Debatepedia partners with The People Speak Global Debates and the The National Debate Series: Boston (Nov. 10)
Debate Digest Nov 19th: Medical marijuana. Next Debate Digest article: Trying 9/11 terror suspects in NYC courts

From Debatepedia

Parent Debate

• Should handguns be banned in Washington DC?

Supporting Evidence

• Jeffrey Snyder, "Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun" "The overwhelming weight of modern legal and historical scholarship regarding the Second Amendment, however, is that the amendment affirms an individual right to keep and bear private arms. [58] As summarized by the historian Joyce Lee Malcolm:

"The Second Amendment was meant to accomplish two distinct goals, each perceived as crucial to the maintenance of liberty. First, it was meant to guarantee the individual's right to have arms for self-defense and self-preservation. Such an individual right was a legacy of the English bill of rights. This is also plain from American colonial practice, the debates over the constitution, and state proposals for what was to become the Second Amendment..."

Supporting videos