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Fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity .

- Sigmund Freud

Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.
(A sword is never a killer, it’s a tool in the killer’s hands.)

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca “the Younger” (ca. 4 BC-65 AD)

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those
who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better
for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than
prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked
with greater confidence than an armed one.
- Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.

A strong body makes the mind strong.
As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun.
While this gives moderate exercise to the body,
it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to
the mind.
Games played with the ball and others of that nature,
are too violent for the body and stamp no character
on the mind.
Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of
your walks.
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to his nephew

The constitutions of most of our States assert, that
all power is inherent in the people;that they may
exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which
they think themselves competent, ... or they may act
by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that
it is their right and duty to be at all times armed;
that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom
of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the
press.
- The Living Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, pp.46 - 47,
Presented by John Dewey

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

- Robert E. Lee