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<option>He who goes unarmed in Paradise had better be damn sure that that's where he is.<br>- '''James Thurber'''</option>

<option>Guns don't save lives, <u>PEOPLE</u> save lives...<br>...with guns.<br>- '''Anonymous Canadian'''</option>

<option>Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. <br>- '''Thomas Jefferson'''</option>

<option>Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.<br>- '''Edward Abbey'''</option>

<option>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.<br>- '''Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi'''</option>

<option>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 well 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 one half the world deprived of the use of them.<br>- '''Thomas Paine'''</option>

<option>A [[hoplophobia|fear of weapons]] is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.<br>- '''Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1952)'''</option>

<option>How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt.<br>- '''Alexander Solzhenitsyn'''</option>

<option>An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.<br>- '''Robert A. Heinlein'''</option>

<option>A system of licensing and [[registration]] is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.<br>- '''Vladimir Ilyich Lenin'''</option>

<option>A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and [[ammunition]] to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.<br>- '''George Washington'''</option>

<option>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?<br>- '''Patrick Henry'''</option>

<option>A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.<br>- '''Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.'''</option>

<option>Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient excuse to further their agenda. I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead.<br>- '''Walter Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University.'''</option>

<option>The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The [[rifle]] is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the [[revolver]] called an 'equalizer.' Egalite implies liberte. And always will. Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.<br>- '''Edward Abbey'''</option>

<option>Tyranny derives from the oligarchy's "mistrust of the people; hence they deprive them of arms, ill-treat the lower class, and keep them from residing in the capital. These are common to oligarchy and tyranny."<br>- '''Aristotle'''</option>

<option>If [[gun law]]s in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying -- that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at [[gun control]] in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, and the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 -- establishes the repeated, complete, and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.<br>- '''Senator Orrin Hatch, Chairman of the Senate Subcomittee on the Constitution (The Making of America, p.695)'''</option>

<option>A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.<br>- '''Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, 1651'''</option>

<option>After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.<br>- '''William Burroughs'''</option>

<option>The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He who has nothing, and belongs to another, must be defended by him, and needs no arms: but he who thinks he is his own master, and has anything he may call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses, or else he lives precariously and at discretion. And though for a while those who have the sword in their power abstain from doing him injury; yet, by degrees, he will be awed into submission to every arbitrary command. Our ancestors, by being always armed, and frequently in action, defended themselves against the Romans, Danes and English; and maintained their liberty against encroachments of their own princes.<br>- '''Andrew Fletcher in A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias in Political Works 6, 1749'''</option>

<option>Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects.... But when you disarm them, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred against you. And because the government cannot remain unarmed, it follows that the government turns to hired police. Therefore a wise prince has always distributed arms to the general population.<br>- '''Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 20'''</option>

<option>They'll have to shoot me first to take my gun.<br>- '''Roy Rogers, 1982'''</option>

<option>There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.<br>- '''Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-53 BC)'''</option>

<option>People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.<br>- '''L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach'''</option>

<option>[[Gun control]] has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest [[gun law]]s in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your [[Smith & Wesson]] than to dial 911 if you're being robbed.<br>- '''Lt. Lowell Duckett, Special Assistant to DC Police Chief; President, Black Police Caucus, The Washington Post, March 22, 1996.'''</option>

<option>The [[second amendment|right]] is absolute … government has no authority to forbid me from owning a [[firearm]] … the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.<br>- '''Cal. State Sen. Tom McClintock, 6/9/2001'''</option>

<option>If householders were required by law to own and know how to use [[revolvers]], burglary would cease. It is an act of good citizenship to make crime dangerous — an encouragement of crime to remain defenseless.<br>- '''1904 [[Iver Johnson]] advertisement'''</option>

<option>That [[rifle]] on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It our job to see that it stays there.<br>- '''George Orwell'''</option>

<option>If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.<br>- '''Dalai Lama'''</option>

<option>For every one hundred men you send us, Ten should not even be here. Eighty are nothing but targets. Nine of them are real fighters; We are lucky to have them, they the battle make. Ah, but the one. One of them is a warrior. And he will bring the others back.<br>- '''Heraclitus, 500 BC'''</option>

<option>War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.<br>- '''John Stuart Mill'''</option>

<option>Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.<br>- '''Benjamin Franklin'''</option>

<option>People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.<br>- '''George Orwell'''</option>

<option>ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ !!<br>- '''Λεωνίδας I'''</option>

<option>False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crime.<br>- '''Cesare Beccaria, quoted by Thomas Jefferson'''</option>

<option>To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.<br>- '''Ted Nugent'''</option>

