Never be so trusting of a government to protect you that you give up your own means of self defense. A good government will never try to render its citizens defenseless—an evil government always will.

Aaron Zelman and Richard Stevens
2001
Death by “Gun Control:” the Human Cost of Victim Disarmament

[Via Proclaiming Liberty: What Patriots and Heroes Really Said About the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

I have nothing to add.—Joe]