**Favorite Firearms Quote?**

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How about...

the full quote from Cesare Beccaria from On Crimes and Punishments...

"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 crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty — so dear to men, so dear to the enlightened legislator — and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
 
Murphy lives!

The easy way is always mined.

If your attack is going too well, it's an ambush.

The diversion you ignored is the main assault force.

If you are low on everything but the enemy, you're engaged.

If you are foreward of your position, artillery will fall short.

I adhere to O'Shea's Law: Murphy was an optimist.
 
Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia:
"A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves . . . and include all men capable of bearing arms. . . To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... The mind that aims at a select militia must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle."
-- Additional Letters From The Federal Farmer, 1788

"The role of government is to protect citizens from each other. When it starts to protect citizens from themselves, it has overstepped it's bounds."
- Ronald Reagan
 
Um how bout' this one?

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Blast, now I've gotta change my sig line. Can we get an extension of the character limit?:)

"First come smiles. Then lies. Last is gunfire." -Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
 
From Firefly: Our Mrs Reynolds

Jayne: Six men came to kill me one time. The best of 'em carried this. It's a Callahan full-bore autolock. Customized trigger, double-cartridge thorough gauge.It is my very favorite gun.
Mal: You offering me a trade?!
Jayne: A trade?! Hell, it's theft. It's the best damn gun made by man. It has extreme sentimental value. It's miles more worthy than what you got.
Mal: What I got? She has a name.
Jayne: So does this. I call it Vera.
Mal: Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
 
"Be not afraid of any man, no matter what his size; when danger threatens, call on me and I will equalize." - Colt
 
time for some Deep Thoughts from jack handy.

i think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.
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A collection from various web sources:

If guns kill people then I can blame misspelled words on my pencil.

"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power." - Yoshimi Ishikawa

"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose." - James Earl Jones

"Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving." - Bill McIntire

VEGETARIAN - Ancient Indian word meaning "poor hunter".

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. ~ George Washington

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles. —Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

"Come to the dark side, we have cookies!"

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." Mahatma Gandhi, from his autobiography

Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

"Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee".

The word “martyr” is just a fancy word for “crappy fighter.”

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, 6/28/04

Personally, I’m against the death penalty but we have to keep it legal. Otherwise, we’d be trying to carry out executions in an alley with a coat hanger. Keep the death penalty safe, legal, and rare.

The most dangerous predator on the battlefield is a county-boy with a rifle.

If total government control equals safety, why are prisons so dangerous?

Truth is the first casualty of war.

Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.

"Aim small, miss small." - From the movie The Patriot
 
This little piece of plastic with my face thereon, is my license to kill if someone is trying, at the worst, to kill me.
That reasoning puts the real fear in me, that I could be responsible for the death of someone else. Quite sobering if you think about it and if not, you should maybe carry a rock instead!
 
All political power flows from the barrel of a gun, and that gun must remain firmly in the hand of the state.
Mao Tse-Dung

Avoid strong drink. It makes you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.
REH

Seeing Goddam's undignified retreat, ***** was moved to pity. "Pity", he thought "I've run out of ammo."
Bored of the Rings
 
From Larry the Cable Guy - Guns dont kill people , husbands that come home early do.
 
Pulp Fiction

Jules: "Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous a#@ in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish"....
 
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