Originally posted by beezzer
Hey, Intrepid! You still around? (or aboot? Since you're Canadian )

Just an idea.

We get a team of people on defense, and a team for prosecution, but in the end, ATS does one of their polls for a yay or nay vote on their presentations?

Whatdoyathink?

If you go with this format it will be a kangaroo court,

Without even reading the arguments both sides will automatically vote for their preconceived ideas and since most of the site is American and it will mainly be Americans who are interested I can tell you now 90% will vote the defence won.

I think get 10 volunteers for jury duty and both the prosecution and defence can check their post history to see if they are in fact impartial or at least not rabid one way or the other.

I'll volunteer for jury duty again.

If that is how it ends up working out.

Originally posted by beezzer

Originally posted by NightFlight
How will the "court" take into account that Newtown was a false flag psy-ops operation? Or, is that one of the premises you wish to prove or disprove?

If it is indeed the second amendment that is on trial, will all tragic shootings be taken into account? With what premise will you charge the court?

I wish the court to decide the validity of the 2nd Amendment.

Simply put.

We hold this truth to be self-evident, and historically substantiated time and time again, that all governments become corrupted after a time. We the people of the United States must have the right to defend ourselves when the time comes that our government will act against the people, instead of for the people.

It is not only the Right of every American citizen to arm themselves against such an event, it is their obligation to arm themselves to the teeth in order to remind the holders of public office that their authority is not god-given, but people-given, and that they can be removed when civilized debate no longer inspires them to represent the people.

S&F Beeze-buddy.

So Beez how stands things?

Whats the format gonna be?

Im assume your working on it now

May I approach the bench and submit my ideas?
Thank you your honor

Ok get X people acting as prosecution and defence, maybe 3 each and 10 jurors, witnesses are called in the form of youtube vids totalling no more than 10 min.

Start a new thread and the OP sets the topic and format, we're arguing for or against the 2nd amendment and nothing else.
Each "lawyer" puts forth their case, in turn. Get a mod involved to delete any comments that arent relevant to the debate and to remove posts from people who arent involved,

After each has had their say they can post their vids, after the vids each "Lawyer can put forth a final closing argument. After which the jury deliver their verdict, In the likely case of a tie you will decide the most convincing argument, trying to be as impartial as possible of course

Maybe if we did something like this it may take some of the fire out of the argument, hopefully every 2nd thread wont be gun related and ATS can go back to its usually craziness. I know Im being overly optomistic in that hope but we can dream.

So you gonna make this happen or what?
How the numbers looking for each side?

If not mistaken theres wrabbit, Jigger and tdawg for the defence
So far me and Superman for the prosecution (As if a side with superman can lose)

Also 2 jury members

Anyone else wanna play?

I would like to participate as well but my opinons are very biased.
Beezzer,I will let you decide what I can do.

Originally posted by GArnold

"Half of all the mass shootings in the history of the United States have occurred since the assault gun ban expired in 2005."
Bill Clinton

I see what you did there and it was sneaky.

The assault weapons ban was from 94 to 04. A 10 year ban. You forgot to leave out that little tidbit.

Originally posted by mamabeth
I would like to participate as well but my opinons are very biased.
Beezzer,I will let you decide what I can do.

This pretty much speaks for me too Beezer. I'll participate, but may get banned, if not in a role that keeps me in the background. I've got 62 years of Patriotic blood flowing through my veins.

Des