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     Religious  Leaders:

“When the strong man, fully armed,  guards his courtyard,  his property is undisturbed.
“He that hath no sword,  let him sell his garment,  and buy one.”
   – Jesus Christ   ( Luke 11:21,  :36         Luke 22:36-38;      John 15:13 )

“If someone comes to kill you,  rise quickly and kill him.”
   – Talmud,  ( Vol. 2, 72a. )

“David said to his men,  ‘Every man gird on his sword.’  So every man girded on his sword,
   David also girded on his sword”
   – 1 Sam  25:13

“If the thief is found breaking in,  and he is struck so that he dies,  there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed.”
   – Exodus  22:2-3

“A righteous man who falters before the wicked is like a murky spring and a polluted well.”
   – Proverbs  25:26

“If someone has a weapon and is trying to kill you,  it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
   – Dalai Lama

“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

 

“Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another’s life,  the common good of the family or of the State.  Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life.  In this case,  the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose actions brought it about,  even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason.               
“The inalienable dignity of every human being and the rights which flow from that dignity - in the first place the right to life and the defense of life - are at the heart of the church's message.”
   – Pope John Paul II,  1995  Evangelium Vitae

You may not believe in God.
It’s your choice.
You may not believe in guns.
It’s your choice.

But if a vicious burglar,  possibly high on drugs,  breaks into your home:

1. You’re going to call someone with a gun.

2. Pray they get there in time.

“Those who rebuilt the gates and walls of Jerusalem, and those who carried burdens loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon. Every one of the builders had his sword girded at his side as he built.”
   – Neh. 4:17-18

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      US  Presidents: 

 

“Every gun that is made,
 every warship launched,
 every missile fired,
 signifies, in a final sense,
 a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
 From those who are cold and are not clothed.”
   –   Pres.   Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism. If we go over the whole history of ancient and modern republics, we shall find their destruction to have generally resulted from those causes.”
   –  Pres  James Madison, 1788

 

“I cannot bring myself to depict the humiliation to which this Government and people might be sooner or later reduced, if the means for defending their rights are to be made dependant upon those who may have the most powerful of motives to impair them.”
   –  Pres Martin Van Buren,   1839

“Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and has been implanted in the heart of man by his Creator, for the wisest purpose; and no political union, however fraught with blessings and benefits in all other respects, can long continue, if the necessary consequence be to render the homes and the firesides of nearly half the parties to it habitually and hopelessly insecure.”
   –  Pres  James Buchanan,  1860

“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves,
 and,  under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
“Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of  amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside.
“If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
“This country, with its’ institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it,
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts,
 not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
   –  Pres  Abraham Lincoln

“It may be safely assumed, as an axiom in the government of States, that the greatest wrongs inflicted upon a people are caused by unjust and arbitrary legislation, or by the unrelenting decrees of despotic rulers, and that the timely revocation of injurious and oppressive measures is the greatest good that can be conferred upon a nation. The legislator or ruler who has the wisdom and magnanimity to retrace his steps, when convinced of error, will sooner or later be rewarded with the respect and gratitude of an intelligent and patriotic people.”
   –  Pres  Andrew Johnson,   1868

“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power.”
   –  Pres  Woodrow Wilson

 

“I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted.
 The Bill of Rights,  contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution,
 is every American’s guarantee of freedom.
“If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.”
   –  Pres  Harry S. Truman

“I believe in punishing only those who commit crimes. I am unalterably opposed to the federal registration of guns or the licensing of gun owners. It has been my long–held belief that these measures would be futile in attempting to stop the criminal. Instead they would treat law–abiding citizens as potential criminals. Those who intend to use guns for criminal purposes will never conform to legal requirements of any sort. In short, it is my intention to preserve for future generations the time–honored traditional freedoms that we and our forefathers have enjoyed throughout our two hundred year history.”
   –  Pres  Gerald Ford

“As long as there are guns,  the individual that wants a gun for crime is going to get it and have one.  The only person who’s going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen,  who then cannot have a weapon for home protection.
“We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.
“Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed;
  they are armed because they mistrust each other.”
   –  Pres  Ronald Reagan

“Law–abiding adults should always be free to own guns and protect their homes.
“The road to tyranny,  we must never forget,  begins with the destruction of the truth.”
“We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.”
   –  Pres  Bill Clinton,  discussing his opposition to the National Rifle Association.
   –   see also:  The Meaning of the Word:  “IS”

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.  If you can control the meaning of words,  you can control the people who must use the words.”
   –  Philip K. Dick

“The right of the citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safe–guard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America,  but which historically has proved to be always possible.”
   –  VP  Hubert Humphrey

“We’ve had enough Boobs in the White House.”
   –  Dolly Parton,   When asked if she would consider running for President

 

                                 

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     Supreme Court

“The Constitution does not  ‘create’  the right to keep and bear arms at all,
 but merely recognizes a pre–existing common–law and natural Right.”
   –  Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell,  citing 
       ( U. S. v. Cruikshank,   Robertson v. Baldwin,   U. S. v. Miller )

