“The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.” MeanStatesFightingUnitedUnited StatesCrimeTypeGunPossessionGun ControlCiviliansFirearmsOutlawFighting Crime Author:Janet Reno
“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 is 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.” PeopleEndsCountryStatesDifferencesMastersRevolutionArmsPleaseGunStandingArmyCourtCommandObservationMinistersGun ControlPursuedSecond Amendment Author:Aristotle
“The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” GivingStatesHomeJobsCan DoClassDemocracyOne ThingWallGunWorkersGreat ThingsSymbolsFlatsFactoriesBedroomWorking ClassGun ControlRiflesCottagesLaborersHanging OnTotalitarian StateFactory Workers Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941 Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941
“I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.” ShouldFirstsImportantStatesHouseInterestingUnitedCommonUnited StatesFireArmsGunConcernFarmsExposedPortionsGun ControlFrontiersDestitute Author:Thomas Jefferson
“We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.” HumansStatesFunnyAmericaLawThreeViolenceSocietyPoliticianHumorousGunKillingRoundsAbsurdMagazinesUsaHuntingDucksRegulationSenatorsGun ControlHuntsDuck Hunting Author:Dianne Feinstein
“Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason,then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidStatesProcessSecurityArmsBearsGunDuesTrialsAmendmentsGun ControlSecond AmendmentTreasonClausesDue ProcessFree State Author:L. Neil Smith
“I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.” FirstsStatesAmericaTurnsSoundUnitedWatchesUnited StatesFailingGunConstitutionRemainsAmendmentsGun ControlSecond AmendmentConstitution Of The United StatesWhen All Else Fails Author:Charlton Heston
“...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system;... to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics-that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.” PeopleWellsStatesRememberForceLibertySupportRightsMilitaryDangerSafeLimitsEssentialsAuthorityGunStandingConstitutionArmyUnionsLimitationRepublicGun ControlReservedCementMilitiaMilitary ForceAlways Remembering Author:James Madison