The same thing that always happens when people without guns go up against people with guns.
Eric Finch
A character in the movie V for Vendetta.
[James and I simultaneously turned and looked at each other, for the only time during the movie, when this line was spoken. After the movie James said, “I’m surprised they had the balls to make that movie.”–Joe]
I do not believe that a lasting peace is achieved by armed force but I pay tribute to their courage and thank those who played a part in my rescue.
Norman Kember
British hostage held in Iraq for almost four months.
March 25, 2006
After being rescued by British, Canadian, and U.S. military forces.
[Mr. Kember apparently thinks we are still at war with Germany, Italy, and Japan.–Joe]
The gun control lobby has done a pretty good job of misleading people. They’ve been predicting doomsday since these laws started. For some, it took 46 states to approve it to see that it hasn’t materialized.
Chris Cox
National Rifle Association’s chief lobbyist
Answering the question, “So what took Kansas so long to pass a concealed weapons law?”
Kansas to allow hidden weapons, March 24, 2006
Kansas City Star
We just don’t think that unelected bureaucrats and people in the Attorney General’s Office should be making the decision about whether I can protect myself.
John J. Thompson
Lobbyist for the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association
March 23, 2006
Testifying before the Delaware Legislature on concealed weapon legislation.
The bill was passed by the House Public Safety by a vote of 4-2.
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors– this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man received a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.
Benjamin Franklin
[As a farm boy I would like to agree with this but times change and Mr. Franklin did not have perfect foresight of those changes.–Joe]
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
[I’m specifically thinking of people in favor of gun control but it applies to freedom haters of all types.–Joe]
This study shows that the District’s ban on handguns and assault weapons works to prevent youth suicide by keeping guns out of D.C. homes. The findings highlight the sheer lunacy of Congressional efforts to repeal D.C.’s tough laws. Congress would virtually be writing a death sentence for some young people by repealing District laws that are working to prevent youth suicide.
Kristen Rand
Violence Policy Center Legislative Director
From the July 12, 2005 Press Release: New Study Shows District of Columbia’s Tough Gun Laws Work to Prevent Youth Suicide
[Ms. Rand neglects to mention the total suicide rate in D.C. I guess it doesn’t matter if you kill yourself by slitting your wrists or with a drug overdose. And also of apparent no concern is that the murder rate in D.C. is extremely high despite, and many would say because of, the severe restrictions on firearms.–Joe]
Insights is offering Y2K compliance testing for firearms systems. You bring your guns to class and we go out on the range. Then we set our watches to January 1, 2000 and we see if everything still works.
Greg Hamilton
Insights Chief Self Defense Instructor
February 6, 1999
[A reminder that frequently the simplest tools are the most reliable. Compare the 911 system to a .357 or even the more complex 1911 system.–Joe]
A family member recently returned from Bolivia points out that they do not seem to have a gun problem in that country. They have what may be the ideal gun control laws – there are none. Additionally, cocaine in various forms is available on the open market, and they do not have any trouble with drug lords.
Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 4, No. 16
December 1996
Since the Second World War many more people have been killed as victims of domestic massacres and partial or total genocides than by international war. State-perpetrated massacres are a greater danger to the world community than war itself.
Professor Robert F. Melson
University of Chicago
Revolution and Genocide
What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go to the moon, to win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to build railroads across a continent? In independent thought about this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded that it takes a coincidence of four conditions, or in Neil’s view, the simultaneous peaking of four of the many cycles of American life. First, a base of technology must exist from which to do the thing to be done. Second, a period of national uneasiness about America’s place in the scheme of human activities must exist. Third, some catalytic event must occur that focuses the national attention upon the direction to proceed. Finally, an articulate and wise leader must sense these first three conditions and put forth with words and action the great thing to be accomplished. The motivation of young Americans to do what needs to be done flows from such a coincidence of conditions…. The Thomas Jeffersons, The Teddy Roosevelts, The John Kennedys appear. We must begin to create the tools of leadership which they, and their young frontiersmen, will require to lead us onward and upward.
Dr. Harrison H. Schmidt
Sen., New Mexico
[If we succeed in bringing democracy, capitalism, and peace to the Mideast then in the years to come this will be considered such a “great thing”.–Joe]
…this is something we’ve got over the Europeans: the ability to organize a friendly outing of shooting rifles at targets packed with home-made explosives out in rural Idaho is our birthright.
On the other hand, in Cambodia, for the right fee, you can shoot an RPG at a live cow. So there’s that to consider.
Outlandish Josh
March 13, 2006
In his blog posting AMERICA!
Millions for charity but not one cent for gun-grabbing church bureaucrats!
John Snyder
Press release from St. Gabriel Possenti Society (Patron Saint of handgunners)
Titled: Stop Gun-Grabbing Church Bureaucrats with Pro-Gun Coupons in Church Collection Baskets
You don’t hurt ’em if you don’t hit ’em.
Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller
USMC
1962
From Marine Corps Quotes
[Making a case for accurate rifles and ammo?–Joe]
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion…in private self-defense.
James Madison
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
George Bernard Shaw
1992 Daily Curmudgeon Calendar
[Sometimes life is a bummer.–Joe]
That’s kind of like the ACLU giving people who believe in freedom of speech a D in the First Amendment.
Linn Armstrong
A National Rifle Association handgun instructor
Grand Valley Colorado
March 10, 2006
After the Brady Bunch gave Colorado a ‘D’ grade on “gun safety”.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors–and miss.
Lazarus Long
A character in Robert Henlien’s book Time Enough for Love
Reno tells us that the weapon is totally safe, the finger was off the trigger.
I now know I’ll never need a trigger lock if I just keep my finger off the trigger.
“Lee Enfield”
Regarding the raid the took Elian from his relatives and back in the hands of his Cuban father.
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
John G. Diefenbaker