Tournament: Colleyville | Round: 4 | Opponent: Prosper AA | Judge: Bekah Boyer
Counterplan Text: Aff actors ought to ban private ownership of firearms in college campuses. KGC: About Us “Gun Lobby Threatens Safety of
America’s Colleges and Universities” by The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus http://keepgunsoffcampus.org/about/
“America’s colleges and...and the community"
Offence: First, the presence of handguns on colleges undermines agonistic discourse. They incite aggression and exclude students from engaging in dialogue out of fear. PHW:
public Health Watch Keeping an Eye on the Public Impact of Modern Politics “Point Blank: Guns Don’t Belong On College Campuses – Here’s Why” March 2014
“In order to...the college experience."
Second, the motive behind a handgun assumes a conception of the criminal, which excludes certain social identities from agonistic relationships. TRIVINGO:
Trivingo ‘13. Franco V. Trivingo Guns and Virtue: The Virtue Ethical Case Against Gun Carrying Public Affairs Quarterly Volume 27 Number 4 10/2013
“For the virtue...or even killed."