Guns are the catalytic component in murder-suicide. Just as important, it must be understood that the emotional factors that drive suicide can be all too easily turned outward on friends, family, co-workers, and complete strangers because of the unmatched lethality of firearms. Every major murder-suicide study ever conducted has shown that a firearm—with its unmatched combination of lethality and availability—is the weapon most often used to murder the victims, with the offenders then turning the gun on themselves.

Josh Sugarmann
VPC executive director
August 5, 2002
http://www.vpc.org/press/0208nc.htm

[Apparently Mr. Sugarmann didn’t include murder-suicide studies done in Japan in his review of papers.  Murder-suicide is far more common in Japan than in the U.S. and yet guns are almost never used.–Joe Huffman]

But I wonder when else, in the history of controversy, there has been such consistent intemperance, insularity, and irascibility as the custodians of the liberal orthodoxy have shown toward conservatives who question some of the orthodoxy’s premise?  The liberals’ implicit premise is that intercredal dialogues are what one has with Communists, not conservatives, in relationship with whom normal laws of civilized discourse are suspended.

William F. Buckley, Jr.
Up From Liberalism

Do not fix the mistake – Fix the blame.

George Barbarow

In the Rooseveltain era of avowed concern for the underdog, liberals and civil libertarians had been no exception.  The stripping of a minority of their constitutional rights, indeed the entire evacuation-internment folly, was ‘engineered by liberals’, asserts Professor William Petersen of Ohio State University.  ‘Among the civilians one can hardly name a person, from the President down to the local officials, who was not one.’

Michi Weglyn
Years of Infamy
William Morrow & Company, 1976
page 112
Regard the internment of Japanese citizens in the US during WW II.
See also her obit.

Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil’s Dictionary

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Tony Blair, the new Prime Minister of England, has announced officially that his government’s grotesque gun laws are not expected to have any effect upon crime, but rather to eliminate what he calls “the gun culture.” If he succeeds in eliminating the gun culture in Britain, he will presumably feel good. Isn’t that sweet? Well, we ought not to jeer too loudly at the Brits. Just look at what we have elected!

Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 5, No. 9
August 1997

If you’re involved in any underground or anti-government activity, there is always one person you should distrust more than any other.  For years, members of groups from the Ku Klux Klan to the Weather Underground have had a saying: “You can always tell the FBI agent; he’s the one who keeps trying to get you to bomb something.”

Claire Wolfe
From 101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution

 … model legislation, “The Firearms Safety and Violence Prevention Act,” designed to expand the powers of the Secretary of Treasury to include regulation of the manufacture, distribution and sale of firearms and ammunition and to expand the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department to include firearm products and non-powder firearms. In addition to granting the Treasury health and safety powers (such as standard-setting and recall capability), it also includes: a ban on assault weapons; a ban on weapons regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA) such as silencers, hand grenades, and land mines; and a handgun phase-out–the future manufacture and sale of new handguns would be prohibited. Currently possessed handguns would be required to be surrendered upon the owner’s death.

Violence Policy Center
From http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/ceasefs.htm
(as of 11/10/98 and 01/31/05)

‘Martyrdom’ is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

There is not a group on this planet worthy of your respect.  Only individuals.  Respect or disrespect them case-by-case, based on what they do, not what categories they belong to.

It’s possible that your greatest ally could be a DEA or BATF agent becoming disillusioned with the agency’s practices.  It’s possible your worst enemy could be a friend about to rat on you to save his or her own butt.  It’s possible that the smartest person you’ll ever meet will be a member of a racial group you always believed was stupid.  It’s possible that the most venal person you’ll ever meet belongs to a group otherwise known for its honor.

Claire Wolfe
From 101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution

And remember that, even though income taxes can be a ‘pain the neck,’ the folks at the IRS are regular people just like you, except that they can destroy your life.

Dave Barry

If you are explaining, you are losing.

J.C. Watts
July 22, 2002

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.

David Hackworth

Bolt Actions speak louder than words.

Jayson AKA SAVOIE 6
From http://www.snipersparadise.com/quotes1.htm