Posted: 5/24/2003 10:05:35 PM EDT
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.----Unknown "They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every ‘reasonable’ control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible."-----DAVID KOPEL (Civil Rights Attorney) "The philosophy of gun control: Teenagers are roaring through town at 90 MPH, where the speed limit is 25. Your solution is to lower the speed limit to 20. ---Sam Cohen Author William S. Burroughs contributed this gem: After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. A popular quote from Thomas Jefferson is actually his quotation of brilliant criminologist Cesare Beccaria: Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. |
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