I'd rather be judged by 12, than carried by 6.
God created man, but Colonel Colt made them equal.
Don't think of it as "gun control", think of it as "victim disarmament".
"Gun control" is a job-safety program for criminals.
When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- Mao Zedong
When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".
- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolution"
One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.
- L. Neil Smith
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
- A.E. Van Vogt, "The Weapon Shops Of Isher", ASF December 1942
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to
back up his acts with his life.
- Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942
Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out
because I might yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
- Peter Venetoklis
The Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the
United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
- Samuel Adams
Ted Kennedy's Car Has Killed More People Than My Gun.
The real definition of "Gun Control" is that your bullet hits the spot you are aiming for.
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the
conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who
have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall
by doing so.
- Adolph Hitler, April 11, 1942
Without law and order our nation cannot survive.
- Adolf Hitler
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the
Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography, pg 446
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we
cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
- Patrick Henry
The great object is that every man be armed.
- Patrick Henry
I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool
of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class.
- David Mohler, 1989, on being denied a carry permit in NYC
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
Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws... It pains me to
say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the
toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.
- Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune
Gun Control: The ability to put two bullets through the same hole.
- Ted Nugent
Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and
strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman
explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
- L. Neil Smith
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank Zappa
We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.
- Donald Alexander
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
- Lao-Tse
They call it the Halls of Justice because the only place you get justice is
in the halls.
- Lenny Bruce
When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.
When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet.
- Lyle Myhr
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, Japanese author, in the LA Times 15 Oct 1992
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow
the first one.
- Rush Limbaugh, August 17, 1993
"[T]he victim is entitled to respond according to the rule ('The use of force
is permissible') that the aggressor himself has implicitly laid down."
- John Hospers, "Retribution: The Ethics of Punishment," in Assessing the Criminal: Restitution, Retribution, and the Legal Process, Randy E. Barnett and John Hagel III, eds., (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1977): p. 191.
"[W]hen someone is punished for having violated others' rights, it is not the
case that the criminal has alienated or otherwise lost his rights; rather, it
is the case that the criminal's choice to live in a rights-violating way is
being respected."
- Douglas B. Rasmussen & Douglas J. Den Uyl, Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991): 85
"[I]f someone attacks another, that act carries with it, as a matter of the
logic of aggression, the implication that from a rational moral standpoint the
victim may, and often should retaliate."
- Tibor R. Machan, Individuals and Their Rights (1989): 176
"[T]here is no affront [or injustice] where the victim consents."
- [Roman jurist] Ulpian (Domitius Ulpianus), Edict, book 56, 4 The Digest of Justinian (Theodor Mommsen, Paul Krueger & Alan Watson eds., 1985), at Book 47, A7 10.1.5 (nulla iniuria est, quae in volentem fiat).
Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people
don't follow them so what good are they?
- Ammon Hennacy
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
What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?
- Don Feder
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
- Mario Puzo
Law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of
justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
- John Quincy Adams
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
The big thieves hang the little ones.
- Czech Proverb
Petty laws breed great crimes.
- Ouida
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All
three need supervision.
- Dick Armey
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
- Ambrose Bierce
When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The police are not here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve
disorder.
- Mayor Richard Daley
The more laws the more offenders.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
- A. K. Griffin
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
- Alfred E. Newman
The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket
doesn't get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.
- Joseph Sobran
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
- Benjamin R. Tucker
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its
efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who
don't know anything and can't read.
- Mark Twain
FBI, F.B.I. stands for Famous But Incompetent.
Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bare arms!
There's been a burglary down at police headquarters.
All the toilet seats were stolen.
The police have nothing to go on.
DARE - To keep Cops off Donuts! Donut Abuse Resistance Education
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image
there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe
laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body
before you do the wash.
- Jerry Seinfeld
New Recruit: Call for backup!
She said "Well I certainly hope it isn't loaded!"
To which I said, "of course it is loaded, can't work without bullets!"
She then asked, "Are you that afraid of someone evil coming into your house?"
My reply was, "No not at all. I am not afraid of the house catching fire either, but I have fire extinguishers around, and they are all loaded too."
To which I'll add, "having a gun in the house that isn't loaded is like having a car in the garage without gas in the tank".
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