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms is not a right granted by the Constitution.
  Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.
   The Second Amendment declares that it shall not be infringed,
     it shall not be infringed by Congress.”
   –  Supreme Court Chief Justice Woods

“The signification attributed to the term ‘Militia’ appears from the delegates in the convention, the history and legislation of colonies and states, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.  ‘A body of citizens enrolled for military discipline.’  And further, that ordinarily when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.”
   –  Supreme Court Justice McReynolds

“It would be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated  ‘Militia.’  Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms means just that.”
   –  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

“Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberties by evil–minded rulers.  The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal,  well–meaning but without understanding.”
   –  Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency,
  when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.” 
   –  Justice Thurgood Marshall,    Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Assn.   1989 

“The Second Amendment protects the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation. ‘The people’  unambiguously refers to all members of the political community.  The inherent right of self-defense has been central to the Second Amendment right.  The handgun ban amounts to a prohibition of an entire class of  ‘arms’ that is overwhelmingly chosen by American Society for that lawful purpose.
“The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.” 
   –  Supreme Court   ( District of Columbia vs. Heller )

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did,  and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.”
   –  Justice Frederick Douglas

“The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic Usurpation of Power by rulers. The Right of the Citizens to Keep and Bear Arms has JUSTLY been considered, as the PALLADIUM of the LIBERTIES of The Republic; since it offers a strong moral check Against the Usurpation and Arbitrary Power of Rulers; and will generally  Enable the People to Resist and Triumph over Them.”
   –  Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story,   1833.

“Ours is a sick profession. A profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct, and bad manners.  Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day.”
   –  Chief Justice Warren Burger

“The prosecutor will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted.  With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes,  a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone.  In such a case,  it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it,  it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work,  to pin some offense on him.  It is in this realm in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass,  or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense,  that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies.  It is here that law enforcement becomes personal,  and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views,  or being personally obnoxious to, or in the way of,  the prosecutor himself.”
   –  Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson

“I always turn to the sports page first.
 The sports page records people’s accomplishments;
 the front page nothing but man’s failures.”
   –  Chief Justice Earl Warren 

“Convicted felons can neither be forced to register their guns,  nor be prosecuted for failing to register,  because to do so would violate their Fifth Amendment Rights against self-incrimination.”
   –  U. S. Supreme Court,   ( Haynes vs. US,   1968 )

“There is no constitutional right to be protected by the state (or Federal) against being murdered by criminals or madmen.  It is monstrous if the state fails to protect its residents against such predators but it does not violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, or, we suppose, any other provision of the Constitution.
The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties:  it tells the state (gov’t) to let people alone; it does not require the federal government or the state to provide services,  even so elementary a service as maintaining law and order.”
   –  (Bowers v. DeVito,  U.S. Court of Appeals,  Seventh Circuit,  686F.2d 616 [1982]).

“Nothing was further from the minds of the Framers of the Constitution, than that the supreme Court should ever make the Supreme Law of the Land.”
   –  Chief Justice Marlin T. Phelps,   Arizona Supreme Court

“The Second Amendment secures a personal right of individuals,  not a collective right that may only be invoked by a State or a quasi-collective right restricted to those persons who serve in organized militia units.”
   –  Dept of Justice,  Office of Legal Counsel

“The entire philosophy behind the Bill of Rights is that we don’t trust government on its own say-so.
  We have a system of checks and balances to make sure abuses are kept to an absolute minimum.”
   –  Timothy Lynch,  Director of the Criminal Justice Project,  Cato Institute

 

“State disarmament of citizens frequently served to enable one social or economic class to suppress another, as witness Charles II’s disarming of Protestant subjects in England. The common law tradition, as Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England articulates it, favored the citizen’s right to possess and carry arms for both collective defense and individual self-defense. The Founding Fathers had learned a painful lesson in how entrenched states may assault the liberty of disarmed citizens during the Revolutionary War. The British Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, General Gage, sought to hamstring armed protest and the formation of the rebel’s citizen militia by his attempts to disarm the colonists and confiscate their magazines of arms.
“If either federal or state government invaded private rights, The Federalist No. 28 argued for the deterrent of an armed people.  Private individuals were entitled to bear arms even apart from membership in the militia.
 Chief Justice Earl Warren has noted how much the Revolutionary War was a protest against government standing armies and was largely fought by a civilian army,  the militia.”
   –  Leonard P. Liggio,   Literature of Liberty:  Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought,  Cato Institute

 

“The argument 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.”
   –  Joyce Lee Malcolm,  Harvard Law and NEH Fellow,  To Keep and Bear Arms,  Harvard University Press   1994

“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.”
   –  Walter Williams,   Professor of Economics,   George Mason University.

“John Adams was deadly serious when he remarked,

‘I have come to the conclusion that:

• one useless man is a disgrace,

• two useless men are called a Law Firm,

• three or more are called a Congress.

