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2008 July 25
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“[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain,
the British Parliament was advised by an artful man,
who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people;
that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them;
but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and
let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.” |
"We're bending the law as far as we can
to ban an entirely new class of guns." |
"[President Clinton] ... ordered the Justice Department to begin studying gun licensing, registration, and collection proposals." |
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2008 July 24
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"What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?" |
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"They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?" |
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2008 July 23
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2008 July 22
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"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion." |
"A people armed and free forms a barrier against
the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for
the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression." |
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States." |
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2008 July 21
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"There is no reason for anyone in this country --
anyone except a police officer or military person --
to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun.
The only way to control handgun use in
this country is to prohibit the guns." |
"The thought that average citizens will somehow be better able to
successfully defend themselves more effectively than our nation's
trained professionals is absurd." |
"There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation." |
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