| Are we at last brought to such humiliating and
debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
... 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?
Patrick Henry
As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. Ronald Reagan
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose. James Earl Jones
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws Michael Badnarik
The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits. ... and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction. St. George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court 1803
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state. Aristotle |