I only get one?
An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.
The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
Assault is a behavior, not a device.
Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.
If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson, and pencils cause misspelled words.
64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.
911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
"Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." Frederick the Great
“… As though peace were something you could place in a metal box and guard. In reality it was the other way ‘round, War was the Animal you kept in a cage and then released when the time was suited.” Tom Clancy The Bear & the Dragon
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." George Washington
A fight itself is the antithesis of civilization, and should remain so. A fight is savage, brutal and barbaric. It should tweak the reptilian hindbrain and draw out your inner Viking. Lawdog
"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." Ted Nugent
"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes, and the other is the Bill of Rights."
Major General Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps 1930
"I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence I would advise violence." Mohandas Gandhi
"It is better to live one day as a lion, then one hundred years as a sheep"
Old Roman Proverb.
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Dante
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
"Thou shalt not stand idly by the blood of thy neighbor." Leviticus 19:16
"When the World is at Peace, a gentleman keeps his Sword by his side." Wu Tsu
"As with sharks, humans usually bump before they bite." John Farnam
"There is an old saying. There are only 2 times when you have too much ammo.
1. When you are drowning
2. When you are on fire"
"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 (CORE)
"Free men have arms; slaves do not." William Blackstone (1723-1780), English jurist and professor of common law at Oxford
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
George Washington
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper
"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." John F. Kennedy
"The Second Amendment does not exist to protect the guns you like. It exists to protect the guns you hate."
"Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law."
Henry David Thoreau
"Gun control, the theory that 110lb. women should have to fistfight with 210lb. rapists." Chris Morton
"We all know that at the end of the day, Blue Helmets on American Soil are fair game." Geekwitha45
"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." Suzanna Gratia Hupp, Texas State Rep.
"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children." Confucius
"A gun, is one of the few things in the world, that if you NEED one, nothing else will do. If you need one and dont have one you will probably never need one again."
"To prohibit a citizen from wearing or carry a war arm... is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." Arkansas Supreme Court-1878
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
J.R.R.Tolkien, The Two Towers
"Cogito, ergo armatum sum." = "I think, therefore I am armed."
"A government that outlaws guns is an outlaw government."
"A Golf Course is the willful and deliberate misuse of a Perfectly good Rifle Range!"
"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." Jeff Cooper