"The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'"
- Ken Konecki, July 27, 1992
* * *
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL
NOT be infringed."
2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution
* * *
"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and the keystone
under independence. The rifle and pistol are equally indispensable.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference -
they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."
- George Washington
* * *
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone that approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. The great object is that every
man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."
- Patrick Henry, speech of June 5, 1788
* * *
"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."
- Richard Henry Lee
* * *
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme
power in America cannot force unjust laws by the sword; because the whole of the people are armed, and constitute a force
superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States."
- Noah Webster
* * *
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson
* * *
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
* * *
"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, Gandhi, An Autobiography
* * *
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
- Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond the Horizon, 1942
* * *
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
- Patrick Henry
* * *
"Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
- Mao Tse Tung
* * *
"By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary."
- Jerry Rubin
* * *
"I love guns. I just get a sense of power. The karate and kickboxing was okay, but give me a gun and I can do serious damage."
- Milla Jovavich (San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 2002)
* * *
"Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is
like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces."
- Joseph T Chew
* * *
"[We] should not blame a gun itself for any crime or any acts of violence, any more than we can blame a pen for misspelling a word."
- Senator Wallace F. Bennett, Congressional Record, May 16, 1968
* * *
"Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand."
- Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
* * *
"What many do not understand is that the gun issue is not about guns. It's about values. It's about setting priorities.
It's about personal freedom. It's about trust."
- Senator Zell Miller
* * *
"The key word is "freedom", which
includes the freedom to own and use firearms, the freedom to trade and use the marketplace without restraint even if it
means serious injury to health and decency..."
- Edward Said
* * *
"My gun rights are more important than my gay rights. They're both
important, but people shouldn't assume that just because I'm gay, I should
buy into a certain political party, like the Democrats."
- Lisa Miner, member of the growing Pink Pistols gay gun-rights group,
Associated Press, 1/17/03
* * *
"Politicians and bureaucrats at every level nationwide are demanding hundreds of new gun prohibitions in possibly the highest
flood tide of anti-gun hysteria ever. As always, instead of focusing on the criminal and the system that abets him, they
attack firearms, touting their latest gun laws as 'first steps' in reducing cirme. But we've taken 20,000 anti-gun 'first
steps' already. All they've led us to is the highest violent crime rates in history; yet still politicians demand more."
- Robert Corbin, American Rifleman, May 1993
* * *
"[W]hen it comes to the lawless, politicians do nothing but huff and puff about crime, and pass yet more laws that disarm
the law-abiding and pry into our lives.... Wake up, America! Little by little, your freedom and safety are being robbed,
along with your last and best means to get them back. Don't be fooled: The gun debate isn't just about waiting periods,
semi-automatic bans, licensing, registration, handgun bans or the Second Amendment. It's about liberty, and the
fundamental beliefs that make democracy possible."
- Robert Corbin, American Rifleman, June 1993
* * *
"The Southern communities are just as peaceful and religious as the Northern. The Southern may be more highly cultured, and
anything he does is naturally conspicuous. Carrying a revolver is a fad, just a fad or a fashion; but the revolvers are mightly
harmless. Of course there are desperadoes on the frontier, but that is the only part of the world they live in. Their deeds give
a false character to their district. I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world."
- Mark Twain, "Mark Twain Put to the Question" interview, Adelaide South Australian Register, October 14, 1895
* * *
"Don't meddle with old unloaded firearms. They are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man. You
don't have to take any pains at all with them; you don't have to have a rest, you don't have to have any sights on the gun, you
don't have to take aim, even. No, you just pick out a relative and bang away, and you are sure to get them. A youth who can't hit
a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three-quarters of an hour, can take an old empty musket and bag his mother every
time at a hundred. Think what Waterloo would have been if one of the armies had been boys armed with old muskets supposed not to be
loaded, and the other army had been composed of their female relations. The very thought of it makes me shudder."
- Mark Twain, Advice to Youth speech, April 15, 1882
* * *
"I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homeopathic pill, and it
took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only
one fault -- you could not hit anything with it. One of our 'conductors' practiced awhile on a cow with it, and as long as she stood
still and behaved herself she was safe; but as soon as she went to moving about, and he got to shooting at other things, she came to grief."