• Nine are called a Supreme Court.’ ”

   –  Ben Shapiro

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     Ancient  Authorities:

 

“The development of an oligarchy into a democracy requires that the common people be armed.”
   –  Plato,  The Republic

“Indeed, gentlemen,  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 but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; 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.”
   –  Marcus Tullius Cicero

“War does  *Not*  determine who is   *Right,*
  War determines who is  *Left.*
   An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”
   –  Confucius       [ K'ung Fu Tze ]

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”
   –  Æsop

“Both the Oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people,  and therefore deprive them of arms.
It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor,  so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion.  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.

“Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please.  Thus,  there are no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army,  and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.”
   –  Aristotle

“The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.”
    –  Ovid

“Where you find the laws most numerous,  there you will find also the greatest injustice.”
   –  Arcesilaus

“Death is better,  a milder fate than tyranny.”
   –  Æschylus,  Agamemnon,  I, 1364

“Laws are like spider webs.  If some poor weak creature comes up against them it is caught.
  But the bigger one can break through and get away.”
   –  Solon,   sixth century B.C.

“As soon as laws are necessary for men,  they are no longer fit for freedom.”
   –  Pythagoras

“To plunder, to slaughter,  to steal,  these things they misname empire,
 and where they make a wasteland,  they call it peace.”
   –  Tacitus,  c. 55-120 A.D.

“Peace without justice is tyranny.”
   –  Old Chinese proverb

“A weapon which you don’t have in your hand won’t kill a snake”
   –  African Proverb 

“Private Citizens bearing their own arms constitute the  ‘regular and well–ordered militia without which people cannot live in security.’  But when you disarm them, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them.

“Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.”
“Before all else, be armed.”
   –  Niccolo Machiavelli

“One who would disobey laws against murder would surely disobey laws against carrying arms.  Disarming a potential victim of murder may be capital punishment of the victim,  a form of cruel and unusual punishment far worse than that inflicted upon the offender.”
   –  Cesare Beccaria

“A covenant not to defend my selfe from force,  is always voyd.”
   –  Thomas Hobbes

“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
   –  Sigmund Freud,  Introduction to Psychoanalysis

“The deprivation of the right to bear arms is a requisite for conquest.”
   –  Julius Caesar

 

“Of each particular thing ask:  What is it in itself?  What is its nature?  What does he do,  this man you seek?”
Answers:	(As applied to the typical  “gun control”  politician)
What is it in itself?	CONTROL.
What is its nature?	HUNGERING for more POWER.
What does he do?	Effect domination of the sheeple by use of mass hysteria,
	misinformation and downright lies.
–  Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus,     “Meditations”

“Men are not hanged for stealing horses,  but that horses not be stolen.”
   –  Lord Halifax

“Ammunition beats persuasion when you are Looking for Freedom.
“America died from a delusion She had Moral Leadership.”
   –  Will Rogers

“No man’s life,  liberty,  or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
 My kind of loyalty is loyalty to one’s country,
 not to its institutions  or its officeholders.”
   –  Mark Twain   1866

 

                   

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
 In general,  the art of government consists in taking as much money
  as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.”
   –  Voltaire

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics
doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!”
   –  Pericles     430 B.C.

“GOD grants liberty only to those who love it and always stand ready to guard and defend it.”
   –  Daniel Webster

“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,  Shogun,   1558

 

“It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law.
  This is the usual form in which the classes exhibit their tyranny.”
   –  James Fenimore Cooper

“In these modern times,  many men are wounded
 for not having weapons or knowledge of their use.”
  –  Achille Marozzo,  1536

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
  Great men are almost always bad men.”
  –  Lord Acton,  Letter to Bishop Creighton,  1887

“Of all tyrannies,  a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims is the most oppressive.
  It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.
  The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated;
  but  those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, 
  for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
   –  C. S. Lewis

“There are none so enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
 “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
   –  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.”
   –  Bertrand Barère   1792

“Tyranny Laws:

1. Any power that can be abused will be abused.
2. Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it.
3. If people don’t resist the abuses of others,
   they will have no one to resist the abuses of themselves,
   and tyranny will prevail.”
      –  Constitution Society

“We may acquire liberty,  but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
   –  Rosseau

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
   –  Wendell Philips

“For we may not think ever to keep that people in subjection which hath always lived in liberty, if they be not disarmed.”
   –  Jean Bodin,  Six Books of a Commonweale,  1606  

“Those rights,  then,  which God and nature have established,  and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate.  On the contrary,  no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them,  unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.”
   –  Sir William Blackstone,    Commentaries on the Laws of England   (1765)

“This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.
  The Right of self-defense is the First Law of Nature.”
   –  St. George Tucker,  Blackstone’s Commentaries,   1803

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
  It is the argument of tyrants,  it is the creed of slaves.”
   –  British Prime Minister William Pitt,  late 1700s.

