all gun control is unconstitutional
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In my opinion, most of this debate was not germane to the subject of discussion. Instead of arguing the legality of restricting guns, most of it seemed to be oriented around two main points:
1. The purpose of the Second Amendment
2. The practicality of removing all forms of gun control.
I feel like one of the debaters could have tried to make the first point relevant by reconciling the wording of the Second Amendment with its original intentions, but neither debater accomplished this, in my opinion.
As for the meat of the debate, Con effectively referenced an 1876 court ruling which clearly empowers state governments to impose restrictions on different types of arms. In his response, Pro effectively concedes the debate when he admits that the states are empowered to pass gun control. In admitting this, I, as the voter, can only side with Con. The statement "all gun control is unconstitutional" is simply not true when one observes the power of individual states to pass gun control legislation, as Con argued. Pro attempted to respond to this point, but it kind of confused me. He insists that "they [the government] may only do so [legally pass gun control] through a constitutional amendment, which has not been done," even though Con clearly outlined how the Supreme Court gave an interpretation of the constitution which empowered the states to pass gun control. I feel like a prompt along the lines of "all federal gun control measures are unconstitutional" would be a more interesting subject for a future debate.