[elbucko]

A quote: "If a man is willing to use a gun in the commition of a crime it stands to reason that he would be willing to commit a crime to obtain a gun."--Benjamin Franklin

Good one! Worth repeating, often.

Furthermore, the quote begs the question whether or not the Founding Fathers pondered citizens and guns. It seems that they did, and did approve of "the people" being armed.

[RKV]

Do you have a source for that quote from Franklin?

[cripplecreek]

If it weren't for "the people" with weapons there would have been no revolutionary war. The farmers and laborers who made of the militia brought their own guns to the fight. Our new military didn't have large numbers of weapons to issue to soldiers either so many of those were personal weapons.

[Travis McGee]

Do you have an attribution for that quote? The internet is full of bogus gun quotes that were never said by our founding fathers, and it gets to be a problem, weeding them out after they are repeated and take on a life of their own.

I've never seen that quote by Franklin on any list of quotes, and believe me, I've seen a lot of lists. I've also been burned by using some quotes (one supposedly by Jefferson comes to mind) which was absolutely proven to be bogus. A famous bogus quote (not) by Hitler also springs to mind.

[RKV]

I searched Yahoo for that quote and found NOTHING like it. Unless you can provide a reference please quit using false apocryphal quotes from the founders. I agree with the sentiment, but it makes 2nd Amendment supporters look stupid to have to lie to support our position. The gun grabbers are lying enough already, we don't need to.