- Mark Twain, Roughing It
* * *
"George Bemis... wore in his belt an old original 'Allen' revolver, such as irreverent people called a 'pepper-box.' Simply drawing the trigger
back, cocked and fired the pistol. As the trigger came back, the hammer would begin to rise and the barrel to turn over, and presently down would
drop the hammer, and away would speed the ball. To aim along the turning barrel and hit the thing aimed at was a feat which was probably never
done with an 'Allen' in the world. But George's was a reliable weapon, nevertheless, because, as one of the stage-drivers afterward said, 'If
she didn't get what she went after, she would fetch something else.' And so she did. She went after a deuce of spades nailed against a tree, once,
and fetched a mule standing about thirty yards to the left of it. Bemis didn't want the mule; but the owner came out with a double-barreled shotgun
and persuaded him to buy it, anyhow. It was a cheerful weapon -- the 'Allen.' Sometimes all its six barrels would go off at once, and then there was
no safe place in all the region round about, but behind it."
- Mark Twain, Roughing It
* * *
"History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall."
- Adolf Hitler, Edict of 18 March 1939
* * *
"Our task of creating a Socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
- Sarah Brady (?)
* * *
"I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns."
- Senator Howard Metzenbaum
* * *
"1935 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 to the future!"
- Adolf Hitler
* * *
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise
to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and other of that nature,
are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
- Thomas Jefferson
* * *
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which
must occasionally be raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are
confirmed by the next article [the Second Amendment] in their right to keep and bear arms."
- Trent Coxe, Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, 1789
* * *
"What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty...
Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia,
in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
- Rep. Eldbridge Gerry, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789
* * *
"We can manage without butter but not, for example, without guns. If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns,
not butter."
- Joseph Goebbels, speech, January 17, 1936
* * *
"A free people ought... to be armed..."
- George Washington, 1790
* * *
"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 military."
- William Burroughs, 1992
* * *
"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."
- Franz Grillparzer, 1848
* * *
"As long as there are guns, the individual who wants a gun for crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only
person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law abiding citizen, who then cannot have if he wants
protection - the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection."
- Ronald Reagan, 1986
* * *
"I think unity is a mistake... If I were the Establishment and held the big loaded guns of the various oppressive
institutions... I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice."
- Florynce R. Kennedy, 1976
* * *
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property...
Horrid mischief would ensure were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
- Thomas Paine, 1775
* * *
"Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants
had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense. ... "
- John Adams, 1770
* * *
". . . A well-regulated Militia, composed of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, and other Freemen was necessary to protect our ancient
laws and liberty from the standing army ... And we do each of us, for ourselves respectively, promise and engage to keep a
good Fire-lock in proper Order & to furnish Ourselves as soon as possible with, & always keep by us, one Pound of Gunpowder,
four Pounds of Lead, one Dozen Gun Flints, and a pair of Bullet Moulds, with a Cartouch Box, or powder horn, and Bag for Balls/"
- George Mason, Fairfax County Militia Plan
* * *
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
- George Mason
* * *
"To disarm the people [is] the best and most effective way to enslave them."
- George Mason
* * *
"... It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no
contorl ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no Danger of their making use of their power to the
destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them."
- Samuel Adams
* * *
"They tell us ... that we are weak - unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? ... Will
it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? ... Three million people,
armed in the holy cause of liberty ... are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us."
- Patrick Henry
* * *
"... No free man shall be debarred the use of arms within his ouwn land."
- Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, 1776
* * *
"Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed - unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid
to trust the people with arms."
- James Madison
* * *
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined."
- George Washington
* * *
"The National Rifle Association is perhaps correct and certainly is plausible in its 'strong' reading of the Second Amendment
protection of private gun ownership. Therefore gun control advocates who want to square their policy preferences with the
Constitution should squarely face the need to deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrassing amendment."
- George Will, March 21, 1991
* * *
"Unfortunately, there is the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
"The purpose of the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee was pretty clear to protect political discourse. But liberals
reject the notion that free speech is therefore limited to political topics, even broadly defined. True, that purpose in
not inscribed in the amendment itself. But why leap to the conclusion that a broadly worded constitutional freedom ('the
right of the people to keep and bear arms') is narrowly limited by its stated purpose, unless you're trying to explain it
away? My New Republic colleague Mickey Kaus says that if liberals interpreted the Second Amendment the way they interpret
the rest of the Bill of Rights, there would be law professors arguing that gun ownership is mandatory."
- Michael Kinsley, Washington Post, January 8, 1990
* * *
"[W]hen the Constitution means 'states' it says so ... The ultimate right to keep and bear arms belongs to 'the people,'
not the 'states.' ... Thus the 'people' at the core of the Second Amendment [a]re [the] Citizens - the same 'We the People'
who 'ordain and establish' the Constitution and whose right to assemble ... [is] at the core of the First Amendment. ...
