Guns

Guns are chlorine for the gene pool: the only question is whether you want to be the antiseptic or the germ. Guns are chlorine for the gene pool: the only question is whether you want to be the antiseptic or the germ.   Founding Fathers, Gun Control ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni

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❝ The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good". ❞ ~ George Washington (Paraphrased) ℹ️ C.S. Wheatley (1926)

❝ A free people ought to be armed. ❞ ~ George Washington ℹ️ First Annual Message given to Congress on January 8, 1790

❝ Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. ❞ ~ Patrick Henry ℹ️ Speech - 05.06.1788

❝ 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 the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion to your walks. ❞ ~ Thomas Jefferson ℹ️ writing to his teenaged nephew (Peter Carr)

❝ Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self-defense. ❞ ~ John Adams ℹ️ Defense of Constitutions of USA p. 471 (1788)

❝ Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. ❞ ~ Benjamin Franklin (Paraphrased) ℹ️ Letter to to Jane Mecom, 01.11.1773

❝ Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ❞ ~ Benjamin Franklin ℹ️ Multiple citations

❝ Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are liberty’s teeth. ❞ ~ George Washington (Paraphrased) ℹ️ C.S. Wheatley (1926)

❝ I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials. ❞ ~ George Mason ℹ️ 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426

❝ Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ❞ ~ William Pitt ℹ️ House of Commons, 18.11.1783

❝ No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 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 ℹ️ Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

❝ The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. ❞ ~ Alexander Hamilton ℹ️ The Federalist Papers at 184-188

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❝ A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. ❞ ~ Bertrand de Jouvenel ℹ️ The Reader’s Digest v. 54 - 1949 Pg. 7

❝ If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because you'll need the police's guns to take away other people's guns. You just believe that only the Government should be allowed to have guns. ❞ ~ Stefan Molyneux ℹ️

❝ The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. ❞ ~ Tacitus ℹ️ Second half of 11th century

❝ A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own. ❞ ~ Frank Dane ℹ️

❝ Gun control defined: The theory that people who are willing to ignore laws against rape, torture, kidnapping, theft, and murder will obey a law which prohibits them from owning a firearm. ❞ ~ Unkown ℹ️

❝ The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ❞ ~ James Madison ℹ️ Federalist No. 46 (Paraphrased)

❝ I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials. ❞ ~ George Mason ℹ️ 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426

❝ ...to disarm the people ― that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. ❞ ~ George Mason ℹ️ 3 Elliot, Debates at 380

❝ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under 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 ℹ️ The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" (1949), p. 292

❝ When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state". ❞ ~ Unknown ℹ️

❝ If the Government doesn't trust us with our guns, why should we trust them with theirs? ❞ ~ Unknown ℹ️

❝ Don't think of it as 'gun control', think of it as 'victim disarmament'. If we make enough laws, we can all be criminals. ❞ ~ Unkown ℹ️

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