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<option>A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. | <option>A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. | ||
<br>- '''Alexis de Tocqueville'''</option> | <br>- '''Alexis de Tocqueville'''</option> | ||
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| + | <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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Revision as of 17:54, 19 September 2014
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.
- Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 20
