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Freedom
- Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will
ever be involved in a violent crime.
Thus, the problem of criminal gun
violence is concentrated...
- When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".
Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The...
- Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -
unlike the citizens
of other countries whose governments...
- The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be
properly armed."
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Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184...
- Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look
upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
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Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography, pg...
- The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their
possession any swords,
short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types...
- One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes
without resistance,
is, by disarming the people, and making it an
offense...
- The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the
individual asserts both his social power and his participation in
politics as a responsible moral being.
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-- J.G.A. Pocock,...
- Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty,
will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest.
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- As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives [only]
moderate exercise to the body,
it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence
to...
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