"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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