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As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust.
Laws disarming honest citi...
Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime.
Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gu...
When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".
-- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolutio...
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.
-- James Madison, The Federalist Pape...
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
-- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188...
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...
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms.
The possession of unnecessary impleme...
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.
-- Constitutional scholar and Su...
The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being.
.." -- J.G.A. Pocock, de...
Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest.
-- From the Declaration of the Continental Congress, July 1775....

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