The first and basic premise of paganism, socialism, and Molech worship is its claim that the state owns the child. The basic premise of the public schools is this claim of ownership, a fact some parents are encountering in the courts. It is the essence of paganism to claim first the lives of the children, then the properties of the people.
R.J. Rushdoony
What the subcommittee on the Constitution uncovered was clear — and long lost — proof that the Second Amendment to our Constitution was intended as an individual right of the American citizen to keep and carry arms in a peaceful manner, for protection of himself, his family, and his freedoms.
Senator Orrin Hatch
Chairman, Subcommittee on the Constitution,
Preface, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don’t.
Cullen Hightower
[Among the most useful laws to those that disobey them are the laws that attempt to ban or restrict goods or services. The black market always finds a way whether it is something physical like booze, guns or recreational drugs or some service such as high interest loans (loan sharking), gambling or prostitution.–Joe]
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
[For my readers, see Dan’s comment, that don’t “feel” people living under restrictive gun laws are oppressed.–Joe]
My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, we would someday graduate from Canada.
Robert Fulford
[Particularily relevant now with the proposed ban on handguns in Canada.–Joe]
If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.
Robert Heinlein
[One of my favorite Heinlein quotes.–Joe]
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment’s respite deserve only the end of a rope.
L. Neil Smith
Happiness is being near the top of the food chain.
Back of a T-shirt worn by
Greg Hamilton
Self defense and firearms instructor
September 15, 1997
[Also applicable to the truth laid bear ecosystem for blogs.–Joe]
Gun bans are an attempt to confiscate the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police’s total failure to control crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. In a nutshell, gun bans mean that because criminals abuse guns, law-abiding citizen have no right to defend themselves.
James Bovard
Lost Rights
ISBN 0-312-12333-7
Copyright 1994, 1995
People may be ignorant, yes. But it is a willful ignorance. They don’t want the truth. No matter how many times I explain they are wrong, no matter how much evidence I give them they don’t care. Their belief makes them feel good and that’s good enough for them.
And this understanding of people’s willful ignorance leads directly to my lack of faith in humanity. I don’t trust people to fix the political system, I don’t trust people to see religion for what it is, I don’t trust people to see the truth that is in front of them, and I don’t trust people to be smart. People don’t want to question their beliefs, they’re happy being ignorant and it doesn’t matter how much I argue with them they won’t change. Therefore they are not worth my time. The majority of mankind doesn’t care for truth and so I don’t care for them.
James Huffman-Scott
Speech for Comm 101
2001
From https://www.joehuffman.org/misc/LifeChange.htm
Real men use guns made of metal and use other people’s teeth to rack the slide.
Bill Boyle
Monday, December 05, 2005 2:33 PM
Microsoft Gun Club
After someone else suggested using his teeth to rack the slide on his polymer pistol if one hand was incapacitated.
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Thomas Jefferson
[We failed.–Joe]
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded–here and there, now and then–are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”
Robert Heinlein
[This, in a nutshell, is the problem with socialism in all it’s forms.–Joe]
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but didn’t we have this discussion with you folks about 223 years ago? I’d have thought that having the road between Lexington and Concord fertilized with dead Redcoats answered that question back then.
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If my ancestors would have been armed, they wouldn’t have been slaves.
JJ Johnson
Black American gun-owner
Answering the poll question “Should America ban the handgun?”
BBC News — March 1998
ARE YOU A MENACE TO CRIMINALS?
If householders were required by law to own and know how to use revolvers, burglary would cease. It is an act of good citizenship to make crime dangerous — an encouragement of crime to remain defenseless.
From an Iver Johnson revolver ad
Circa 1904
Despite the best efforts of the hoplophobes, the U.S. remains way ahead of most other jurisdictions in the matter of firearms freedom. Recently an English jeweler, whose shop had been raided twenty times in twenty years, repelled borders by seizing the firearm of one of the bandits who broke into his shop. With the captured firearm he shot both of the bandits, though not fatally.
This was in England, and, of course, he was immediately in a great deal of trouble. He was fined 2,000 pounds for “illegal use of a firearm,” 100 more for possession of ammunition which was related to another weapon, plus 1,050 more pounds for prosecution costs. This whole affair is costing the jeweler over $6,000 in American money, plus his attorney’s fee.
Just how this sort of idiocy is justified in the eyes of the British courts is unclear, but though we find a lot of domestic jurisprudence pretty bad, such things can get worse.
Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 3, No. 12
October 1995
[This idiocy is easily justified in the eyes of the British–if they subscribe to the cattle philosophy of human governance. See? It all makes sense now.–Joe]
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis- German National Socialism.
Hermann Goering (1893-1946),
German Nazi leader, air marshal.
Speech, 9 April 1933, Sports Palast, Berlin.
[“Progressives” and “Liberals” should never be allowed to forget the roots they share with the Nazis.– Joe]
Our idea of improving NICS is to abolish it. There is this continuing assumption that a gun buyer is guilty until proven innocent.
Larry Pratt
Executive director of the Gun Owners of America
Associated Press
November 27, 2005
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Nov/20051127News033.asp
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/top/3_1_EL27_A1GUNS_S1.htm
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms . . . you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccol Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
Italian political philosopher and statesman
The Prince, ch. 12 (1514)
The problem is that private firearms ownership in Australia has fallen victim to a narrow, authoritarian mentality which substitutes the lowest common denominator, irrational fear, for sensible debate. The fundamental freedom to protect one’s life and property has been replaced by a policy which ignores the fact that no matter how well resourced a police service may be it cannot prevent violent home invasions. Ultimately, individuals must be given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own safety.
Paul Peake
Self Defence (November 1998)
From http://www.ssaa.org.au/ilanov98.html (as of December 1, 1998)