<option>Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual discretion in private [[self-defense]].<br>- '''John Adams'''</option>

<option>He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.<br>- '''Luke 22:36'''</option>

<option>Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.<br>- '''Joel 3:10'''</option>

<option>Our enemies will lead us to believe that we are incapable of defending ourselves and should let them do it.<br>- '''Mike W. Smith, [http://www.guned.com/ Guned.com]'''</option>

<option>[[Gun ban]]s don’t disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.<br>- '''Walter Mondale'''</option>

<option>One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.<br>- '''Joseph Story, 1840'''</option>

<option>Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater.<br>- '''Peter Venetoklis'''</option>

<option>Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom [[gun ban]]s are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents."<br>- '''Don B. Kates, writing on statistical patterns in gun crime'''</option>

<option>The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.<br>- '''Adolph Hitler, April 11 1942'''</option>

<option>[[Rifles]], [[muskets]], long-bows and hand-[[grenade]]s are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.<br>- '''George Orwell'''</option>

<option>No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of [[firearms]] in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on [[pistols]] has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.<br>- '''Colin Greenwood, in the study "Firearms Control", 1972'''</option>

<option>You know why there's a [[Second Amendment]]? In case the government fails to follow the first one.<br>- '''Rush Limbaugh, in a moment of unaccustomed profundity, 17 Aug 1993'''</option>

<option>You cannot invade the mainland [[United States]]. There would be a [[rifle]] behind every blade of grass.<br>- '''Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II'''</option>

<option>Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no good guns. There are no bad guns. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody -- except bad people.<br>- '''former [[NRA]] president Charlton Heston, at NBC's "Meet the Press", May 18, 1997'''</option>

<option>There are over 550 million [[firearms]] in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?<br>- '''Arms dealer Yuri Orlov (played by Nicolas Cage), Lord of War, 2005'''</option>

<option>25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 U.S. murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who's crazy?<br>- '''Andrew Ford'''</option>

<option>Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered [[automatic weapons]].<br>- '''General Douglas MacArthur'''</option>

<option>[[Gun Control]]: The notion that Matthew Shepard tied to a fence post in the middle of Wyoming is morally superior to Matthew Shepard explaining to the local sheriff how his attackers got all those fatal [[bullet]] holes.<br>- '''Dan Weiner'''</option>

<option>The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats.<br>- '''Marko Kloos'''</option>

<option>Freedom is indivisible - there is no “s” on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep “some freedoms” while giving up others.<br>- '''Ronald Reagan'''</option>

<option>Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.<br>- '''English Prime Minister William Pitt, in a speech to the House of Commons in 1787'''</option>

<option>There are [[four boxes]] to be used in defense of liberty: Soap, Ballot, Jury, and [[Ammo]].  Please use in that order.<br>- '''Ed Howdershelt, student protest rally at University of Texas Arlington, February 1971'''</option>

<option>Despite how the media and politicians try to frame it, the divide is not one of liberal versus conservative, left versus right, or even urban versus rural. It is simply a conflict between rational thinking people who can draw their own conclusions based on something other than media sensationalism, and those who are fearful and need swift, inaccurate and inefficient action to momentarily abate their fears until another news story or political gambit stirs them up like a nest of cowardly wasps. The [[Canadian gun registry|registry]] is today, and always has been, about fear-based politics—not public safety. <br>- '''Johnathan Ryan'''</option>

<option>It is one of the great ironies of our modern "civilized" era that in most of the places where you don't feel the need to [[CCW|carry a firearm]] for [[self defense]] you can legally do so if you choose. But in most of places where you do indeed justifiably feel the immediate need to carry a gun, they are banned.<br>- '''[[James Wesley Rawles]]'''</option>

<option>Letting firearms become the monopoly of lawbreakers, far from enhancing public safety, is detrimental to it. Canada has gone out of its way to make criminals as invincible, and victims as vulnerable, as possible.<br>- '''George Jonas'''</option>

<option>Once is happenstance.<br>Twice is coincidence.<br>Three times is enemy action.<br>- '''Ian Fleming'''</option>

<option>Considering our history, of all the ethic groups on Earth, Jews should be the most dedicated group advocating the right to keep and bear arms.<br>- '''Aaron Zelman, [[JPFO]] founder'''</option>

<option>The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
<br>- '''William Pitt, 1763'''</option>

<option>Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
<br>- '''Ayn Rand'''</option>

<option>A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
<br>- '''Alexis de Tocqueville'''</option>

<option>To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding.
<br>- '''Jeff Snyder, Oct 20, 1994'''</option>
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