“The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.” PeopleMaySeemsGovernmentTodayLostMistakeSilenceRightsArmsCircumstancesWeaponsGunCourtRefuseLawyerProtestAmendmentsGun ControlLaw EnforcementProvisionOpposingSecond AmendmentImprobableDecreeRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsUnpreparedPro GunContingencyDoomsdayAnti GunReelection Author:Alex Kozinski
“Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered - one does not usually lead to the other - but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the 20th century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.” LittlesLongDoeHas BeensStillsRealityGovernmentMightStepsCenturyPolicyWeaponsGunPopulationExtremesContemporaryVarietyGenocideDozenScholarPrincipalNeverthelessArrangementsProbabilityEngagingTwentieth CenturyOutrageArresting Author:Daniel D. Polsby
“This government does not believe that public safety is enhanced by carrying weapons. In fact, it has been a long-standing Canadian government practice to discourage the use of personal defence weapons. Once public possession of one type of weapon is condoned for personal defence, the situation of weapon possession for protection starts to spiral upwards towards more powerful and dangerous weapons.” BelieveLongDoeHas BeensFactsUseGovernmentPowerfulSituationPracticeDangerousTypeWeaponsStandingSafetyPossessionProtectionDefenceDiscouragingFirearmsSpiralsPublic SafetyCanadian Government Author:Anne McLellan
“To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.” IfsMeanLongWarStatesUseGovernmentNationsResponsibilityPowerSecurityPromiseWeaponsBombsSpiteAbolishAtomic BombVery MeanBiological Weapons Author:Albert Einstein