Nowadays, it is quite common to speak loosely of the National Guard as 'the state militia,' but [when the Second Amendment
was written] ... 'the militia' referred to all Citizens capable of bearing arms. [Thus] 'the militia' is identical to 'the
people' ... "
- Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar
* * *
"Gun nuts are unconvincing (at least to me) in their attempts to argue that the individual right to bear arms is still as
vital to freedom as it was in 1792. But the right is still there."
- Michael Kinsley, Anti-Gun Nut
* * *
"The Second Amendment was meant to accomplish two distinct goals. ... First, it was meant to guarantee the individual's
right to have arms for self-defense and self-preservation ... These privately owned arms were meant to serve a larger
purpose [militial service] as well ... and it is the coupling of these two objectives that has caused the most confusion.
The customary American militia necessitated an armed public ... the militia [being] ... the body of the people ... The
arguement that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled
to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation."
- Professor Joyce Malcolm, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, 1994
* * *
"When James Madison and his colleagues drafted the Bill of Rights they ... firmly believed in two distinct principles:
(1) Individuals had the right to possess arms to defend themselves and their property; and (2) states retained the right to
maintain militias composed of these individually armed citizens ... Clearly, these men believed that the perpetuation of a
republican spirit and character in their society depeneded upon the freeman's possession of arms as well as his ability and
willingness to defend both himself and his society."
- Professor Robert Shalhope, Journal of American History, 1982
* * *
"False is the idea of ultility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifiling 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 those only who are neither
inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws
of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with
ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty - so dear to men, so dear to the
enlightened legislator - and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the quality alone ought to suffer? Such laws
make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides,
for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. They ought to be designated as laws not
preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful
consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree."
- Cesare Beccaria
* * *
"... that the [federal] Constitution be never construed to prevent the people who are peaceable citizens from keeping
their own arms."
- Samuel Adams
* * *
"It has been argued that 'assault weapons' are far more deadly than 18th Century arms. Actually, modern medical technology
makes them far less deadly than blunderbusses were in the 18th Century. (In fact, 'assault weapons' are less deadly - and
far less often used in crime - than ordinary shotguns or hunting rifles.)"
- Rutgers law professor Robert Cottrol
* * *
"If the Bill of Rights is to continue, we must apply its spirit even as conditions change. That is the nub of the Second
Amendment controversy: Modern intellectuals who tend to feel self-defense is barbaric - that government should have a
monopoly of arms with the people being dependent on it for protection - have difficulty accepting the Founders' diametrically
opposite views."
- Robert Cottrol & Don Kates, "Founders Backed Gun Ownership," Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y., March 3, 1993
* * *
"As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the
means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the
master, not the servant of the people...
"The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people, such that its repeal would legitimately confer upon government
the powers otherwise proscribed. The Bill of Rights is the list of the fundamental, inalienable rights, endowed in man by
his Creator, that define what it means to be a free and independent people, the rights which must exist to ensure that
government governs only with the consent of the people."
- Jeff Snyder, "A Nation of Cowards," Public Interest, Fall 1993
* * *
"An analysis of a U.S. Justice Department victimization study found that in the categories of robbery and assault. 'victims
who used guns for protection were less likely either to be attacked or injured than victims who responded in any other way,
including those who did not resist at all,' and 'victims who resisted robbers with guns .. were less likely to lose their
property ... When victims use guns to resist crimes, the crimes usually are disrupted and the victims are not injured.'"
- Wayne LaPierre, Guns, Crime, and Freedom, 1994
* * *
"It is both illogical and inconsistent for a government to say people have a right to life and a right to self-defense but
no right to own the tools necessary to defend their lives.
"It is illogical for a government that says its police have no obligation to provide individual protection to deny the people
the means to protect themselves.
"It is immoral for a government that repeatedly releases predators to prey on people to tell those victims they cannot have
a weapon for self-defense.
"It is stupid for a government that can't control criminals, drugs or illegal immigrants to claim it can take guns away from
criminals only if honest folks will give up theirs.
"Gun-control proposals are also an insult. Gun control by definition affects only honest people. When a politician tells you
he wants to forbid you from owning a firearm or force you to get a license, he is telling you he doesn't trust you. That's
an insult.
