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  • Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

    Men   Gun   Law  
  • I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

    "Christ Our Passover".
  • I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

    "Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Wild Ride". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 4, 2009.
  • It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

    Government   Self   Law  
    "Gov. Rick Scott rejects request to ban concealed weapons outside GOP convention in Tampa", www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2012.
  • What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

    Kings   America   People  
  • Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

  • What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

  • Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

    "Mika meets Dita Von Teese: 'I've had to work hard to stay like this'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
  • The keys that unlock the heart are made of funny materials: a disarming phrase that comes out of the blue, nowhere, a certain sexy walk that sends you reeling, the way someone hums when she is alone. My father said it was the way my mother danced with him.

    Sexy   Mother   Father  
    Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.33, Macmillan
  • Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

    Change   Two Sides   Evil  
  • Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

    Jobs   War   Election  
  • One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

    Gun   Tyrants   People  
    Joseph Story (1865). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers”, p.264
  • Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

    Gun   Keys   America  
  • Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

    Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

    "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.
  • What they are doing is disarming in the battle to stop illegal drugs and illegal aliens.

  • What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

    Country   Freedom   Gun  
    Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787
  • Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

    Country   Army   Gun  
    Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43
  • One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

    Class   America   Victory  
  • Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

    Lying   Snakes   People  
    Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.930, Simon and Schuster
  • Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an Americans.

    Men   Gun   Soldier  
  • Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

    Gun   Usa   Goal  
  • It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

    Enemy   Speak   Treats  
  • To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

    Richard Henry Lee (1978). “Letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican”, Univ of Alabama Pr
  • If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.

    "60 Minutes" Interview, www.youtube.com. February 05, 1995.
  • No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.180, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

    School   Law   Abiding  
  • When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.

    Men   Gun   America  
    George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.
  • It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

    C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber
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