Category: Quote O’ The Day

If you believe in so-called “Gun Control”, then you believe that the Second Amendment, ratified in 1787, specifically and exclusively refers to the National Guard, which was created 130 years later, in 1917.

If you believe in so-called “Gun Control”, then you believe that the National Guard, federally funded, with bases on federal land, using federally-owned weapons, vehicles, buildings, and uniforms, punishing trespassers under federal law, is a “State” militia.

If you believe in so-called “Gun Control”, then you believe that private citizens shouldn’t have handguns because they are not “military weapons,” but private citizens shouldn’t have assault rifles because they are military weapons.

If you believe in so-called “Gun Control”, then you believe that “Assault Weapons” have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of people. The police need assault weapons. You do not.

No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved in its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defence of the state. . . . Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
– “M.T. Cicero” 1788

“…The right of the people peacefully to assemble for lawful purposes existed long before the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. In fact, it is and always has been one of the attributes of a free government.

It `derives its source,’ to use the language of Chief Justice Marshall, in Gibbons v Ogden, 9 Wheat., 211, `from those laws whose authority is acknowledged by civilized man throughout the world.‘

It is found wherever civilization exists. It was not, therefore, a right granted to the people by the Constitution… The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of `bearing arms for a lawful purpose.’ This is not a right granted by the constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.” 
– U.S. v. Cruikshank (1875)

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective for the abuse of constitutional power.
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to W.C. Jarvis, 1820.

Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him, and later he won’t listen to you at any range. — Auliq Ice

“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
John Parker, Captain of the Lexington Militia, to his company facing British troops on Lexington Common Green.

Almost everyday someone on MSNBC wets himself over the fact a free citizen somewhere is carrying a gun. Their proposed solution: the State should better enforce its monopoly on violence. — Jonah Goldberg

In a way, the continuing gun control controversy is much like the prohibition problem in Oklahoma in the fifties and sixties. It was the belief of many that prohibitionists and bootleggers were united in their efforts to prevent the legal sale of alcoholic beverages. In gun control, those who can afford private alarm systems and bodyguards are united with criminals in their desire to keep guns out of the hands of honest citizens.
— Bill Dannenmaier

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy. — Thomas Sowell

When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state…this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people. –P. J. O’Rourke

Having Constitutional Carry is rapidly becoming the bright line that separates free states from those run by would-be totalitarians. – Streiff

For some reason I’m thinking a country that kills its own citizens by the thousands for defying them & screams “Death to America” may not possess the ability to “Negotiate in good faith”. Excuse me for my lack of optimism