Taking my gun away because I *might* shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I *might* yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. -- Peter Venetoklis ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1998 more than three times as many people in the US were killed by incompetent physicians than were killed by handguns, yet the President of the A.M.A. is adopting "gun safety" as his platform. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The ["assault weapons"] ban is the moral equivalent of banning red cars because they look too fast. -- Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no doubt in my mind that millions of lives could have been saved if the people were not "brainwashed" about gun ownership and had been well armed. ... Gun haters always want to forget the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which is a perfect example of how a ragtag, half-starved group of Jews took 10 handguns and made asses out of the Nazis. -- Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -- Cesare Beccaria, quoted by Thomas Jefferson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberals love sex ed because it teaches kids to be safe around their sex organs. Conservatives love gun education because it teaches kids to be safe around guns. However, both believe that the other's education goals lead to dangers too terrible to contemplate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- People seem to have this obsession with objects and tools as being dangerous in and of themselves, as though a weapon will act of its own accord to cause harm. A weapon is just a force multiplier. It's *humans* that are (or are not) dangerous. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. -- L. Neil Smith ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. -- the Dalai Lama, May 15, 2001 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A sword is never a killer, it is but a tool in the killer's hands. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Martial) 4BC-65AD ----------------------------------------------------------------------- W-w-w-w-w-where did he learn to n-n-negotiate like that? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gun Control is nothing more than an attempt to return to feudalism, where the peasants are helpless and must humbly petition their lord and master to protect them from bandits and thieves (when they can get around to it), and where the lords and masters can abuse the peasants whenever they like without fear of effective resistance. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Phobias should not be the basis for laws. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gun Control is marketed to the public using the appealing delusion that violent criminals will obey the law. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gun Control laws aren't enacted to control guns, they are enacted to control people: catholics (1500s), japanese peasants (1600s), the irish (1920s), jews (1930s), blacks (1960s), the poor (always) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gun Control laws cannot reduce violent crime, because gun control laws focus obsessively on a tool a criminal might use to commit a crime rather than the criminal himself and his act of violence. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gun Control laws cannot reduce violent crime, because gun control laws assume a violent criminal will obey the law. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ...in the 2nd amendment the right to arms clause means you have the right to choose how many arms you want, and the militia clause means that Congress can punish you if the answer is "none." -- David Hardy, 2nd Amendment scholar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If guns kill people, then... -- pencils miss spel words. -- cars make people drive drunk. -- spoons make people fat. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Judicial Activism (n): interpreting the Constitution to grant the government powers that are popularly felt to be "needed" but that are not explicitly provided for therein (common definition); interpreting the Constitution as it is written (Brady definition) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It is sadly humorous that those who are the most shrilly vocal about bemoaning the increasing violations of civil liberties by the federal government and comparing the president to Hitler are also those who are working hardest to ensure the citizens of our nation are disarmed and unable to effectively resist that same government. Who do these people think will protect them from the Jackbooted Thugs they are so worried about? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Constitution is a written instrument. As such its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now. -- U.S. Supreme Court SOUTH CAROLINA v. US, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The one political issue that strips all politicians bare is individual gun rights. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If guards and searches and metal detectors can't keep a gun out of a maximum-security solitary confinement prisoner's cell, how will a disciplinary policy and some signs keep guns out of a university? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A superior gunman is one who uses his superior judgment to keep himself out of situations that would require the use of his superior skills. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The third basic rule of firearms safety: Keep your booger hook off the bang switch! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ...worship and ignorance go hand in hand. Hollywood's cluelessness about firearms is not unlike that of the prehistoric shaman who is convinced that the best way to stop the ground from shaking and the lava from flowing is to toss a virgin into the volcano's smoking maw. -- John Snow ----------------------------------------------------------------------- An AR-15 in civilian hands used to defend a home or business: a High Velocity Assault Weapon with High Capacity Magazine An AR-15 in Law Enforcement Officer hands used to murder six kids: a Police-Style rifle ----------------------------------------------------------------------- How can you reason with someone who thinks we're on a glidepath to a police state and yet their solution is to grant the government a monopoly on force? They are insane. -----------------------------------------------------------------------