"No clause in the
Constitution could by any any rule of construction be
conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the
people."
--William Rawle, A View
of the Constitution (1829) |
“We’ve seen it happen in other countries across the
world, and we know totalitarian governments see
ownership of firearms as a liability they just can’t
afford.”
--Schaeffer Cox,
www.newsminer.com |
"When the representative
body have lost the confidence of the constituents, when
they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable
rights, when they have assumed powers which the people
never put in their hands, then, indeed, their continuing
in office becomes dangerous to the State, and calls for
an exercise of ... [the]
... power of dissolution."
--Thomas
Jefferson (1774) |
"Instead of gun free zones deterring criminals, they
actually serve as a magnet for them."
--Prof. John Lott,
www.bighollywood.breitbart.com |
"We must never insult
and degrade the spirits of our Founding Fathers by
permitting the Second Amendment, the pillar of freedom,
to be destroyed by the cold flame of legislative ink."
Gus Cotey, Jr.,
JPFO.org, 2009 |
"Disarming people — slaves and Indians in early America,
Jews in Nazi
Germany, etc. — has always made them more vulnerable,
not safer.
... The most effective way to minimize ... violence … is
to recognize
the natural right of people ... to defend their own
lives."
--Henry Heymering, Maryland SAS Member |
“If someone has a gun
and is trying to kill you, it would
be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
--The Dalai Lama |
"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 |
"The more
law-abiding people that have guns, the better off we
are. ... Because the bad guys always have guns. ... You
look at these school shootings or church shootings, the
ones that have been stopped, it was because someone
there had a gun."
--Joe Deters, Hamilton County
Ohio Prosecutor |
"The great objective is that every man be armed.
... Everyone who is able may
have a gun."
--Patrick Henry, Virginia Convention |
"We have to
be very careful when we start abridging rights that the
Founding Fathers thought very important. ...There might
be circumstances that people like my father experienced
in Birmingham, Alabama, when, in fact, the police
weren't going to protect you."
--Condoleezza Rice |
"If anybody comes into my
home and tries to hurt my kids,
I've no problem shooting them."
--Angelina Jolie,
Daily Mail |
"We must reject the idea
that every time a law is broken, society is
guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the
American
precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
--Ronald Reagan
|
"There is no
place a person can inflict (more) terror and mass mayhem
than on a gun-free zone."
--Senator Brock Greenfield, SD |
"The Constitution was
written to protect man from the government."
--Ayn Rand |
"Criminals
are not stopped by talk, but by FIREARMS. That is why
all REAL Americans put our 2nd Amendment FIRST!!"
--Wendy Weinbaum, Rapid City Journal, February
6, 2008 |
"[The] IL State
Legislative National Political Awareness Test...[found]...that Obama wanted to 'ban the sale or transfer of all
forms of semi-automatic weapons.' Indeed, such a
ban would outlaw virtually all handguns and the vast
majority of rifles sold in the United States."
--John Lott,
FOXNEWS.COM, 2008 |
“A
disgruntled student at Appalachian Law School, Peter
Odighizuwa, allegedly shot and killed the school's dean,
a professor and a student on campus before being subdued
by two armed students.”
--Christine
Hall, CNSNEWS.COM |
"Law abiding citizens have to stop allowing themselves
to be made victims by a so-called benevolent government
that convinces them they are helpless and don't possess
the intelligence and ability to defend themselves or
learn to defend themselves."
--Lynne Roberts,
Boston Globe
|
"The great majority of times when a
private citizen draws a gun on a criminal suspect, the
very presence of the gun suffices to end hostilities
with no shots fired."
--Massad F. Ayoob,
Brief of Amici
Curiae,
DC v. Heller |
"An unarmed man can
only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing
from it."
--Jeff Cooper |
"Maryland ratified the Bill of Rights in December of
1789 and a certified true copy of the amendments
considered may be found in the Maryland State Archives
Online. That document shows the 2nd Amendment as having
one comma."
--Phil Lee |
"Gun
laws do not disarm criminals, but instead make easy prey
out of Americans who obey them. Criminals and terrorists
should be afraid of law-abiding citizens, not the other
way around. ...The government has no right to prohibit
you from defending yourself."
--Ron Paul |
"If my research convinces me of anything, when you ban
guns it's going to be the most law-abiding people who
obey these rules and not the criminals."
--John Lott, The Bias Against Guns, 2003 |
"Both
oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore
deprive them of their arms."
