Ooh! A REAL debate? Like, with a neutral moderator, a single proposition to be argued, and the audience voting on who won afterwards?
You know these things they call “debates” these days aren’t actually debates. Point of fact, there probably hasn’t been an honest-to-goodness debate in American political life since the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Let’s try this on for size:
Resolved: That the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States unambiguously protects the personal and natural right of a citizen to bear arms in defense of oneself, one’s relatives and acquaintances, and one’s home, business, and chattels, against any attempted depredation of same by any private person or government agency, and furthermore expressly denies to the Federal Government the ability to infringe upon that right in any way, including, but not limited to, acts of Congress, regulations of the Federal bureaucracy, or executive order of the President. Mr. Obama will argue against, Mr. LaPierre will argue in favor. Mr. Obama, as the challenged party, you will present your arguments first. You have twenty minutes. Mr. LaPierre will have 20 minutes to rebut, following which each party will then have five minutes for closing arguments, after which the audience will vote by show of hands.
Sadly, I’m guessing neither one of them was on the debate team in school.