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Signature Quotes: RKBA & Victim Disarment Part 6

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"Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from being a private citizen because he was armed; his successors, since they avoided the inconveniences of arms, became private citizens after having been dukes." -- Nicolo Machiavelli
Sentient beings who give up the intrinsic (not government given) right to carry weapons for self defense don't last very long. They quickly get overrun by the predators who, while short on morality, are rather longer on common sense. - Helen Rhine - 1995
"The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." -- U.S. vs Cruikshan (US Supreme Court)
"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 "Gandhi, An Autobiography", M. K. Gandhi, page 446
"I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me." -- U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) during U.S. Senate hearings on terrorism held in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 1995
"An unarmed people are slaves, or subject to slavery at any moment." -- Huey P. Newton.
In Chicago, 1988 saw more murderers using baseball bats than rifles. -- James Jay Baker, before the US House of Representatives, 1 Novemeber 1989
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?" -- Patrick Henry
"...hundreds of Korean storeowners in LA using handguns and shotguns to successfully repel looters." -- ABC's Nightline TV-News program
"[ laws that forbid the carrying of arms ] disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes." -- Cesare Beccaria, 1764
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." -- Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
"You know I don't believe in people owning guns, only the police and military. And I'm going to do everything I can to disarm this state." -- Michael Dukakis, then governor of Massachusetts, in conversation with Mike Yacino, MA Gun Owner's Action League, and Roy Innis, CORE. 6/16/86.
"Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation." -- Charles Krauthammer, columnist, 4/5/96 Washington Post
"A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them.And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia." --Charlie Reese, syndicated columnist
"It perhaps goes without saying that the 'average' gun owner and the 'average' criminal are worlds apart in backgrount, social outlooks, and economic circumstances. The idea that common, ordinary citizens are somehow transformed into potential perpetrators of criminal violent acts once they have acuired a firearm seems farfetched, most of all since there is substantil evidence that the typical gun oner is affluent, Protestant, and middle-class." -- James D. Wright, Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime and Vilence in America, 1983
"For no matter how cool it is to be for peace, you can't keep the peace without a piece. These idiots wish to disarm us in order to appease our enemies. Unarmed, we are that much more pleasing to the people who want us dead." -- Greg Gutfeld, Not Cool
"I sure as Hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military." -- William S. Burroughs.
"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
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Richard Henry Lee
"If you have a problem with law abiding citizens being armed, then you are the reason why law abiding citizens are armed."
"But if some has a gun and is tryuing to kill you...It would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." -- Dalai Lama
"Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control." -- Joseph Sobran (1946-2010) U.S. Journalist
"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?" -- Andrew Ford
"My AR-15 self-identifies as a flintlock muzzleloader."
Gun nut [noun]: a made-up classification used to describe a citizen who unashamedly embraces his or her right to bear arms; a buzzword created as a scare tactic by opposers of the Second Amendment.
"Politicians Prefer Disarmed Peasants"
Criminals don't like it when victims shoot back.
Gun control is nothing more than victim disarmament.
"Black Rifles Matter!"
"Let's make more laws that disarm law abiding citizens. That will stop criminals."
How many gun control advocates does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: They don't do that; they pass laws against burned-out bulbs, and then they wonder why it's still so dark. Meanwhile, a lot of people get hurt because they can't see.
When only the police have guns, it's called a Police State.
"Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." [A sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.] -- Seneca (the Younger), _Letters to Lucilius_, c.63-65
Anyone who tells you you're on the "wrong side of history" for supporting gun rights and their accessibility to able citizens clearly aren't students of history, or even passive observers of it.
"Hypocrisy is believing the First Amendment protects flag burning, but the Second Amendment doesn't protect owning an AR-15."
If high-capacity semi-automatic pistols are only good for killing, shouldn't Joseph Robinette Biden be worried about the Secret Service?
"A well-educated electorate being necessary to the prosperity of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed." Do you believe that restricting people to one book purchase per month would prevent libel and slander?
Life, Liberty and Happiness are nothing without the means to defend them.
Goon Control, not gun control
"Liberals imagine that law-abiding citizens do not have any idea how to use a gun responsibly - and that criminals will start following rules." -- Thomas Sowell
"'Common Sense Gun Measures' is to gun rights what 'Just The Tip' is to sex. Either way, someone is getting...well you get the point." -- Colion Noir
"I'm sick of these white male NRA Republicans and their mass shootings beca...um, Sayeed Farook? Hey, let's not vilify an entire group." -- Jon Gabriel
"The same people who make young girls stand in nude lineups also want to take my guns and disarm every woman in the country." -- Alana Mastrangelo
"A well-balanced breakfast being necessary for the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed" - who has the right to food? The people or the breakfast? It says you have the right to food, you don't have an obligation to eat a well balanced breakfast.
"You know how I can tell that the NRA isn't actually a terrorist organization? Because the left would be way more open to dialogue with it if it were."
