Lincoln-Douglas Debate format: Planning Sheet

Affirmative: Constructive speech

Luis Alberto Castellanos
Affirmative speaker 1: ___Luis Alberto______ (prepare speech)
Why The United States has so many shootings?
Well trough many investigation I find out that: One in four

adultsapproximately 61.5 million Americansexperiences mental

illness in a given year. One in 17about 13.6 millionlive with a serious
mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depression or bipolar
disorder.
Negative: Questions for Affirmative side
Negative speaker 1: _______________ (prepare questions)
Affirmative speaker 1: ___luis Alberto question The constitution shows that
The United States can not ban the right to have guns to their citizens?___ (improvise
well) Well our solution is no to ban the selling of guns but to have a gun control which
means to realize studies to the buyers to identify if they are suitable for buying guns.
Negative. Constructive speech
Negative speaker 1: ____________________________ (prepare speech)
Negative: Refutation
Negative speaker 2: ____________________________ (prepare refutation and
improvise well)
Affirmative: Questions for Negative side
Affirmative speaker 2: __Carlo Martinez__________________________
(prepare questions) you think theres no need to have a gun control after showing all
these mental disorders?
Why there are more American deaths caused by themselves than deaths caused by the
terrorists?

Negative speaker 2: ____________________________ (improvise well)

Affirmative: Rebuttal and/or refutation

Affirmative speaker 3: __________Jorge _________________ (prepare
rebuttal and improvise well) As a team we think that The United States can not ban the
guns to its citizens as is in their constitution, but they can and they should change
something in order to prevent mass shootings; as we wrote before, our proposal is to
establish extreme gun controls, as mental studies, before and after they get the weapons
also the study should be done periodically each month.
Negative: Rebuttal
Negative speaker 1 (or 3): ____________________________ (prepare rebuttal and
improvise well)
Negative: Summary
Negative speaker 2 (or 3): ____________________________ (prepare summary)
Affirmative: Rebuttal
Affirmative speaker 2: _____________jorge_______________ (prepare
rebuttal andimprovise well) These and other measures will first decrease drastically the
number of mass murders, and after a while these measures will be improved and improved
until it becomes a perfect system to prevent mass murders.