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If you're not a supporter of the 2nd Amendment... maybe these thoughts will help convince you.
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| The Marine rule for a gunfight is 'Bring a gun. Bring two guns. If you have friends with guns bring them. If you have friends without guns, go get them some guns and bring them.' | ||||
| Last century over 170 million people were murdered by their own governments, and your government doesn't want you to have a gun. Doesn't that bother you just a little? | ||||
| Liberal: 'Why don't you gun nuts go start your own country?'<BR>Gun nut: 'We did. Who the hell let *you* in here?' | ||||
| An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. | ||||
| Gun control is not about guns; it's about control. | ||||
| If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words. | ||||
| 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, 1935 | |||
| The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. | Alexander Hamilton | |||
| Not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed. | Daniel Polsby and Don Kates | |||
| If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. | Edward Abbey | |||
| The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy .... If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. | Edward Abbey | |||
| To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to enslave them. | George Mason | |||
| People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. | George Orwell | |||
| A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. | George Washington | |||
| The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference--they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. | George Washington | |||
| Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA. Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. | Heinrich Himmler | |||
| The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose. | James Earl Jones | |||
| Americans have the right and advantage of being armed--unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. | James Madison | |||
| In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in. | Jeff Cooper | |||
| The First Rule in a Gunfight: Have a gun. If you violate this rule, no other rules apply. | Jeff Cooper | |||
| Ideas are more powerful than guns. If we don't let our people have guns, why should we let them have ideas? | Josef Stalin | |||
| If an armed lunatic takes over my airplane, I am fundamentally not interested in handgun-control rhetoric. What I am concerned with is just one thing: stepping over a dead hijacker as I exit my safely-landed airplane. | Kathleen Parker | |||
| Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. | Mahatma Gandhi | |||
| They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? | Paul Harvey | |||
| To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. | Richard Henry Lee | |||
| An armed society is a polite society. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| The licensing of weapons is subversive of liberty and self-defeating in its pious purpose. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Suppose the Second Amendment said 'A well-educated electorate being necessary for self-governance in a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed.' Is there anyone who would suggest that means only registered voters have a right to read? | Robert Levy, Georgetown University | |||
| A man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition. | Rudyard Kipling | |||
| The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. | Samuel Adams | |||
| Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est. ("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.") | Seneca the Younger | |||
| The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other type of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to permit uprising. | Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1558 | |||
| Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who don't. | Tench Coxe | |||
| Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. An unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. | Thomas Jefferson | |||
| The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people... that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. | Thomas Jefferson | |||
| The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. | Thomas Jefferson | |||
| The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. | Thomas Jefferson. | |||
| When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all. | Tim Freeman | |||
| Professional, well-executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. | USMC Gen. (ret.) Richard E. Hawley | |||
| Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire. | USMC Maj. (ret.) Jim McDonough | |||
| A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | |||
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