“The Novatian peasants, animated by despair and religious fury,  boldly encountered the invaders of their country; and, though many of the Paphlagonians were slain,  the Roman Legions were vanquished by an irregular multitude,  armed only with scythes and axes;  and,  except a few who escaped by an ignominious flight,  four thousand soldiers were left dead on the field of battle.”
   –  Edward Gibbon,   “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” 

“Every Man has a Property in his own Person.  This no Body has any Right to but himself.  The Labour of his Body,  and the Work of his Hands,  we may say, are properly his.  The great and chief end therefore,  of Mens uniting into Commonwealths,  and putting themselves under Government,  is the Preservation of their Property.”
   –  John Locke,   Late  1600s;   Treatise Concerning Civil Government

“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.”
   –  Andrew Fletcher,   A Discourse of Government Militias in Political Works,   1749

“The world is a dangerous place to live,  not because of the people who are evil,
   but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
 “I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country.
  I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom,
  a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.
 “All true democrats must stand guard,
  lest the old class tyranny of the right be replaced by a new class tyranny of the left.”
   –  Albert Einstein

 NB.  This has already happened.   see:  “Political Correctness”

“Any one who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Federal Government take care of him had better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
   –  Zachariah Johnson,   1788

 

                                

I  *Never*  Saw an American Flag Burned at a Gun Show.           

I  *Never*  Heard of a Terrorist Attacking a Gun Show.        

 

 

                   

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“The Second Amendment is the Statute of Liberty.
“Weapons are the tools of power.
 In the hands of the state,  they can be the tools of Decency.
 In the hands of criminals,  they are the tools of Evil.
 In the hands of the free and decent citizen,  they are the tools of  Liberty.
 Weapons compound man’s ability to achieve whatever purpose he may have.
 They amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, 
    and to exactly the same degree,   having no will of their own.
 Thus we must regard them as servants,   not masters and good servants of good men.
 Without them man is diminished,  and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened.
  An unarmed man can only flee from evil,
  and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
“Remember the first rule of gunfighting  . . .  have a gun.”
   –  Col.  Jeff Cooper

 “An Armed Society is a Polite Society.
 “Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, 
   and the contrary opinion is wishful  thinking at its worst.
  Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.”
   –  Robert A. Heinlein

“Guns do not make you a killer.  Killing makes you a killer.
 You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car,  but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.”
   –  Andy Rooney

“Gun Control Laws are like Government Bureaucrats;
   it’s tough to find one that is working.”
   –  Mallard Fillmore

“The government was set to protect man from criminals,
 The Constitution was written to protect man from the government.”
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual.
 Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
   –  Ayn Rand 

“Liberals,  it has been said,  are generous with other peoples’ money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples’ freedom and security.”
   –  William F. Buckley

“Gun control has not worked in D.C.  The only people who have guns are criminals. 
 We have the strictest gun laws 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.”
   –  Lowell Duckett,  Special Assistant to D.C. Police Chief

“Since 1976,  it’s been illegal in Washington,  D.C. to own any handguns or to keep any type of gun fully assembled in your home.  Nevertheless,  Washington, D.C., has one of the highest murder rates in the nation.  New York City has had a virtual ban on firearms since 1967,  yet it also ranks among the most dangerous places in the country to live. 
In both New York and Washington,  violent criminals can easily obtain machine guns and other deadly weapons on the streets within minutes. Why does increased violence go hand-in-hand with gun control laws?  The reason is that disarmed people make easy targets.”
   –  Jarret Wollstein

“Police Veterans who train police for confronting  ‘Active Killers’  that attack innocent people in  *supposedly*  gun free zones have confirmed that many mass murders have occurred in places where guns are prohibited, either by law or institutional policies.  Someone who’s intent on committing mass murder isn’t going to be deterred  by a sign that tells them they can’t have a gun. 
The facts point to the active shooters ignoring gun prohibitions, 
even selecting those locations because they are where no resistance will be found.
   –  Brendan Keefe,  reporter,  WCPO-TV,  Cincinnati

“Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country.  Americans have,  to begin with,  a constitutionally guaranteed right to gun ownership.  Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns;  and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner.  To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task.  So if you’re really committed to the effort,  and you want to win,  what do you do? 
   Simple:  You  lie .”
   –  Dave Kopel 

“No amount of lies make something a fact.”
   –  James Randi

“You are entitled to your opinions,
   but not to your own facts.”
   –  Sen.  Daniel Moyniham

“I carry a gun all the time.  I don’t carry that gun just because I have a badge. 
 I carry a gun all the time because I am aware of what kind of world we live in.”
   –  Evan Marshall,  Detroit Police Officer

“It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”
   –  Charles A. Beard

“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.”
   –  Edmund Burke

“I am scared of empty guns and keep mine loaded at all times.
 The family knows the guns are loaded and treats them with respect.
 Loaded guns cause few accidents;  empty guns kill people every year.”
   –  Elmer Keith,  1961

 “They’ll have to shoot me first to take my gun.”
   –  Roy Rogers

“A Gun Is a Tool.”
   –  Shane

“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”
   –  Daniel Boone

“An armed America is a strong America.  To be a good American you need to shoot well, 
  observe the laws and take your family shooting & hunting.
   Guns are the American Way.”
   –  Herb Parsons,  exhibition shooter

“Gun control is too often the refuge of scoundrels in our government who have pretended to be helpless while millions of jobs slipped away, the public education system fell apart and affordable housing and social programs in the cities became a dangerous joke. The political talk about gun control and fighting crime has become a smoke screen for avoiding the failure of this society to cut in a significant portion of its citizens on the essential action.
Crime is the only inner-city jobs program left that still works.”
   –  Robert Scheer

