If it ever becomes time to shoot someone, shoot early and shoot often.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
Quote of the day–Violence Policy Center
Gun shows hold a particular appeal for the pro-gun fringe… While McVeigh and Koresh may be two of the best known gun show customers, they are other lesser known but equally discomforting attendees. According to the January 23, 1995 issue of National Review, convicted serial killer Thomas Dillon began his murderous career by killing more than 500 dogs and cats, then moved on to humans allegedly killing at least five men. In 1989 he announced to a friend that he had quit killing animals and began inviting the friend to attend gun shows with him.
From the July 1996 Violence Policy Center study Gun Shows in America:
Tupperware® Parties for Criminals.
See: http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/gunshow.htm
[Bigots spouting off–Joe]
Quote of the day–Don Kates
The gun control debate is not really about criminology but rather about bigotry.
Don Kates
Constitutional lawyer and criminologist
July 2, 1994
http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Firearms/Essays/Don%20Kates/Don%20Kates%20at%20Sacramento%20Rally
Quote of the day–Alan Gottlieb
If anybody is an authority on lethal car crashes it would be Ted Kennedy.
Alan Gottlieb
Second Amendment Foundation
Referring to a report from MSNBC that “more officers are being killed in traffic accidents” than by guns and Kennedy’s desire for more gun control to protect the police.
http://www.saf.org/viewpr.asp?id=157
Quote of the day–Henry David Thoreau
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849).
Quote of the day–Mack Tanner
I say not “give me liberty or give me death”. I say I am born free and he who would deny me freedom risks his own death.
Mack Tanner
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tanner/born_free.shtml
Quote of the day–Bi Switchable Yento of Seattle
When they took the fourth amendment,
I was quiet because I didn’t deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment,
I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
I was quiet because I didn’t own a gun.
Now they’ve taken the first amendment,
and I can say nothing about it.
Quote of the day–Machiavelli
An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well-armed and free. The Swiss are well-armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.
Machiavelli
The Prince; Chapter 17
Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton
You can’t shoot somebody just because they are a scumbag. They have to have the ability, opportunity, and have put an innocent person in imminent jeopardy of life or serious bodily harm. If you are looking to just shoot somebody go to some other country and buy a tag.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
Quote of the day–Walter Williams
The Second Amendment gives us the right to bear arms in order to have a “well-regulated militia.” People with little understanding interpret that as meaning the National Guard or some other government organization. But here’s how George Mason, one of our unsung framers, responded to the question, “I ask, sir, what is a militia?” Mason answered, “It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.” James Madison said, “Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion…in private self-defense.”
George Washington said, “When firearms go, all else goes…we need them every hour.” The framers of our Constitution knew well that an armed citizenry was the ultimate defense against government tyranny. As for crime, Thomas Paine said, “The peaceable part of mankind will be overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defense…(but) arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe….Horid mischief would ensue were the good deprived of the use of them.”
-Walter Williams-
Periodical
Colorado Springs Gazette
4/24/94
Quote of the day–Harry Thomas
And Miss (Attorney General Janet) Reno, I say to you: If you send your jackbooted, baby-burning bushwackers to confiscate my guns, pack them a lunch. It will be a damned long day. The Branch Davidians were amateurs.
I’m a professional.
Harry Thomas
NRA Board Member
Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton
Most people are grass-eaters with their heads down on the ground. The jackals and lions know this and think of them as that. Hold your head up and walk like you are the biggest, badest lion that walks. The jackals and lions will notice and leave you alone because they don’t want to get hurt. Don’t challenge them because they might feel they have to respond to it. All you want is their respect, not their dignity.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
Quote of the day–William F. Buckley Jr.
[T]he government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Periodical
National Review, August 7, 1965
Quote of the day–The Talmud
Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice in the act.
The Talmud
Quote of the day–DER NATIONALSOZIALISMUS DOKUMENTE
We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: . . . and end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand . . . the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education . . . . We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents . . .
The government must undertake the improvement of public health – by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor . . by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the . . . materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good.
Excerpts from the political program of the Nazi Party, adopted in Munich, on Feb 24, 1920 – source- DER NATIONALSOZIALISMUS DOKUMENTE 1933-1945 , edited by Walther Hofer, Frankfurt am Mein: Fischer Bucherei, 1957 pp 29-31
Quote of the day–Alphan Oumar Konare
The political, economic and social consequences of the anarchic proliferation of light weapons are well known. They are the millions of victims, most of them civilians, the displaced populations with their tears and suffering, the phenomena of child soldiers, terrorism and wide-scale banditry in urban areas. This belief in disarmament does not proceed from idealism, or from naivete. The best strategy for prevention of armed conflict is to eliminate the means of violence.
Alphan Oumar Konare
President of Mali
Oslo, April 1998
From http://www.prepcom.org/low/index.html
Quote of the day–National Crime Prevention Council
Don’t carry a weapon. You lose, whether you use it or it’s used on you.
National Crime Prevention Council
10 things you can do. Tip number 8.
From: http://www.weprevent.org/your10.htm (as of March 10, 1999)
Quote of the day–SA OBERFUHRER OF BAD TOLZ, GERMANY
The associations of the nation revival, SA [Storm Troopers], SS [para-military adjunct of the Gestapo], and Stahlhelm [a non-Nazi lunatic fringe para-military organization], give every responsible citizen the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above-named organization and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon . . . must be regarded as an enemy of the national government and will be brought to account without compunction and with the utmost severity.
SA OBERFUHRER OF BAD TOLZ, GERMANY
Quoted in Richard Munday
“The Monopoly of Power”
(paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, 1991)
Quote of the day–Nancy Amos
You’ve got to be kidding. They said Joe was dishonest? Joe is the most honest person I know.
Nancy Amos
Quote of the day–Milton Friedman
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman