Firearms
Firearms
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
"No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it. The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and the name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose, since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it."
Nothing feels better than a gun to a man who's hunted or hated or been oppressed or beaten. He can lose his imagination to it, because he knows that no matter what they do to him, if he uses it well, they will remember that night, their widows will cry and their orphans will beg. That is something to a man who has no other thing.
Havana, p. 360 If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life, secondly, to liberty, thirdly, to property, together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are evident branches of, ra ther than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
"The Rights of the Colonists", 1772 The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
In difficult ground, press on; In encircled ground, devise stratagems; In death ground, fight.
The Art of War (circa 400 B.C.) If guns are outlawed, how will liberals collect taxes?
If no one is shooting at you, you have nothing to complain about. If someone is, shoot back.
A free people ought to be armed, but disciplined.
Message to Congress, 1790 My fate is not in God's Hands as long as there is a weapon in mine.
Man fights with his mind - his hands and his weapons are extensions of his will.
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.
speech in San Francisco, July 1871 The right of self-defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when 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.
Blackstone's Commentaries |
Be wary of strong drink. It can
make you shoot at tax collectors. . . and miss.
Time Enough For Love Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Quotations from Chairman Mao (1968). "A sword never kills anyone; it is a tool in the killer's hand." --
If you can't be trusted with a gun, you need a keeper.
quoted by J. Neil Schulman, Self-Control, Not Gun Control Oh. Sure. You whine about gun control. But as soon as there's a seven-foot-tall interdimenional space monster in your bedroom, then suddenly owning a gun makes sense.
Weird Science (USA-TV) The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
Gun control, the opiate of the intellectuals: elitism laced with self-righteousness.
An hour's perusal of our national charter makes it hard to understand what the argle-bargle is about. The First Amendment forbids infringments of the freedom of speech "except for commercials on children's television" or "unless somebody says '****' in a rap song or 'chick' on a college campus." The Second Amendment states that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infridged," period. There is no mention of magazine size, rate of fire, or to what exent those arms may resemble assault rifles.
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an 'equalizer' Eqalite implies liberte. And always will. Let us hope our weapons are never needed -- but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.
(1927-1989) England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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