"The government trusted me with a M-48 tnak and assorted small arms when it claimed to have need of my services. It trusts
common Americans with all kinds of arms when it wants them to go kill foreigners somewhere - usually for the financial
benefit of some corporations.
"But when the men and women take off their uniforms and return to their homes and assume responsibility for their own and
their families' safety, suddenly the politicians don't trust them to own a gun. This is pure elitism. Elitists think we
common folk are stupid or mad and that if we have a firearm, we are going to shoot the checkout girl at the supermarket when
she makes a mistake at the register. Or, knowing what they intend for our future, maybe they fear we would shoot them.
"The fact that gun control is an elitist effort at people control is easily verifiable. Go to New York or any big city and
see who gets the gun permits. The small shopkeeper or the retail clerk actually exposed to crime? NO, the elite, like William
F. Buckley and the publisher of The New York Times.
"Gun control is not about guns or crime. It is about an elite that fears and despises the common people...."
- Charley Reese, March 31, 1994
* * *
"[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws
of society."
- Sir William Blackstone
* * *
The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its
ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a
peaceful manner."
Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session (February 1982)
* * *
"The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they
tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it."
James A. Donald
* * *
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns
doesn't serve the State."
Heinrich Himmler
* * *
"I am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over
which we have absolutely no control."
George L. Roman
* * *
"Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their
liberty and property. And no 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds
of iron to even things out
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 a social
democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work."
L. Neil Smith (from The Probability Broach)
* * *
"The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms
or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to
permit uprising."
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese Shogun, August 29, 1558
* * *
The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or
killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood
of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens even if you don't own a gun yourself."
Harry Browne
* * *
"Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm
always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who
wins."
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, whose testimony convicted John Gotti
* * *
" I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions or else it would have read that the right "to keep and
bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with
my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong
because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience."
Harry Browne, meetings with NRA's EVP, Wayne LaPierre and other panelists at a gun rights rally in Hot Springs, AR, 8/8/2000
* * *
"The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use."
Michael Dertouzos
* * *
"The pattern is as old as human life. The new rulers use more and more force, more police, more soldiers, trying to enforce
more efficient control, trying to make the planned economy work by piling regulations on regulations, decree on decree. The
people are hungry and hungrier. And how does a man on this earth get butter? Doesn't the government give butter? But
government does not produce food from the earth; Government is guns. It is one common distinction of all civilized peoples,
that they give their guns to the Government. Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using
their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use."
Rose Wilder Lane
* * *
" 'A well-crafted pepperoni pizza, being necessary to the preservation of a diverse menu, the right of the people to keep
and cook tomatoes, shall not be infringed.'
"I would ask you to try to argue that this statement says that only pepperoni pizzas can keep and cook tomatoes, and only
well-crafted ones at that. This is basically what the so-called states rights people argue with respect to the
well-regulated militia, vs. the right to keep and bear arms."
Bruce Tiemann
* * *
"Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes
what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun."
Tom Clancy
* * *
"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them."
Walter Mondale
* * *
"Try to halt violence by restricting gun ownership and you won't halt violence. But you will create entire classes of new
criminals people who make paperwork errors, violate technical specification of the law, or rebel against the new
restrictions. And you'll create new bureaus, new enforcement arms, new prisons to punish them. You'll make hordes of
lawyers and bureaucrats very happy. Organized criminals will be grateful to the naive moral crusaders ("useful idiots") as
they profit by selling an illegal product. And ordinary street criminals will bless fools, legislators, and "leaders" for
making their job so much safer."
Jews for the Protection of Firearm Ownership
(JPFO), "Bill of Rights Sentinel", Fall 2001.
* * *
"Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave."
Andrew Fletcher 1698
* * *
"This country was founded by religious nuts with guns."
P.J. O'Rourke
* * *
"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 a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by
encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like."
Alan Dershowitz, in The Conceptual Foundations of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in Religion and Reason, 82 Mich L. Rev., 204 (Dan Gifford), 1995
* * *
"Gun registration is a gateway drug."
Mark Gilmore
* * *
"Each and every time someone says 'there ought to be a law' they are saying that men with guns should enforce their will
on innocent others."
Michael Barnett
* * *
"The Second Amendment is the Equal Rights Amendment."
Jannalee Tobias
* * *
"Suppose the Second Amendment said 'A well-educated electorate being necessary for self-governance in a free state, the
right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed.' Is there anyone who would suggest that means only
registered voters have a right to read?"
Robert Levy, Georgetown University professor
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