“Self-defense is the clearest of all laws,  and for this reason:
  Lawyers didn’t make it.”
  –  Douglas William Jerrold

“During these last five centuries of modern warring, of which the twentieth century is already the most murderous era,  the nation-state has developed into the most demonic and destructive force of all.
Not just the monstrous and dehumanizing acts of totalitarian governments, but also the illegal acts of legitimate governments have become a grievous burden to men and women of conscience.
Indeed, the worst curse of the age has become the pattern of illegality and injustice of which the modern nation-states are the chief instruments.”
  –  Franklin H. Littell

“Amereica now looks like the most dangerous country in the World.   Other Countries feel that,  at any moment,  America may intervene in their internal affairs with the same consequences as have followed from American Intervention in SouthEast Asia.   Interference in the internal affairs of one nation by another is an unpardonable violation of Internal Law and Custom.”
  –  Arnold Toynbee,   British Historian

“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority.  It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
 There are men in all ages who mean to govern well,  but they mean to govern.
  They promise to be good masters,  but they mean to be masters.”
  –  Daniel Webster

“In every age it has been the Tyrant, the Oppressor and the Exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, of religion,  or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
  –  Eugene V. Debs,    American labor activist

“RESIST MUCH, OBEY LITTLE,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved.  Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this Earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.”
  –  Walt Whitman

“American democracy is little more than a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
  –  Helen Keller

 

“At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time?
 Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?
At Ruby Ridge,  there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain.  Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms?  What kind of mentality does that?
“Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations.
  It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.”
   –  Clint Eastwood

 

“Now, if you want a more recent event, take a look at what they did in Waco, TX.  Is that a defensible event?
Scores of Americans were killed because of ineptitude and crass misbehavior of the BATF acting under legal process, as they said, and that the whole matter is going to be suppressed.”
   –  US  Rep.  John D. Dingell

 

“The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.”
   –  Ted Nugent

 

“I knew one thing:
  As soon as anyone says you don’t need a gun,
  you’d better take one along that worked.”
  –  Raymond Chandler

“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim  —  when he defends himself  —  as a criminal.”
   –  Frederic Bastiat,    “The Law”

“The Only Thing that stops a bad guy with a gun,  is a good guy with with a gun.
  The only thing  ‘Gun Free’  zones do is guarantee defenseless victims.”
   –  Wayne LaPierre,    NRA

“Gun-control advocates tell us that removing guns from society makes us safer.  But that is simply an impossibility. The fact is that firearm technology exists.  It cannot be uninvented.  As long as there is metalworking and welding capability,  it matters not what gun laws are imposed upon law-abiding people.  Those who wish to have guns,  and disregard the law,  will have guns.
Paradoxically,  gun control clears a path for violence and makes aggression more likely,  whether the aggressor is a terrorist or a government.  I don’t really believe ‘gun-free’ zones make any difference.  If they did,  why do the worst shootings consistently happen in gun-free zones such as schools?  While accidents do happen, aggressive,  terroristic shootings like this are unheard of at gun and knife shows,  the antithesis of a gun-free zone.   It bears repeating that an armed society truly is a polite society.
Even if you don’t like guns and don’t want to own them,  you benefit from those who do.”
   –  Ron Paul,   congressman

“An armed citizenry is one way to effectively confront terrorists bent on carrying out massacres at ‘soft targets.’
  If it was Texas,  would terrorists be able to spend hours shooting people randomly?”
   –  Ronald Noble, Interpol General Secretary & former undersecretary of enforcement in BATFE under Pres Clinton

“An Informed Public Is the Cornerstone of a Democratic Society.”
   –  Cecil Adams,  Chicago Reader

“Being stripped of your Constitutional Right to defend yourself
 makes you more  ‘safe,’   according to the government  —
 you live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.”
   –  Jeff Foxworthy 

“The fight for freedom and liberty never ends, those who are seeking power and authority over us are always working to gain more power and influence and to take away liberty and freedom.”
   –  Dana Criswell

“To equate defenselessness with safety is ludicrous.  The idea that no one is to be trusted
and that everyone is a suspect is a symptom of the worst of tyrannies.”
   –  Justin Skywatcher

“The second amendment is not a privilege.  It’s a freakin’ right.”
   –  Noel Flasterstein

“Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
“The downside is people with huge egos and the know-it-alls who clearly know nothing.”
   –  Thomas Sowell

“Retreat, retrenchment, and disarmament are historically a recipe for disaster.”
   –  Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn,   former head of Defense Intelligence Agency 

“We don’t need gun control, we need crime control.”
John Boch,  Director of  “Guns Save Life” 

“To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that
  you’re putting a money test on getting a gun. 
  It’s racism in its worst form.”
  –  Roy Innis,  National Chairman of Congress of Racial Equality