"With guns in the hands of the public, sure there will be tragedies, but without them there will be genocides."
"I'm not sure why gun control advocates are so hellbent on keeping every burglar and rapist safe from their victims but it sure is unsettling."
"It's easier in Massachusetts to come out as a lesbian than to come out as a gun owner." -- Dee Dee Edmondson, a Boston attorney and member of the LGBT community who consults for the Massachusetts Gun Owner Action League (GOAL).
"Those behind the new gun control push ignore how gun control has been used against African-Americans in the past and how new gun control laws will disproportionately harm racial minorities."
"Let's talk about gun control. Banning or restricting firearms is the most White privileged idea ever. Rich liberals scoffing at the notion that a person might need to defend their own life is a tower so ivory you can't look at it in direct sunlight. It's the personal safety equivalent of saying 'just have the maid do it.'"
"If you're demanding 'gun control,' you're admitting the 20,000 plus gun control laws you already passed are ineffective. I see not reason to humor your request for more." -- Michael Z. Williamson
"Gun control is sexist and ableist."
Oskar Schindler gave 41 semiautomatic rifles to Jewish workers near the end of WWII. This was omitted from the movie.
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." -- Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America
"The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it." -- James A. Donald
"Basically, they were shooting at a moving target that was jolting back and forth in many different directions..It was very excitable and moving at a very high rate of speed for a cow." -Irvine City Manager explaining 43 police rounds fired into a cow discovered entering the 405 freeway (LA Times 11/11/93)
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -Thomas Jefferson
Prohibiting law-abiding people from owning guns because they might be stolen by criminals is like prohibiting women from going out at night because they might be raped.
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of those opinions generate hatred." -- Niccolo Machiavelli
"There's a big double standard. Senators and mayors tell me I don't need a gun from behind walls of armed bodyguards. Protecting my family is not an acceptable reason to own a gun, but protecting the life of some rich guy's family --- because he hires me as a bodyguard -- is. I'm told I don't need a gun by police officers who wear a gun every day even though they have a desk job."
"Americans have a right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." -- James Madison, The Federalist Papers No. 46 at 243-244.
"Gun Control: One of many leftist crutches to avoid explaining why their socialist policies did not bring peace and harmony."
ALCOHOL PROHIBITION Didn't Work; it CREATED more crime and violence.
DRUG PROHIBITION Doesn't Work; it CREATES more crime and violence.
GUN PROHIBITION Won't Work; it WILL CREATE more crime and violence.
"Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician wasn't regarded as mallum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved." - H. Beam Piper, "A Planet For Texans/Lone Star Planet"
"Gun control is based on the mypoic concept that criminal behavior is controlled by laws. The only control that the law has on criminals is during that period of time which the criminal spends locked up behind bars. Gun control is useless."
1 "The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner." - Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session ( February 1982 )
"First Rule of Gun Safety: Never let the government take your guns."
"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen." -- Jeff Cooper
A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
"Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule-making or legislation which would abrogate them." - U.S. Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona 380 U.S. 436 (1966)
"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
"It would...be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated 'Militia' -- and to find that purely institutional guarantee accorded a position of great prominence immediately following freedom of religion and freedom of speech." -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the Second Amendment: (A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law, Princeton University Press, 1997, 159 pages.)
"Civilians don't need an AR-15, they need a M134."
Test: Without reference to Wikipedia, can you tell me what the difference is between a revolver, a semi-automatic pistol, a magazine, and a clip? Can you describe the difference between a deer rifle and a military grade assault rifle?
If you can't, then you have no right to be making decisions that affect my use of these technologies. You certainly shouldn't be writing laws, or creating school curriculum for schools.
"Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised." -- Niccolo Machiavelli
"During my 12 and half years as a member of this body, I have never believed that addtional gun control or federal registratin of guns would reduce crime. I am convinced that a criminal who wants a firearm can get one through illegal, nontraceable, unregistered sources, with our without gun control." -- Senator Joe Biden, 1986
"Leftists be all "you have to believe in science!" until you show them statistics on how gun control doesn't work."
Assault weapon: adjective; 1. A political term used by morons to describe a semi-automatic small arms rifle (usually black in color) with certain cosmetic features in order to create fear in the uneducated.
"Mass shooting only happen in gun free areas. If you support gun control, you support dead kids, and racism."
"Owning a gun is not small dick energy. Small dick energy is relying on the government to keep you safe."
"The current [Biden] administration seems hell bent on getting those guns out of the hands of average Americans." -- Highwood Creek Outfitters' owner Tom Van Hoose
"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms." -- Richard Henry Lee, Senator, First Congress (1788)
Assault Weapon, adjective, 1. A political term used by morons ot describe a small arms rifle (usually black in color) with certain cosmetic features that scare uneducated wussies.
"Your pinko-in-law likely thinks the AR in AR-15 stands for "assault rifle." It stands for "Armalite rifle." Armalite is the company that originally designed the weapon."
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