Gun Control Quotes

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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security

of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear
Arms, shall not be infringed."
United States Constitution, Amendment II
Bill of Rights

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to

keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect
themselves against tyranny in Government.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

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 (1743-1826)
letter to Justice John Cartwright, June 5, 1824

The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of

himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it
from the State government. It is one of the "high powers"
delegated directly to the citizen, and 'is excepted out of
the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to
infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and
independent of the lawmaking power.
Texas Court Decision
Cockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394, at 401-402 (1859)]

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars."

Charles Schumer (b. 1950)
has sworn an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution
Press conference, 1993,

Waiting periods are only a step.

Registration is only a step.
The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.
Janet Reno (b. 1938)

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The

communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns
can ever be used to command the party.
Mao Tse Tung
Problems of War and Strategy, Nov 6 1938

We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and
the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to
overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go

deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection
against congressional tyranny.
Walter E. Williams (b. 1936)

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...As we enter the 21st Century, rates of taxation have

reached oppressive levels. To statists (who seek only to
expand government power), growing resentment on the part of
people who work, produce wealth, and pay oppressive taxes
presents a serious threat. Disarming ordinary Americans who
will be called upon to pay ever higher taxes is seen by them
as necessary to minimize that threat.
Howard J. Fezell, Esq.
http://www.secondamendment.net/2amd8.html

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That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to

disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid
of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.
Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper's Commentaries, Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994

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The thought that average citizens will somehow be better

able to successfully defend themselves more effectively than
our nation's trained professionals is absurd.
Handgun Control, Inc.
Official statement from Handgun Control, Inc.

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It is also interesting to note that the top officials of

Handgun Control Institute are gun owners themselves. They
also intend on keeping them. It's other people's guns that
bother them...
Mark Urbin

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95% of all 911 responses are too late to stop the crime!
So, the average 911 caller, terrified for his/her life,
has only a 1-in-20 chance of having the police arrive in
time.
(But, why call the police in the first place? Because the
police are armed! Well, why are so many people unarmed?
Often, because the law required it! Hmmm.)
Boston's Gun Bible, p. 32/6

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When seconds count between living or dying,

the police are only minutes away.
Phillip Van Cleave

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Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of

self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's
abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm
law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control
crime, the more the politicians want to restrict
individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police
protection in most places is typical government work slow, inefficient, and unreliable...
James Brovard
Quoted in "Dial 911 and Die - The Shocking Truth about...

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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."
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)

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Gun Control is not about guns;

it's about control.
Anonymous
Pro-Gun "One-Liners"

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human

freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of
slaves.
William Pitt (1759-1806)
Speech - British House of Commons, Nov. 18, 1783

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The desire to order other people around and make them

conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
Thomas Sowell (b. 1930)

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The maintenance of the right to bear arms is a most

essential one to every free people and should not be
whittled down by technical constructions.
North Carolina Court Decision
State vs. Kerner, 181 N.C. 574,...1921

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By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the

security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to
keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the
essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second
Amendment still remains an important declaration of our
basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen
must be ready to participate in the defense of his country.
For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always
be important.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
1959 letter to E.B. Mann quoted: Gun Digest 1974

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Nowhere else in the Constitution does a 'right' attributed

to 'the people' refer to anything other than an individual
right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the
Constitution that mention 'the people,' the term
unambiguously refers to all members of the political
community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment
extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute
bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment
implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and
declares only that it 'shall not be infringed.'
Justice Antonin Scalia (b. 1936)
District of Columbia v. Heller, June 26, 2008

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The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to

empower the people and give them the greatest measure of
authority over the tyranny of runaway government.
Bob Schaffer (b. 1962)

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To prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war

arm... is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional
right to keep and bear arms. 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 constitutional
privilege.
Arkansas Court Decision
Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, at 560, 34 Am. - 1878

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...the reason that the gun lobby is so powerful, is not the

NRA but the basis on which the NRA's power rests; i.e., the
Second Amendment. The truth about the Second Amendment is
something that liberals cannot bear to admit: The right wing
is right. The amendment does confer an individual right to
bear arms, and its very presence makes effective gun control
in this country all but impossible.
Daniel Lazare
"Your Constitution is Killing You" Harpers Magazine, 1999