Instructions - Gun Control
Debate Question: Resolved: That the federal government should prohibit individuals from privately owning any form of a handgun.

Note: Since 1962, more than one million Americans have died in firearm homicides, suicides, and unintentional shootings. Handguns were used in more than 650,000 of these fatal shootings.(7) Data sources: Fatal Firearm Injuries in the United States 1962-1994. Violence Surveillance Summary Series, No. 3, 1997. And Deaths: Final Data for 1995, Deaths: Final Data for 1996, Deaths: Final Data for 1997. National Vital Statistics Report.

Nature of Debate

• This is an interactive webpage
• As a student you will participate in this debate
• You will be provided some reading materials reading assignments
• The following classes and schools are participating in this debate
• You will then develop, and post to "arguments: both a Pro and Con Gun Control Argument
• Finally, you will choose a Pro-Gun Control Argument of another student and argue against it, and a Con-Gun Control Argument of another student and argue against it
  
  updated: 4/11/00