"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns."

Edward Abbey


"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."

 Patrick Henry

"Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"

Patrick Henry, Source: [3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836]


"Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised."

Niccolo Machiavelli


"To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them."

George Mason


"This country was founded by religious nuts with guns."

P.J. O'Rourke


"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the 
symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."

George Orwell, Source: Orwell: The Authorized Biography, Michael Shelden, (New York:
HarperCollins Publishers, 1991), p. 328

"The United Nations gun-grabbers don't care about our Constitution and they don't care about national sovereignty. The UN always wants to expand its power, and global gun control goes hand-in-hand with global government. Every American who cares about the 2nd Amendment should oppose this latest UN attempt to dictate our domestic laws. There is no question that the UN ultimately seeks to impose worldwide gun control, although it has no legal or moral authority to do so."

Rep. Ron Paul


"We are running out of tests that we can afford to fail. Gun registration may be the last one. If we let them do this to us, we deserve what we get."

Michael Peirce


"Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common folk. ...Nevertheless, if the urban insane wish to be prey for predators, that's their privilege. But no one has the right to tell someone else that he or she cannot possess the tools necessary to defend his or her life and the lives of loved ones."

Charley Reese


"...(T)o ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. ... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding."

Jeff Snyder, Source: "Who's Under Assault in the 'Assault Weapon' Ban?", American Rifleman, October 1994, p. 53; excerpted from the Washington Times, August 25, 1994

"Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control."

Joseph Sobran


"When you read in the newspaper that the government has taken Walter Williams' guns, then
you will know that Walter Williams is dead."

Walter Williams


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