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Debate: DC handgun ban
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- Debate: Right to bear arms in the US
- Argument: A DC handgun ban is a reasonable measure against high gun violence
- Argument: "Arms" falling under the 2nd Amendment can be regulated but not banned
- Argument: The constitution confers an individual right to keep and bear arms
- Argument: 2nd Amendment conferred an individual right to defend against various historical threats
- Argument: If 2nd amendment applied only to militias it would be useless today
- Argument: 2nd amendment cannot offer a right to form a militia when Congress can disarm it
- Argument: If the 2nd amendment was to protect an individual right it would have clearly expressed it
- Argument: Handguns should be banned due to their uniquely dangerous concealability
- Argument: Banning one class of arms does not violate an individual right to bear arms
- Argument: The right to "bear arms" in the 2nd Amendment includes an individual right
- Argument: A handgun ban deprives citizens of the most common self-defense weapon
- Argument: A handgun ban serves to weaken US military preparedness
- Argument: If 2nd Amendment aims only at military preparedness, guns should be available for training only
- Argument: No US citizens are in a militia and so none have a right to keep and bear arms
- Argument: A constitutional right to bear arms is not subject to reasonableness standards
- Argument: DC's handgun ban threatens citizens' ability to defend themselves on the streets
- Argument: The 2nd Amendment does not express a right to bear arms for self-defense
- Argument: Gun restrictions and bans disadvantage citizens against armed criminals
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