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"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
--Sigmond Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall."
--Adolf Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938
"This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future"
--Adolf Hitler, Berlin Daily, April 15, 1935
" Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a Socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
-- Sarah Brady (President of Handgun Control, Inc.) to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, The National Educator, January, 1994, Page 3.
"He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one"
--Jesus Christ, Luke Ch 22:36
"When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace"
--Luke Ch 11:21-22
"{This} government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen"
--Warren vs District of Columbia, 444 A.2nd 1 (D.C. App. 181)
"In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the 'collective' rights of the states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of 'the people' to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis"
--Stephen P. Halbrook, highly repected Constitutional scholar
"The states' rights reading puts great weight on the word 'militia', but this word appears only in the Amendment's subordinate clause {for those of you who know something about grammer, the text of the Second Amendment fully supports the INDIVIDUAL right to keep and bear arms}. The ultimate right to keep and bear arms belongs to 'the people' not 'the states.' As the language of the Tenth Amendment shows, these two are of course not identical when the constitution means 'states' it says so. Thus as noted above, 'the people' at the core of the Second Amendment are the same 'people' at the heart of the Preamble and the First Amendment, namely citizens."
--Akil Amar, PhD, Professor of Law, Yale University, and highly respected Constitutional scholar
"For the point to be made with respect to Congress and the Second Amendment is that the essential claim advanced by the NRA with respect to the Second Amendment is extremely strong. The conservative role of the NRA today, like the role of the ACLU in the 1920's with respect to the First Amendment, ought itself not to be dismissed lightly"
--William Van Alstyne, PhD, Professor of Law, Duke University, highly respected Constitutional scholar
"The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification {before anti-gun liberals}, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner"
--United States Senate Judiciary Committee,
Subcommittee Report on the Constitution, February, 1992
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