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  • Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  • 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  
  • First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel.

    Zero   Believe   School  
  • Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

    Gun   Order   Law  
    Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press
  • After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

    "The War Universe". Grand Street, No. 37, 1991.
  • The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

    Gun   Rights   People  
    "The Federalist Papers". Book by Alexander Hamilton, essay No. 69, 1787 - 1788.
  • The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

    Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.
  • Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

    Motivation   Fear   Gun  
  • Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

    Gun   White   America  
    Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.180, Penguin
  • The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

    Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.458, Penguin
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

    Real   Gun   Differences  
    Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention, on June 09, 1788. "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution". Book edited by Jonathan Elliot, volume 3, p. 168-169, 1836.
  • Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

    "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.
  • Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

    Gun   Law   Strong Arms  
  • Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.

    James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.192
  • People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

    Men   Animal   Gun  
    L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan
  • After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

    Military   Gun   People  
    "The War Universe". Grand Street, No. 37, 1991.
  • To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

    Strength   Peace   Gun  
    George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.
  • Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

    Army   Gun   Power  
    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
  • Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

    Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS
  • Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.221
  • The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the 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.
  • We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who's on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in America. If you're too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

    Gun   America   Watches  
    "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.
  • The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... 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  
  • For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

    Gun   Men   Strong Arms  
  • All power is inherent in the people.

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.404
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