"The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crimes routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late," Kozinski said in his fiery opinion. "The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed.... However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once,"
Judge Alex Kozinski
Where the Constitution establishes a right of the people, no organ of the government, including the courts, can legitimately take that right away from the people," Kleinfeld wrote. "All of our rights, every one of them, may become impediments to the efficient functioning of our government and our society from time to time, but fortunately they are locked in by the Constitution against permanent loss because of temporary impediments."
Judge Andrew Kleinfeld
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to bear arms"
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Know Your Lawmakers, Guns, Feb. 1960, at 4