     Expansion of Federal Powers:
“We get constant exposure to the right wing socialist slimeballs that want the government to tax me, then spend *my money*  to take away more of  *my freedoms*  in the pursuit of some nebulous  ‘greater good’.
It is laughable to hope that people for whom murder is a standard business practice will go present themselves to the local police chief to get fingerprinted, and pay  $ 200 for the privilege.
It is ludicrous to think that putting legal restrictions on firearms will reduce their availability to those people whose entire livelihood involves finding,  buying,  transporting,  selling,   and delivering stolen illegal goods.”
    –  John Ross,        “Unintended Consequences”

“The Second Amendment was written by patriots who successfully rebelled against tyranny.”
   –  Lynn Thompson,   Cold Steel Knives

“If you want to know what’s going on,
  Follow the Money.”
   –  Gov  Jesse Ventura

 

                               

 

“Political Correctness is a doctrine,  recently fostered by a delusional,  illogical minority and promoted by a sick mainstream media,  which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end!

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      Elected  Politicians:

    Ban guns !!

   Because:
   Banning  Alcohol,  Meth,  Heroin,  Cocaine,  Crack &  Marijuana
     works so well.
 
   A ban on  “assault weapons”  is simply an ineffective band-aid
   to make it look like politicians give a shit!

Banning gun ownership by lawful people does nothing to discourage criminals or crazy people from committing heinous crimes.

“Because nothing - nothing -  is as important to an incumbent Member of the U.S. House or Senate
  (  who is not planning to retire  )
  as continuing to be an incumbent Member of the U.S. House or Senate”.
    –  Rich Galen,   Mullings

 

          Republicans are Red
          Democrats are Blue
          None of Them
          Give a Shit About YOU

 

          

 

“Outside of the killings in Washington, D.C., we have one of the lowest crime rates in the nation.”
   –  Marion Barry,   ( former crack smoking indicted mayor of Washington,  D.C. )

“I don’t care about crime,  I just want to get the guns. 
No,  we’re not looking at how to control criminals  . . . 
we’re talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns. 
Until we can ban all of the firearms,  then we might as well ban none.”
   –  Sen. Howard Metzenbaum  

“We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true!
  We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy.
  We’re going to beat guns into submission.”
   –  Sen. Charles Schumer  

“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn them all in, I would have done it.
  Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of Americans to feel safe.”
   –  Sen. Dianne Feinstein  

“If someone is so fearful that they’re going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, 
  it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!”
   –  Rep. Henry A. Waxman  

“With a 10,000% tax,  we could tax guns out of existence.”
   –  Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“I do not believe in people owning guns.  Guns should be owned only by police and military. 
  I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.”
   –  Michael Dukakis,  Gov of Massachusetts

“The banned Assault Weapons were never used in more that  0.01%  of all gun murders,
  but more than 30% of murders are committed without any kind of firearm whatsoever.”
   –  Congressional Study of 1994 Assault Weapons Ban

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                         

 

“When we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew … We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.”
   –  T. E. Lawrence,  of Arabia

 

“Meet the New Boss,  Same as the Old Boss.”
   –  The Who

 

“I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power.
   You cannot trust people in power.”
   –  James Comey,  FBI Director,  interview with “60 Minutes”

 “If you have ten thousand regulations,  you destroy all respect for the law.”
   –  Winston Churchill

 

“There is a Nazi potential in every country.”
   –  German Chancellor Willy Brandt

 

“That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, 
  and I’m just the one to do it.”
  –  Texas Congressional Candidate.

“What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?”
   –  The Shadow    ( knows )

“You can tell a lot about a National Government by its trust or distrust of Law-Abiding Armed Citizens.”
  –  Guns and Ammo

 

                             

“Off With Their Heads !!”
  –  Queen of Hearts,      Alice in WonderLand

“Elections are when people find out what politicians stand for
    and politicians find out what the people will fall for.”
  –  Alfred E. Neuman

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“If gun laws 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. 
They cannot do so,  even after a century and a half of trying.”
  –  Sen. Orrin Hatch

 

“The Political Left in our country seeks to reach down the hand of Government and move people up the economic ladder.  This attempt is almost always driven by Noble Intentions.  And yet it Never,  Ever Works. 
Conservatives,  in contrast,  understand from experience that the only way to help people climb the economic ladder is to provide them the Opportunity to pull themselves up,  one rung at a time.”
   –  Texas Sen.  Ted Cruz 

 

                  

 

“Politics has a lot to do with temptation,  because it has to do with power.
 People are attracted to the power.
 Ambition is like a loose cannon   —  it can be dangerous.”
  –  Stanley Renshon,  Psychoanalysis and Political Science Professor,  CUNY

“Of the over 100,000 wildfires that happen in the U.S. each year,
not a single one would get started without the fire triangle:
Oxygen,  heat and fuel.  Fire needs all three to exist.
It’s like the three branches of our government:
Legislative,  Judicial and Executive.
The fewer there are,  the safer we are.”
  –  Stephen Colbert 

“If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, 
  in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
  –  Milton Friedman

 

“Those who like sausages and respect the law would lose all appetite and respect for either if they saw how they were made.”
   –  Unknown

“Do we really think that a government-dominated education
  is going to produce  citizens capable of dominating their government,
  as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?”
  –  Alan Keyes

“I never let schooling interfere with my education.”
  –  Mark Twain

Things I never learned in high school:

• What taxes are.
  
