Anti-gun people are anti-liberty people. There is no such thing as a righteous, good faith anti-gun position. Good people cannot endorse gun control.
John Longenecker
July 4, 2006
Repeal All Gun Laws, Part IV: Motivation Influences Perception
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
Quote of the day–Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
[We have faltered. A great many freedoms have already been lost. There is much work to be done to restore our freedoms.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Ehud Olmert
If God forbid, they should hurt the soldier, our operations will be far, far worse. The sky will fall on their heads if they dare to harm Gilad Shalit.
Ehud Olmert
Israeli Prime Minister
July 3, 2006
Gaza Militants Deadline Expires
Mr Olmert has given the green light to the Israeli military to do everything possible to secure the safe return of Cpl Gilad Shalit, captured in a cross-border raid nine days ago. The militants had given Israel until 0300 GMT to comply with their demand or face unspecified “consequences”. Hours before the deadline expired, Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon said Israel will respond severely if Cpl Shalit was harmed.
Quote of the day–Xenia Huffman-Scott
That is so bad-ass.
Xenia Huffman-Scott
July 1, 2006
During the movie Superman Returns as a bullet, in slow motion, hits, flattens, and drops to the ground.
[They did a very good job with the bullet. It looked very much like a real pistol bullet when it hits a steel plate.–Joe]
Update: Xenia posted on the same topic. She gives more details which I considered spoilers, but she and James insist were not.
Quote of the day–Doug Larson
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
Quote of the day–The Gun Guys
For all their grunting and hawing about how bad criminals are, the gun lobby actually has a pretty good deal going with murders and illegal gun traffickers. The gun industry sells guns to the criminals, and the criminals get in trouble for it. The gun lobby gets paid, and they set up the laws so that the penalties go only to the person who uses the gun, and no further.
Gun Guys
The NRA Sees “Value” in Protecting Illegal Gun Traffickers
June 29, 2006
[When they say things like that I don’t think I need to explain how these Gun Guys have mental problems.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Haim Ramon
He is not immune, no matter where he is. He definitely is in our sights, just as every terrorist, every person who operates against us by means of terror, is a target.
Haim Ramon
Israeli justice minister
June 29, 2006
Warning that Israel could target Khaled Meshaal, Hamas’ exiled political chief, based in Damascus, Syria, who has been blamed for blocking Shalit’s (a kidnapped Israeli soldier) release by the militants in Gaza.
[Israel also bombed the electrical power generation capabilities of Gaza, and took out three bridges, and arrested dozens of politicians. I say it’s a good first step. I still think feeding them to the hogs is the right way to handle the Islamic extremists.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Robert Joseph
We recognize the rights of the oppressed to defend themselves against tyrannical and genocidal regimes and oppose a blanket ban on non-state actors.
Robert Joseph
U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control
June 27, 2006
Speaking at the U.N. conference on “illegal small arms”.
[Expressed only slightly more forcefully, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”–Joe]
Quote of the day–Ron Paul
The UN claims to serve human freedom and dignity, but gun control often serves as a gateway to tyranny. Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government.
Rep. Ron Paul, Texas
June 26, 2006
The Worldwide Gun Control Movment in Texas Straight Talk
Also: June 27, 2006
The Worldwide Gun Control Movement in The Sierra Times
Quote of the day–Jeff Cooper
The passage of the Brady foolishness was a foregone conclusion in Washington – despite its blatant unconstitutionality – as soon as we lost the election of `92, thus it comes as no surprise. What is really awful is the unblushing profession that while the bill itself will do nothing at all, it is still necessary to “make a statement,” as if the legislators meant that they were going to do something. You and I will not be inconvenienced by any five day waiting period, since we already have our guns, as all proper members of the United States Militia must have. The idea that our lawmakers can profit from doing something silly, and admitting that it is silly, makes one more than ever doubtful about the merit of the democratic process. Alcibiades pointed out that it would never work, and that was some four-hundred years before Christ. Perhaps he was right after all.
Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 1, No. 11
10 December 1993
[I don’t think it can seriously be claimed that the democratic process “will never work”. It doesn’t work as well as we would like but it does work better than anything else that has ever been tried. Unfortunately human nature is such that those that crave the power of government seldom have the strength of character to abide by the restrictions placed upon them by the same laws that give them their power.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton
You know what they teach you in the military about what you use a handgun for? You use it to fight your way to a rifle.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
[Greg may have picked this meme up from Clint Smith, but I first heard it from Greg.-Joe]
Quote of the day–Abigail Adams
Power, whether vested in the many or a few, is ever grasping, and, like the grave, cries, “Give, give!”
Abigail Adams
Revolutionary War patriot and wife of John Adams
[This is why we have the enumerated powers of the Constitution.
This is supposed to limit the powers of both the many and the
few. Sadly, these days the Constitution is almost entirely
ignored and the powers claimed by government have far exceeded the
limits imposed by that tattered document.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Patrick Henry
The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
Patrick Henry
In the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution
Quote of the day–Robert Whelan
The right to private property is the Englishman’s right to his castle. This looks to me like the point where Labour has overstepped the mark into behaving more like a dictatorship than a democratic government.
I think anybody whose property is seized under this law should go straight to court to see if a judge thinks it should stand.
Robert Whelan
Representative of Civitas
From Homes of the dead to be seized by the state
June 17, 2006, Daily Mail
[Perhaps Mr. Whelan is using English understatement because in my viewpoint the English politicians started behaving like a dictatorship when they started putting restrictions on firearms. And when they seize the property of the dead, remove the contents, and rent it out for their own gain it’s way past the point of “seeing a judge things it should stand”. It’s time to exercise your right to keep and bear arms. But the people are just now realizing they waited too long to do that. HT to Ry for pointing this out.–Joe]
Quote of the day–The Gun Guys
…there’s no reason to have a gun around in the first place. A gun isn’t used to protect anything. It’s used to kill.
Your Gun Guys Daily Update
June 21, 2006
Email from The Gun Guys
[This nutcase must think all policemen carrying guns are government assassins. This is a reminder that most anti-gun people have mental problems.-Joe]
Quote of the day–Mujahedeen Shura Council
We announce the good news to our Islamic nation that we executed God’s will and slaughtered the two crusader animals we had in captivity. And God has given our Emir, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, the good fortune of carrying out the legitimate court’s command in person.
Mujahedeen Shura Council
A group linked to al Qaeda
CNN June 20, 2006
U.S.: Two missing soldiers found dead
[The Geneva and Hague Conventions do not apply to these Muslim extremists who do not abide by it themselves. We need to start feeding them, dead or alive, to the hogs.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Tony Warr
The gun registry registers legal guns. Gangsters don’t register their guns.
Tony Warr
June 18, 2006
Toronto’s deputy police chief
Gun Control System Targeted in Canada
Quote of the day–Andrew Bacchus
If you want a gun, you can get one in a day, a couple of hours maybe. The gun registry hasn’t made any difference on that.
Andrew Bacchus
Founder of Toronto’s Vice Lords gang who is now working with Breaking the Cycle, a gang-exiting program
June 18, 2006
Gun Control System Targeted in Canada
Quote of the day–Marty Smith
To hell with the 72 virgins. I don’t want to be a martyr if that’s the case. Give me three good whores.
Marty Smith
June 17, 2006
Quote of the day–Abbie Hoffman
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman
[I admire his insight, his energy and his ability to accomplish things even though many of his goals were misguided.–Joe]