Man is constantly struggling with moral issues. Those who claim to know the most about these issues are nearly always the ones who know the least.
Doug Huffman
[Nearly all government “help” falls into this category. Gun control, health care, welfare, etc. People try to make a “moral” case out of it and mess up the results. — Joe]
Abortion Simile
Hmmm. I wonder what would happen if you’d remove liberals from their life support system of government grants and welfare programs. Do you think they could make it? If it’s proven they could not, would it be OK to abort them from society?
Rachel R. Alexander
Microsoft’s Left vs. Right Discussion alias
Tuesday, April 04, 1995 11:02AM
With the exception of the mayor of Birmingham, AL (who last month suggested citizens of Birmingham arm themselves with guns), I am not aware of ANY official or agency that recommends resistance to criminal attack, despite the fact that federal statistical data (from the Bureau of Justice Statistics) overwhelmingly shows that armed defense (with firearms at the top of the “armed” list) offers the lowest risk of injury to the innocent victim.
The “system” is in the business of creating and perpetuating sheeple. Sheeple are dependent on the state/system.
Joe Waldron
10/11/2005 11:44 AM
Email to the Yahoo group WA-CCW
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
Frederick Bastiat
Watching the unfolding political debate, it occurs to me that liberals feel the same way about truth that Dracula feels about sunlight.
Paul Kirchner
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 3, No. 5
31 March 1995
We read a notice from Canada to the effect that “The purpose of anti-gun legislation is to establish criminal supremacy over the citizen by awarding the goblins the status of being the sole armed caste of the population.” The publisher has gone on to state that the time has come to ask ourselves what is behind all this.
Well, we know what motivates the hoplophobe. He simply envies the man who can cope where he, the hoplophobe, cannot. A skilled, armed man lives on a plane of security and contentment different from that of others. This is not egalitarian! The man who cannot cut it, envies, fears and sometimes hates the man who can. This is all very clear, it is just a pity that so many people choose to hide their perfidious motivation behind what they claim to be “crime control.”
Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 5, No. 1
January 1997
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Goering (1893-1946)
German Nazi leader, air marshal.
Alleged radio broadcast, Summer 1936, on the Four-Year Plan.
[As by the design of the U.S. Constitution power is safest when it is in the hands of the people, not the government. — Joe]
Just because you are tolerated doesn’t mean we’re glad you came.
Bill Hall
Lewiston Morning Tribune
February 4, 1998
In reference to the neo-Nazi’s and other ‘hate-groups’ that have moved to Idaho.
We need to reduce government to just the functions authorized in the Constitution. Then, if you believe that makes the federal government too big or too little, you can work to amend the Constitution to make it more to your liking. But the first step is to establish limits, so that we no longer have unlimited government that the politicians can use for anything they want.
Harry Browne
March 1998
Libertarian Candidate for President in 1996
I believe a self-righteous liberal Democrat with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell’s Angel with an attitude.
Ted Nugent
Some people say that I have no heart. I am here tonight to tell you that I do have a heart. I have the heart of a liberal…. It’s in a jar on my desk.
Sen. Phil Gramm
1992 Lincoln Dinner at the Middlesex Club in Waltham, Massachusetts
[Something very similar is also attributed to Colorado Sen. John Andrews. — Joe]
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
(1729-97)
Irish philosopher, statesman.
If I didn’t participate in any event or join any group unless they did things just like me, I wouldn’t be able to do anything with anyone else.
If you want to be a good shooter, shoot. Shoot all you can, under all circumstances. Shoot every kind of gun in every kind of competition.
Greg Hamilton
11/11/2001
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Americans may like guns because they were reminiscent of the smell of outdoors, military heroism, the intensity of the hunt or merely because they are fascinated by the finely machined metal parts. Maybe the origin of a gun speaks of history; maybe the gun makes a man’s home seem to him less vulnerable; maybe these feelings are more justified in the country than in the city; but, above all, many of us believe that these feelings are a man’s own business and need not be judged by the Department of the Treasury or the Department of Justice.
Samuel Cummings
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Lazarus Long
A character in “Time Enough for Love” by Robert Heinlein
[Applicable to those anti-freedom, gun hating people that say “I don’t believe numbers” or “I never trust statistics”. — Joe]
If I were mad enough at someone to kill them I wouldn’t use a gun. They might wink out on me before I wanted them to. I would want them to know who it was and I would want them to feel the pain.
Eric Engstrom
[Probably said sometime in ’96 or ’97. I responded by saying “I wouldn’t use a gun either. I’d use a propane torch and a wire brush.” — Joe]
Those who have command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Aristotle
Quoted by John Trenchard and Walter Moyle
“An Argument showing That a Standing Army is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy.”
The policy of the American Government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining them, nor aiding them in their pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
World War is the second worst activity of mankind, the worst being acquiescence in slavery.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
On the Right
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Tench Coxe
1755–1824