Joe, you’re the gift that just keeps on giving.
Barb Scott
September 1, 2005
On Pacific Northwest National Laboratory “reconsidering” it’s initial refusal to comply with Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act requests for personnel file information on her husband, Joe Huffman. Their “reconsideration” might have had something to do with certain “encouragement” Joe had been giving them via various “channels”.
Dogs wear collars, wolves do not. I am a wolf. You can shoot me, trap me, poison me – even set my brother the dog on me. But you can not pat my damn head unless I say so.
Jay Loveless
1995
You loot, we shoot!
Employees at A.J.’s Produce Co.
A spray-painted bright-red warning for would-be thieves on the sides of the building on Chartres Street in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans.
From 2TheAdvocate.com
August 31, 2005
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
John Derbyshire
National Review
One of these days the talking will be over and the citizenry of the United States will decide whether or not to remain free.
Dan W. Shoemaker
A family member recently returned from Bolivia informs us that Bolivian gun laws may be the best in the world. There are none, and Bolivia gets by with a serious law against murder. Funny that no one in Britain or America has thought of that so far!
Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 4, No. 9
August 1996
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
Speech of January 7, 1790
…researchers concluded that the total 1992 cost of firearm violence was $112 billion when taking into consideration direct medical costs, lost productivity, and lost quality of life. This study also reported that each of the estimated 4.91 billion bullets sold in 1992 represented $23 in costs due to firearm violence, including $0.60 in medical and emergency services, $7.20 in lost productivity, and $15.10 in pain, suffering, and lost quality of life.
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
From: http://www.gunfree.org/csgv/bsc_eco.htm (as of 11/12/98)
[They neglect to report on the benefits in lives saved, property protected, improved quality of life, and lack of tyrants due to those same 4.91 billion bullets.–Joe]
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go around repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence.
Charles A. Beard
American historian
We’ll know the gun-grabbers have been put out of business when you can buy a blister pack of six Glock’s at Costco.
Attributed (but unconfirmed) to Greg Hamilton
On 24 September 1999, the Security Council convened its first meeting at ministerial level devoted to the issue of small arms. A report (S/2000/1092) was prepared with the assistance of internationally recognized experts following the ministerial meetings request that the Secretary-General “develop a reference manual for use in the field on ecologically safe (amended in report S/2000/1092 to read ‘environmentally sound’) methods of weapons destruction in order better to enable Member States to ensure the disposal of weapons voluntarily surrendered by civilians or retrieved from former combatants”. The report has been used as a guide in the preparation of this aide mémoire.
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A DESTRUCTION HANDBOOK
Small arms, light weapons, ammunition and explosives
UNITED NATIONS
http://disarmament2.un.org/DDAPublications/desthbk.pdf
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Motto found among the papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Leaders are best when people scarcely know they exist, not so good when people obey and acclaim them, worst when people despise them. Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you. But of good leaders who talk little, when their work is done, their aim fulfilled, the people will say: “We did this ourselves”.
Lao Tse
[I would argue most of our current political ‘leaders’ fail this test. — Joe]
When firearms go, all else goes…we need them every hour.
George Washington
Diplomacy: The art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggy” until you get a sight picture.
Anonymous adaptation
[“Sight picture” refers to having the sights on your firearm aligned on the target correctly. — Joe]
The Republic is in very bad shape – probably the worst since 1776 – but it does us all well to remember that the principles of the Founding Fathers stand as sound and irrefutable today as yesterday. We must bear in mind that “they” cannot disarm us. They do not have the legal power, of course, but neither do they have the physical power. An army may be defeated by another army, but the people of a nation cannot be, as long as they are aware of their principles and maintain their determination to observe them. We hope, of course, that “they” never presume to try, because “they” simply cannot do it. What the American people need is the viscera to tell “them” No! God grant that we still have the courage!
Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 2, No. 2
31 January 1994
[Those were very dark days in the mid-90’s. Most people forget how serious things were and how much they have improved. — Joe]
Call for a cop, call for an ambulance, and call for a pizza. See who shows up first.
Jeffrey R. Snyder
A Nation of Cowards
Published in the Fall, ’93 issue of The Public Interest, a quarterly journal of opinion published by National Affairs, Inc.
Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
Journals (1906), entry for 3 Feb. 1860.
I was the first or second tank in the column that liberated a major concentration camp, Magdeburg…. There was a horror beyond the horror of all the dying I had seen. I learned a lesson that day. There are worse events than battle. When they come to take you off to the camp, fight. And people who tell you that you will be better off in the camps than resisting are not your friends.
Arthur T. Hadley
The Straw Giant, 1971
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the Determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are constitutional rights secure.
Albert Einstein