Shameless self-plug: If you liked the quotes in this article, there's a 19 page document in PDF format of the best of the best right HERE.
Posted on 06/01/2002 6:34:06 AM PDT by George Frm Br00klyn Park
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."
Guys, Yep. That's it. Peace and love, George.
Shameless self-plug: If you liked the quotes in this article, there's a 19 page document in PDF format of the best of the best right HERE.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
Glad to see I'm not the only person who thinks this way.
I thought "molon labe" meant "kiss my @$$".....
"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them." - Walter Mondale
Ex-Presidential candidate Walter Mondale said that? He was (is?) pro-gun?!!!?
Having had pistolcraft instruction from Colonel Cooper, this quote rings very true. More new gunowners need to take this to heart. The presence of a gun may often prevent an attack from taking place, but the gun "user" better project some confidence or he/she could quickly become a victim anyway. Predators are good at reading fear and hesitation in the eyes of their intended victim.
Please do pass on the RKBA quotes doc, as well as anything else you find of use on my site, to anyone and everyone you know. That's what it's all there for.
2nd Amendement bump.
"A pistol is what you use to fight your way back to the rifle that you stupidly left behind."
You gotta love the guy! I'm currently reading his seminal work, "The Art of the Rifle". A very concise and brilliant work, wrought from the hand of experience.
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Dies Irae, Dies Illa
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There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
--Marcus Tulius Cicero, 106-53 BC
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Any government that would attempt to disarm its people is despotic; and any people that would submit to it deserve to be slaves!
--Stephen F. Austin, 1835
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A government that fears arms in the hands of its people should also fear the rope!
--General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA
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A society of sheep by nature, must beget a government of wolves.
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel, In Freedom
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All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.
Marbury vs. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)
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I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
What I can do, I should do.
And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.
-- Edward Everett Hale
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-Johann W. Von Goethe
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Governor, had I foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no, sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand.
-- General Robert E. Lee to Governor Stockdale of Texas, August 1870
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The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather to your bosom his wives and his daughters.
-- Genghis Khan, 1226
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My new signature file for e-mails bump.
"A pistol is what you use to fight your way back to the rifle that you stupidly left behind."
Actually, I think that one comes from Clint Smith at Thunder Ranch, but either sensei might well be quoting the other. My 1978 Orange Gunsight API 250 course served me well, and I felt much more comfortable going in harm's way with *only* a handgun than previously, and I certainly don't think of the Colonel, then or now, as at all undergunned with both a good handgun and the knowledge of how to use one effectively.
That said, there were generally some pretty serious longguns, or at least medium-longish ones around me in those days, particularly in the work vehicle I had then. And in these as well....
-archy-/-
Damn, I like this one, too for a sig file. Decisions.....decisions...
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