• How to do taxes.
  
• How to vote.
  
• Anything to do with banking.
  
• How to buy a car or a house.
  
• But I’m so glad I know the Pythagorean Theorem!

“When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state  . . .
  this violates a fundamental rule of happy living:
  Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.”
   –  P. J. O’Rourke,  US humorist,  journalist,  & political commentator

“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election
 by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
   –  George Bernard Shaw 

 

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed  —
 and hence clamorous to be led to safety  —
 by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,  all of them imaginary.”
   –  H. L. Mencken 

“It is truly absurd that a person can get 50 to 100 high powered military arms,  grenade launchers,  fragmentation grenades,  and anti-tank rockets from a gun dealer in the U. S.  and transport this cargo to our country.”
   –  Eduardo Medina Moros,   Attorney General,   Mexico 

 

“Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.
The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country.   The second problem is to get handguns registered,  and the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns,  and all handgun ammunition totally illegal.”
   –  Nelson T Shields,    Founding Chair of HCI

 

“After a shooting tragedy,  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.”
  –  William S. Burroughs

“Political Language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
   and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
“If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.”
   –  George Orwell

“People never lie so much as after a hunt,  during a war or  before an election.”
  –  Otto von Bismarck

 

“The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
  The one that’s out always looks the best.
 “There is no credit to being a comedian,  when you have the whole Government working for you.
  All you have to do is report the facts.   I don’t even have to exaggerate.”
  –  Will Rogers

 

“There are three kinds of Lies:
  Lies,  Damned Lies,  and Statistics.”
  –  Mark Twain

 

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
  –  Hanlon’s razor

  

“I am very concerned about government spending and
 government intrusion in our personal and business lives.
 I love this country.
 It’s the government that scares the shit out of me!”

“We Have Met the Enemy,
     and He Is Us.”
   –  Pogo Possum

 

 "Your Hands Are Defiled with Blood,
  Your Fingers with Iniquity,
  Your Lips Have Spoken Falsehood,
  Your Tongue Mutters Wickedness.”
  –  Isaiah  59:3

 

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     Enemies:

“The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine.  Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.  The most brilliant   propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.  It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.”
   –  Joseph Goebbels,  Nazi Propaganda Minister 

“In the bureaucracy,  the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest  becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims. 
 The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state.
“The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape.  Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.  The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels,  whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general,  and so all are mutually deceived.
“For the bureaucrat,  the world is a mere object to be manipulated by  him.”
   –  Karl Marx

“It is true that liberty is precious –  so precious that it must be rationed.”
   –  Nikolai Lenin,  Premier of the Soviet Union

“How many divisions has the Pope?”
   –  Josef Stalin
Stalin's point was,  of course,  that the greatest moral authority in the world is still impotent in the face of the sort of power that comes from the barrel of a gun.

“This year 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 into the future!
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one.”
   –  Adolph Hitler,  Mein Kampf

“I will provide a propagandistic causus belli.  Its credibility doesn’t matter.
 The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth.
 In the last analysis, success is what matters.”
   –  Adolf Hitler to his generals,  prior to the start of World War II

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.
History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.”
   –  Adolf Hitler,     Edict,  March 18, 1938  

 “Ordinary citizens don’t need guns,  as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.”
   –  Heinrich Himmler,  Head of the Gestapo,  1935

 “As long as the police carry out the will of the leadership,  it is acting legally.”
   –  Werner Best,    Gestapo Schutz-Staffel

 “All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately . . .
The SS,  SA and  Stahlhelm give every responsible opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above-named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon . . .   must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.”
   –  SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz,   March, 1933

“The right of self-defense in international law is not directed toward the lives of individuals;
  it is concerned with the preservation of the State.”
  –  United Nations

“I would never invade the United States.  There would be a gun behind every blade of grass.”
  –  Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto,   Japanese Fleet

“We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization,
  the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.
 “We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.”
   –  Benito Mussolini,   Italian Dictator,  1934

“Comrades!  We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.”
   –  Nikita Khrushchev,   1956

“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.”
   –  Vladimir Putin

 

                                

“I don’t care if you think it’s your right.  I say: Sorry.  We have had enough as a nation.
You are not allowed to own a gun,  and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.”
   –  Rosie O’Donnell

“We humans can take almost any evidence and distort it in support of our point of view
   when we care more about that point of view than we care about the truth.”
   –  Valerie Tarico,   “Trusting Doubt”

 “Assault weapons -- just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms -- are a new topic.
  The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over
  fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons — 
  anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun — 
  can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.
  In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.”
   –  Josh Sugarman,   Violence Policy Institute,   “Assault Weapons & Accessories in America”

“Once again let us blame inanimate objects instead of the evil people who harm others.
  Take away a murderer’s firearm, and he will kill with a knife.
  Take away his knife, and he will kill with a rock.
  Take away his rock, and he will kill with his bare hands.
  A murderer is not a murderer because he kills.
  He kills because he is a murderer.”

