Some cliff notes: 

A probable problem with some of the guns in the U.S.?
1) There are 393 million various guns in the U.S.
2) There are roughly 323-325 million U.S. citizens.

Across the country there are roughly 900,000 Police Officers who while performing their duties, get to deal with the criminals, and offenders, who are illegally in possession of an illegal gun, and have used their guns to commit non race on race, and race on race, crimes with? 

So there are more guns in the U.S., than there are U.S. citizens?

There are so many guns, that even when criminals, and offenders aren't supposed to have a gun, these individuals can get a gun by someone selling them on the street.

So the 2nd Amendment, is appreciated by some, and abused by others.

Guns are the other doubled edged sword.

Could it be said, in a sense, that the 2nd Amendment is why there are 393 million guns in the U.S.?

And some of the citizens used the 2nd Amendment, to create a gun violence brutality problem for the rest of the citizens in the country to have to put up with, and live with? 

Like the mass shooters? 
The drive by shooters?
The carjacking shooters? 
The robbery shooters? 
The domestic abuse, and violence shooters?
The murder, suicide shooters?

So, there is a mass illegal gun problem, and a gun violence brutality problem in the U.S?

It sure does seem that way? 

And the best way to reduce the gun related crimes?

Refrain from committing, any gun related crimes altogether.

But what happens, is that some fail to respect themselves, and respect the humanity around them with the same respect, and then the thousands of gun related, gun violence crimes get committed each year. 

@AlofRI

"I often blame religion in general. After all, religions (or their followers) have caused millions of deaths …"

I'm sorry to say this, but you appear to be, just as wrong with your self created individual opinion, as those individual humans are, for causing those millions of deaths, committed by their own actions.

Some humans, who through their individual crimes of: Murder, rape, sexual assaults, mass shootings, drive by shootings, domestic violence and abuses, illegal drug uses, and abuses, and Alcohol abuses, are all self responsible for their own self created actions.

Show me where a Courtroom case, where God, Jesus, or Religion in general, was found guilty of the same crimes, that any criminal, or an offender, co committed against their victims, or multiple victims?

@AlofRI

We paid for the "Truth?"

Did the tax payers pay to have the "Steele Dossier product" created?

Or, wasn't it, paid for by another possible financial entity?

Isn't the "Mueller Report product," a by product, of the Steele Dossier product? 

Did the tax payers pay for how Hillary Clinton treated Bernie Sanders, all the way up to, prior to the DNC, and the GOP Conventions? 

Or, maybe those thousands of emails, were their own form of currency, in how Hillary Clinton treated Bernie Sanders? 

(The Truth,) can speak for itself, when some aren't trying to manipulate, persuade, or coax the voting public, with their own engineered versions of how they want the voting public, to publicly digest their perceived "truths," because some apparently have a version of the "truth" that isn't good enough for the public, when, (The Truth,) itself should be suitable enough to educate the voting public, in a fair and equal manner?

Or if they came here on a temporary visa, and over stayed their visas, are you as well comfortable with that common place practice, of those individuals who are staying in the country illegally, on your tax dollars? 

Are you maybe OK as well, with some of the individuals in your country as well, trying to Socialize your country, with their apparent, (Socialist Ideals?)

Socialize your country, for the illegal immigrants, who have been coming to this country illegally, since the late 1980's?

Do you maybe view those, 300 sanctuary cities, who are, and have been giving sanctuary to those 11-22 million illegal immigrants, are you OK, with that practice, of giving those illegal immigrants sanctuary, while they are in the United States of America, underneath your very noses?

Are you OK, with some of the businesses who are, and have been utilizing those same illegal immigrants, to do work for them, by breaking the IRCA law, that former President Reagan signed into law back in 1986? 

Are you OK, with roughly 300 illegal immigrants, coming into the United States illegally each day?

Some of the ranchers who live along the southern border, have been dealing with, and living with the illegal immigrants who have been coming through their properties for years?

How do you feel about that? (Does is it maybe upset you, or do you maybe view it, as just bad luck, that those ranchers happened to be living, along the Border, where the illegal immigrants come into the country illegally, and are tresspassing into the country illegally as well?

And do those political representatives from both sides of the political aisles, who are apparently maybe pro illegal immigrant in their individual stances, and support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)?

Do they maybe speak for you, or when it comes to your stances on the illegal immigrants and their efforts for coming into the United States illegally, do you feel that they should be rewarded for their law breaking efforts with amnesty? 

https://www-breitbart-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/03/nancy-pelosi-promises-pass-illegal-alien-amnesty-dream-act/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE=#referrer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s&ampshare=https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/03/nancy-pelosi-promises-pass-illegal-alien-amnesty-dream-act/

Some excerpts from the article:

"Nancy Pelosi Promises to Pass Illegal Alien Amnesty via Dream Act"

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) promised over the weekend to pass the Dream Act in the new Congress, which would provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.

Pelosi, who will likely become the next speaker of the House in January, said in a statement on Saturday that she will work to pass the Dream Act with her new House Democrat majority."

“America draws strength from our long, proud heritage as a nation of immigrants. In the Majority, Democrats will work to reverse the Republicans’ destructive anti-immigrant agenda,” Pelosi contended. “Our House Democratic Majority will once again pass the Dream Act to end the uncertainty and fear inflicted on patriotic young men and women across the country.”

Pelosi released the statement in response to a letter from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which urged Pelosi to take up legislation in the first 100 days of the new term to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) illegal aliens and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) refugees. The Hispanic Caucus stressed that any new legislation should include a “pathway to citizenship,” “an end to immigration laws that tear families apart,” an end to the “militarization of our borderlands,” and a “recommitment to our nation’s founding ideals as a place of refuge for those seeking protection at our borders.”

“Undocumented immigrants work hard, obey the laws, and pay taxes. They are our friends and neighbors. They are part of the American social fabric and deserve a pathway to the American dream,” the Hispanic group added in the letter.

Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), one of the lawmakers who signed the letter to Pelosi, told CBS News that Democrats should move “expeditiously” in January to pass legislation to shield illegal immigrants and TPS refugees from deportation, without funding a wall on America’s southern border.

“I think the Dream Act should be taken on alone, with no poison pills attached to it,” Espaillat said.

President Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans contended they could only consider some form of amnesty for illegal aliens if it were tied to wall funding as well as pro-American immigration reform such as E-Verify, ending chain migration, and ending the diversity lottery.

Espaillat said, “These young people are still in limbo. Had it not been for the courts, they would probably be underground. They would be in the shadows.”

So do you find it, fair or unfair, that the 11-22 illegal immigrants illegally living in the country right now deserve amnesty?

They deserve to be rewarded for their years worth of coming into the United States illegally, and at your expense, meaning your tax dollars? 

@Zombieguy1987

You're off topic, labelling someone's response as irrelevant, isn't a proper response.

How about participating in the debate?

And asking you again, do you have anything to add to the debate?

Here is the theme:

Who won the Government shutdown?

If you maybe have an issue, you can take it up with Aarong?