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"A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted." Quotations relating to the Second Amendment
"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals … It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." "I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves …" "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full posession of them." "
the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms" "And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms;
" The Founding Fathers on Arms"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence
from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable
the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." "The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside
Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." "The great object is that every man be armed." and "Everyone who is able may have a gun." "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" "Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not." "The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that
it is their right and duty to be at all times armed;
" "The best we can help for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." The Founding Fathers on Maintaining Freedom"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution." "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.
" "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Later Quotes on Gun Control"The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake." "An armed man is a citizen. A disarmed man is a subject." "How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."
"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 "The right of the citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically had proved to be always possible." Senator Hubert Humphrey "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Ronald Reagan |
Gun Control - DictatorshipsNational Socialist Germany"If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things." "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches us that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." Adolph Hitler Hitler's Table-Talk at the Fuhrer's Headquarters, 1941-1942. "The authority of the (state) is not limited by checks and controls, by special autonomous bodies or individual rights. The concept of personal liberties of the individual as opposed to the authority of the state had to disappear. There are no personal liberties of the individual which fall outside of the realm of the state. The Constitution is therefore not based upon a system of inborn and inalienable rights of the individual." Ernst Huber 1933 speech to National Socialist Workers (NAZI) Party, quoted in The Ominous Parallels, Leonard Peikoff (Stein & Day, N.Y. 1982) p.6. "All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately...The S.S., S.A., and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them, therefore, anyone who does not belong to one of the above organizations and who unjustifiably keeps his weapon...must be regarded as an enemy of the national government." SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz (March, 1933). "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. The German people really believed that only hoodlums owned such (unregistered) guns. What fools we were. It truly frightens me to see how the government, media, and some police groups in America are pushing for the same mindset." Theodore Haas survivor of Dachau and the Holocaust. Communist Russia"Citizens! Turn in your weapons."English translation of Soviet Union Poster (1919). "The State, in its criminal code, forbids citizens to have firearms or other weapons, but does not undertake to defend them." Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago. Communist China"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Only the Communist Party may have guns."Mao Tse-tung Communist Cuba"Armas para que?" ("Guns for what?")Fidel Castro 1959, in a speech urging the people to turn in their guns because they were no longer needed with him in control. "In today's Cuba, only those who hold absolute power over the people are armed." Max Jorge (Cuban exile). Pro Gun Control - Here and NowThe President (Bill Clinton) says he favors “No guns of any kind, even old replica guns are acceptable. No swords or deadly knives can be permitted.” "Our main agenda is to have all guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort the facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
"Gun registration is not enough." Janet Reno Attorney General, December 10, 1993 (A.P.). "The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian population." Janet Reno Attorney General 1991 speech to B'nai B'rith in Fort Lauderdale (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 25, 1996, p. 3B). "What good does it do to ban some guns? All guns should be banned." Sen. Howard Metzanbaum "We're going to have to take this one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily— given the political realities— going to be very modest. Our ultimate goal—total control of all guns—is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered, and the final problem is to make possession of all handguns, and all handgun ammunition totally illegal." Nelson T. (Pete) Shields, III founding Chair of Handgun Control, Inc. "The only real justification (for the assault weapons ban) is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation." Charles Krauthammer "To Control Crime, Control Guns" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 7, 1996, p.3B,).
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