--Aristotle, Politics Ch 10 para 4. |
"The common
denominator is all [the mall and school] shootings took
place in a gun free zone. The shooters made the safe
assumption that their evil plans had a probability of
succeeding because the majority, if not all of the
citizens there, would be unarmed. They were sitting
ducks."
--Duane
Lester,
allamericanblogger.com, December 10, 2007 |
"The said 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
|
"To disarm the people —
that...[is]...the best and most effective way to enslave
them."
--George Mason, In the Virginia convention |
"Experience hath shewn
(sic),
that even under the best forms...[of government,]...those
entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny."
--Thomas Jefferson |
"The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that all citizens have
a right to purchase a weapon to defend themselves, their
families and their homes - unless there is some
disqualification that prevents them from owning a
weapon."
--Judge Bob Moon |
"Gun
control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and
gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy,
I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull
the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger.
We'll see who wins."
--Mafia informant Sammy "The Bull" Gravano |
"We, too,
born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing
to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who
believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet
than live on our knees."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
"When victims have guns, it is less
likely aggressors will attack or injure them."
--Gary Kleck |
"There are
four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap,
ballot, jury, and ammo."
--Ed Howdershelt |
"If you
disarm someone you become morally responsible for their
safety."
-- Michael D. Bartman |
"A system
of licensing and registration, is the perfect device to
deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
--V.I. Lenin |
"Americans
have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you
don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power."
--Yoshimi Ishikawa |
"I
understand the challenges that big cities face from gun
violence. But banning people from having handguns in
their own homes for self defense is excessive and
unconstitutional. ...It clearly undercuts the Second
Amendment, which protects the rights of law abiding
individuals to keep and bear arms."
--Rudy Giuliani |
"Freedom
is not something to be secured in any one moment in
time, We must struggle to preserve it everyday. Freedom
is never more than one generation away from extinction."
--Ronald Reagan |
"Wherever
. . . the right of the people to keep and bear arms is,
under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited,
liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of
destruction."
--St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries: With
Notes and Reference, Volume I, 1803 |
"Democracy is two
wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin |
"The most
foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow
the subject races to possess arms. History shows that
all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to
carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing
so."
--Adolph Hitler |
"Gun bans don't disarm
criminals, gun bans attract them."
--Walter Mondale |
"Arms discourage
and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve
order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief
would ensue when the law-abiding...[are]...deprived the
use of them."
--Thomas
Paine |
"The Second Amendment
secures a right of individuals generally, not a right of
States or a right restricted to persons serving in
militias."
--from
Whether the Second Amendment Secures an Individual Right,
U.S. Department of Justice, 2004 |
"The advantage of being
armed...the Americans possess over the people of all
other nations...[Those]...governments are afraid to
trust the people with arms."
--James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights,
Federalist Paper No. 46. |
"No free
man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
--Thomas Jefferson |
"In
America, we may reasonably hope that the people will
never cease to regard the right of keeping and bearing
arms as the surest pledge of their liberty."
-- St. George Tucker |
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does
oppression. In both instances, there is a
twilight. And it is in such twilights that we all
must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest
we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75) |
"The smallest minority on
earth is the individual. Those who deny individual
rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
--Ayn Rand |
"Gun-free zones don't save lives, they
enable mass murder of unarmed and helpless citizens."
--Philip Van Cleave |
"We believe that the time has come for the Second Amendment to
take its place
as the Constitution's insurance policy against tyranny and as
our guardian
against unjust laws that leave us defenseless against a growing
criminal element."
--Alan Gottlieb,
www.saf.org |
"The Centers for Disease Control did an
extensive review of various types of
gun control: waiting periods, registration and
licensing, and bans on certain firearms.
It found that the idea that gun control laws have
reduced violent crime is simply a myth."
--John Stossel, ABC News |
"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout
all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern
himself or be ruled by a small elite."
--Thomas Jefferson |
"Firearms are used more
than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives."
--Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz,
as cited by
Gunowners of America (www.gunowners.org) |
"Today, we need a nation
of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take
arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of
freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life."
--President John F. Kennedy |
"I
declare to you that woman must not depend upon the
protection of man, but must be taught to protect
herself, and there I take my stand."
--Susan B. Anthony |
"The safest road to
hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft
underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones,
without signposts."
--C.S. Lewis |
"When guns are banned,
instead of making things safe for the victims,
you make things safe for the criminals."
--Prof. John Lott,
www.bighollywood.breitbart.com |
"Arms in the hands of the citizens
may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the
overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense."
--John Adams, 2nd President of the United
States |
"Personal Protection
[i]s a Personal Responsibility."
--Robert D. Culver,
MCSM |
