates

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."