Posted on 06/01/2002 6:34:06 AM PDT by George Frm Br00klyn Park
"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe." ~~Senator Diane Feinstein, 1993 (She holds one of the rare California concealed pistol permits.)
"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate ofthe United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them....'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in', I would have done it." ~~Senator Feinstein, 1995
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA: ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state." ~~Heinrich Himmler
"If someone is so fearful that they are going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have weapons at all." ~~Henry Waxman
"One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers [read communist party] and the disarming of the bourgeoisie." ~~V.I. Lenin, Collected Works
"I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States." ~~Henry Waxman
"Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms." ~~V.I. Lenin
"We are going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We are going to beat guns into submission!" ~~Senator Chuck Schumer
"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves." ~~Stalin, 1927
"I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun. I also believe that every new handgun sale or or transfer should be listed in a national registry, such as Chuck [Senator Schumer] is proposing." ~~Hillary Clinton, 2000
Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen - In Quotes
Here's the one that isn't a FR thread...
The Writer's Rights (pdf)
1068 quotations on freedom of expression,
censorship, civil liberties, and individual rights
"When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. " Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince"
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." ~~Thomas Jefferson
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." ~~Thomas Jefferson
"Americans have the right and the advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~~James Madison
"I ask you sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." ~~George Mason
"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." ~~George Mason
The constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." ~~Samuel Adams
They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~~Ben Branklin
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the arguement of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves." ~~William Pitt
Look at the differences in the quotes themselves. The Pro's talk of Freedom, Liberty, Polite Society, Self-Defense, Philosophy, Theory, "won't have to", "morally superior", etc...
The quotes from the anti's use: Ban, "citizens don't need", Disarming, Searches, Hammer, Submission, Listed, "kill innocent", Fearful, "serve the state", Sweeps...
I hate the way that the Left always boils everything down to Good vs. Evil (actually, more like Bambi vs. Hitler), but these citations sure are revealing about the intentions of both sides, don't they?
Now get that book done! $;-)
"Have gun, will vote."
"This car only carries $20 worth of ammo..."
BATTLE OF GONZALES
When Domingo de Ugartechea,qv military commander in Texas, received word that the American colonists of Gonzales refused to surrender a small cannon that had been given that settlement in 1831 as a defense against the Indians, he dispatched Francisco de Castañedaqv and 100 dragoons to retrieve it.
Texas Militiamen, fought off the Mexican Dragoons under a flag showing a cannon and the words "Come and Take It".
It was the first flag of Texas and the flag Robert A. Heinlein used for his rebels in the novel "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
Burroughs is an odd choice to quote on guns. In a drunken stupor he shot his wife in the head, killing her, while playing 'william tell.'
Heinlein has so many brilliant quotes that I simply don't know where to begin :)
TANSTAAFL!
GUN CONTROL...it's not about guns...it's about CONTROL.
Safety is nice, but it's not FIRST. LIFE is FIRST...and...LIFE IS NOT SAFE!
"Blessed are they, who in the face of death, think only of the front sight.
The person you see in the mirror is the one responsible for your safety.
Among God's greatest gifts to humanity are fine weapons, beautiful women, great books, fast cars and good music. In return for these wonders we owe to HIM clear thought, good humor, courage and kindness.
Out of sight, out of range
Thomas Jefferson "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God"
Theodore Roosevelt "There is but one correct answer to a dynamite bomb and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle."
Another from Teddy: "Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin."
The difference between a pickpocket and a Democrat is that when you ask for your money back, a pickpocket will not question your motives.
"In World War II, the Swiss had defenses no other country had. Let's begin with the rifle in every home combined with the Alpine terrain. When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: shoot twice and go home."
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)
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