The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. – John Adams
Category: Quote O’ The Day
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
— ROBERT HEINLEIN
Never Shoot to Kill. Always Shoot to Live.
If an attacker were in your home right now, what is more likely to prevent your murder—a gun control law or a law against murder, or a gun?
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
A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. — Shane
Liberalizing concealed carry laws won’t lead to a return to the Wild West – though it wouldn’t be bad if it did. … in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capital robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City’s. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown. — David Kopel
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
Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. – Joseph T. Chew
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.
Liberalizing concealed carry laws won’t lead to a return to the Wild West – though it wouldn’t be bad if it did. … in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capital robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City’s. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown. — David Kopel
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About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern.
But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter.
If all men are created equal, that is final.
If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final.
If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.
Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress.
They are reactionary.
Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers…………………
What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain’t no intelligent life down here. — Julie Cochrane
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is a distinction between a freeman and slave.
— James Burgh
Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be.
– U.S. Supreme Court in Westbrook v. Mihaly 2 C3d 756
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. -Thomas Jefferson
Hypocrisy is believing the First Amendment protects flag burning, but the Second Amendment doesn’t protect owning an AR-15.–unattributed
If you have a problem with law abiding citizens being armed, then you are the reason why law abiding citizens are armed.-unattributed
Without freedom there will be no firearms among the people; without firearms among the people there will not long be freedom. Certainly there are examples of countries where the people remain relatively free after the people have been disarmed, but there are no examples of a totalitarian state being created or existing where the people have personal arms.
— Neal Knox
If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government that is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. — JAMES MADISON
The bias against armed self-defense is one of the most insidious forms of victimization of women. — Dr. Michael S. Brown