Anti-gun-ownership politicians are very dangerous to a free society. Liberty and freedom can only be preserved by an armed citizenry. I see creeping fascism in America, just as in Germany, a drip at a time; a law here, a law there, all supposedly passed to protect the public. Soon you have total enslavement. Too many Americans have forgotten that tyranny often masquerades as doing good.
Theodore Hass
Former prisoner of the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp
The more difficult the government makes it for law-abiding citizen to get guns, the more power criminals who do have guns will have. Gun bans destroy the possibility of a balance of power of fire-power between law-abiding citizens and violent criminals.
James Bovard
Lost Rights
ISBN 0-312-12333-7
Copyright 1994, 1995
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
Daniel Webster
To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem. To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized, merely the domesticated.
Trefor Thomas
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
U.S. Democratic politician, president.
Speech, 9 Sept. 1912, New York Press Club.
Bureaucracy: An execution chamber in which the condemned are alternately strangled by rules, clubbed with paper, and starved in lines.
Alexander Yarrowville
Free people never beg governments for fundamental rights like free speech, freedom of association, self-defense, worship and freedom to travel.
If the government gets in the way of your ability to live your life peacefully, as you see fit, in voluntary relationships with others, then it’s wrong and you’re right. Period.
Don’t sit around and wait for Congress to the state legislature to “fix” violated rights. The very essence of the government game is that legislators give you a tiny bit here while grabbing a double handful of what’s yours there. Even if you gain a victory or two, in the long run, government is a game freedom lovers can only lose.
Never, never beg or negotiate for your rights. Take them. If enough of us do, no government in the world can stand in our way.
Claire Wolfe
From “101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution”
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Winston Churchill
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
Autobiography,
Translated from the Gujarati by Mahadev Desai.
Public Affairs Press, Washington, D.C. 1948.
(Republication by Unabridged Dover, 1983. page 403.
Indeed, I am now of the opinion that a compelling case for “stricter gun control” cannot be made, at least not on empirical grounds. I have nothing but respect for the various pro-gun control advocates with whom I have come in contact over the past years. They are, for the most part, sensitive, humane and intelligent people, and their ultimate aim, to reduce death and violence in our society, is one that every civilized person must share. I have, however, come to be convinced that they are barking up the wrong tree.
James Wright
Academic researcher who collaborated with Peter Rossi on the book Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and their Firearms
Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of safety hazard don’t see the danger of the big picture. They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like.
Alan Dershowitz
Quoted in Dan Gifford
The Conceptual Foundations of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in
Religion and Reason
62 TENN. L. REV. 759 (1995)
Three goblins gain entry to house and ask maid, at pistol point, where child is. Maid says that she doesn’t know. Mother walks into room. Goblins ask mother. Mother tells them same. Second maid sees goblins and screams. Crowd gathers to see what’s happening. Goblins fire to scare crowd away. Big mistake – most neighbors are military or security types. Goblins retreat into house and attempt escape across roof and out into street. First goblin is shot in leg and promptly beaten to death. Second goblin is shot in leg, beaten, and left for dead. (Made it alive to hospital; unknown if he lived.) Third goblin manages to make it to police where he falls on knees and begs officers to arrest him. Neighbors unhappy about arrest since it ruined their scores on goblin catching.
Big difference in reactions between Americans and Guatemalans.”
Thomas K. Graziano,
April 18, 1994,
Guatemala City, Guatemala
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 2, No. 7
3 June 1994
I’d like to believe that the anti’s [anti-gun proponents] are emotional, but I’m cynical enough to think that their ultimate leadership is driven by a cold desire for power and a grandiose need to alter the architecture of society. … The emotionalism is their rhetorical voice, which they have selected as the best way to move the public to their attitudes and beliefs.
Sean Flynn
5/14/98
No true survivalist would leave his wine cellar undefended in times of trouble. OTOH, the issues of TEOTWAWKI etiquette are worth considering. For example, while serving incendiaries to visiting marauders, I prefer a crisp, refreshing sauvignon blanc with just a hint of charred oak. The more robust reds go well with scatter gun affairs, and one shouldn’t be afraid to serve an impudent, but amusing merlot for long distance encounters…
Ward Dorrity
Microsoft Public folder:
SOC Emergency Gear and Disaster Survival
March 17, 1999
Nothing says, “Please don’t rape me.” like multiple jacketed hollowpoints.
John Fogh
Insights Self Defense Instructor
February 23, 1999
Microsoft Gun Club Email Folder
In Massachusetts, a man was sentenced to a year in prison for shooting a coworker who was busy knifing him–for the second time–even though the Massachusetts Supreme Court admitted that “it is possible that the defendant is alive today only because he carried the gun that day for protection.”
From the book “Lost Rights”, page 221.
by James Bovard
MA SC quote from Commonwealth v. Lindsay,
396 Mas. 840, 489 N.E. 2d 666, 669 (1986)
I don’t know why everyone does not share my delight with explosives. If they don’t, it has to be some abhorrent character defect.
Ragnar Benson
From: Ragnar’s Guide to Home and Recreational Use of High Explosives
Page 110, Copyright 1988.