[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

A politician who wants to take your guns is figuring on taking everything you've got.

Gun control laws increase the power of government and the criminal element over the average citizen and serve no other purpose.
- Robert E. Lee

A goverment that fears arms in the hands of it people should also fear ROPE!
- Nathan Bedford Forrest about 1845

I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals.
..I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.
- Robert Heinlein, in a 1949 letter concerning "Red Planet"

I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you will know that Williams is dead. - Walter Williams, syndicated columnist

Ain't much can't be cured with a lot of lead flyin' through the air.
- SEAL Team Six saying

It is hard to oppress a population equipped to hunt animals the size of a man.
-- L. Neil Smith, Pallas (New York: Tor, 1993), p. 380

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, Japanese author commenting on the lack of protest with which Japanese tolerated governmental corruption, Los Angeles Times, 10/15/92

The most important freedom of all is the freedom to defend freedom.
- Kevin McGehee

Gun control, the opiate of the intellectuals:
covert elitism laced with self-righteousness.

[Dead Corpse]

Here's another favorite El Neil quote:

"Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians." — Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith, Hope (2001)

[Brad from Tennessee]

Great quotes. I'm saving them. Thanks.

[flashbunny]

I say we draft Walter E. Williams for president.

That would drive the liberal republicans here nuts.

[P8riot]

One of my favorites:

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
-- Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis