Instigator / Pro
0
1294
rating
75
debates
18.0%
won
Topic
#1521

Less households have guns in them now than 30 years ago, one of the reasons there is less violence

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
15
Better sources
0
10
Better legibility
0
5
Better conduct
0
5

After 5 votes and with 35 points ahead, the winner is...

Ramshutu
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
35
1764
rating
43
debates
94.19%
won
Description

Households with guns are considerably down from previous decades. In surveys conducted in the first half of the 1990s, Gallup discovered that on average 48% of Americans lived in households with guns. The GSS showed a similar 45% during that stretch.
Since that time, Gallup has found an average of 41% of households with at least one gun compared with 35% of the GSS. Both of those are within a few percentage points of the average for this decade (41% for Gallup and 33% for the GSS). In other words, there was a sharp trend downward in gun ownership during the 1990s, which has since stopped.https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/guns-dont-know-how-many-america/index.html

Round 1
Pro
#1
Forfeited
Con
#2
Correlation is not causation. While there is broad correlation between fall in crime rate and gun ownership, this does not imply or necessitate causal relationship. Rates of smoking have also been declining, economic inequality has also accelerated in this time frame - this does not mean these are a cause of decreased gun ownership any more than crime rates. 

Round 2
Pro
#3
Forfeited
Con
#4
Extend.
Round 3
Pro
#5
Forfeited
Con
#6
Extend