Quotes: Guns and Gun Control

1935 will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future! 

- Adolph Hitler, 1935.

If the government does not trust me to own firearms, why or how can the people be expected to trust the government? There is no doubt in my mind that millions of lives could have been saved if the people were not "brainwashed" about gun ownership and had been well armed.

- Theodore Haas, former prisoner of Dachau concentration camp

I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun.

This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun. 

- Patrick Henry

The strongest reason for people to retain their rights to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government. 

- Thomas Jefferson

No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 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

Teddy Kennedy has killed more people with his car than I have with my gun.
- Bumper sticker from Ogelesby & Ogelsby Gunmakers

"Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control.

If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?

- Mike Gunn, Mississippi state senator

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

- Phil Gramm, Senator from Texas

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.

The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms'. If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'
-Ken Konecki on Usenet, on 27 Jul 1992

Do you believe that restricting people to one book purchase per month would prevent libel and slander?

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon
the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. 
- Mahatma Ghandi "Gandhi, An Autobiography", M. K. Gandhi, page 446

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 Papers, 334 (C. J. Boyd, Ed., 1950).

We have four boxes used to guarantee our liberty: The soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box.

Blaming crime on guns is like blaming obesity on forks and spoons. We could reduce the number and lengths of tines of forks, limit the capacity of teaspoons, ban tablespoons completely, increase the licensing fees for silverware dealers, and invoke a five day waiting period for the purchase of any new utensils, but I don't think it would help any of us lose weight!

- Dan Carducci, TheChampion.org

Ban Guns! Make our streets safe for government takeover.

If guns kill people, then I can blame misspelled words on my pencil.