One of the tricks of the  “anti-gun”  lobby is to include large city gang illegal gun shootings as something to support gun control.
 These kids & criminals will continue to get guns regardless of the laws.

“It’s  *Always*  the people who have armed guards themselves,                 
   who want to take  *Our*  guns away.”                        

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Gun  Control  History:

The Ancient Cart Haggians had consented to  “deliver up all their Arms to the Romans”
   and were slaughtered by the Romans soon after.

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 
   1.5 million Armenians,  unable to defend themselves,  were rounded up and exterminated.

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953,  about
   20 million dissidents,  unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 
   20 million political dissidents,  unable to defend themselves,  were rounded up and exterminated

Germany established gun control in 1938,  and from 1939 to 1945,  a total of
   13 million Jews and others,  unable to defend themselves,  were rounded up and exterminated.

Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, 
   one million educated people,  unable to defend themselves,  were rounded up and exterminated.

Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 
   100,000 Mayan Indians,  unable to defend themselves,  were rounded up and exterminated.

Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 
   300,000 Christians,  unable to defend themselves,  were rounded up and exterminated.

 Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the
   20th Century because of gun control:  56 million.

  Does anyone begin to see a pattern here ??

 Starting in on 21st Century:  
November  2015,    Burundi:    Civil Unrest.
President Pierre Nkurunziza gave a deadline of midnight on Saturday for Burundians to hand in illegal firearms or face being ‘dealt with as enemies of the nation.’

Defenseless people murdered.     To Be Determined.
   –  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34758791

“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to comprehend the notion that armed citizens
     are more able to resist state tyranny than are unarmed citizens.
     One might even call that one a  ‘no-brainer.’ 
“When you look at some of the worst examples of government-sponsored genocide in human history: 

• the Holocaust, 
• the mass murders in Cambodia under Pol Pot, 
• the mass murders in the Soviet Union under Stalin, 
• the mass murders in China under Mao, 
  they all have one thing in common: 
  their victims had been disarmed by law.” 
     –  Robert Glass
  

 

The United States ranks 3rd in murders throughout the world.
However, if you take out New York, Chicago, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and New Orleans,
the United States is 4th from the bottom for murders.
These 5 Cities have the toughest gun control laws in the United States!
All 5 have been controlled by Democrats for decades.

It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data  . . .   wouldn't it?

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Firearms Refresher Course:


• An armed man is a citizen.

• An unarmed man is a subject.

• Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

• Gun control is not about guns;  it’s about control.

• If you don’t know your rights,  you don’t have any.

• A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.

• You don’t shoot to kill;  you shoot to stay alive.

• Enforce the gun control laws we  *ALREADY*  have;  don’t make more.

• When you remove the people’s right to bear arms,  you create slaves.

• The Second Amendment is there in case the politicians ignore the other Amendments.

• Assault is a behavior,  not a device.

• Guns only have two enemies;

  1. rust

  2. politicians.

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“As our American Ancestors understood so well, the bedrock of a free society is private ownership of property.
 And there are fewer more important rights of private ownership than the unfettered right to own weapons.
“Why is ownership of weapons so vitally important?  Not for hunting.  And not even to resist aggression by domestic criminals or  foreign invaders.
No,  as history has repeatedly shown,
  the vital importance of the fundamental right to own arms is to resist tyranny by one’s own government,
  should such tyranny ever become unendurably evil and oppressive.

“The lesson which Americans of today have forgotten or have never learned
 –  the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach us  – 
is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security lies not with some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us;
instead,  the greatest threat to the well-being of all of us lies with our own government!
 “Of course,  there are those who suggest that democratically elected public officials would never do anything seriously harmful to the American people. 

“But let’s look at just a few twentieth-century examples:

• They confiscated people’s gold.
• They repudiated gold clauses in government debts.
• They provoked the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor,  then acted like they were surprised.
• They incarcerated Japanese-Americans for no crime at all.
• They injected dangerous, mind-altering drugs into American servicemen without their knowledge.
• They radiated the American people in the Northwest,  then deliberately hid it from them.
• They have surreptitiously confiscated and plundered people’s income and savings through the Federal Reserve System.
• They have terrorized the citizenry through the IRS.
• Most recently, they have sent our fellow citizens to their deaths
  thousands of miles away in the pursuit of a relatively insignificant cause.
  
“Those who believe that democratically elected rulers lack the potential and inclination
  for destructive conduct against their citizenry are living in la-la land.”
   –  Jacob G. Hornberger,   founder and president of  The Future of Freedom Foundation

What do totalitarian tyrants do when they achieve power?

• Kill the messenger.

• Seek out and silence critics by imprisoning them,  then killing them.

• Often times they skip the imprisoning part.

• Seek out and destroy any literature that doesn’t support them.

• Seek out and destroy religious symbols/statures/buildings that are not of their belief.

• Control the media and through it control information.

• Where schools are permitted,  dictate what can be taught.

The media loves whipping people up into a panic over nothing.

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