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dksuddeth · 03-13-2006, 07:22 AM

It wouldn't surprise me if this actually passes in MA. I look at Chicago and Illinois and have to wonder how I made it growing up in that state. New Jersey is just as bad and california is rising up there. Will these states ever realize that gun control/gun bans does not stop criminals, it only disarms those law abiding citizens.

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington, speech of Jan. 7, 1790 in the Boston Independent Chronicle, Jan. 14, 1790.

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace." -- James Madison

"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." --- Thomas Jefferson in "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

"the people have a right to keep and bear arms." -- Patrick Henry and George Mason, Elliot, Debates at 185.

03-13-2006, 07:22 AM	#7 (permalink)
dksuddeth Junkie Location: bedford, tx	It wouldn't surprise me if this actually passes in MA. I look at Chicago and Illinois and have to wonder how I made it growing up in that state. New Jersey is just as bad and california is rising up there. Will these states ever realize that gun control/gun bans does not stop criminals, it only disarms those law abiding citizens. "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington, speech of Jan. 7, 1790 in the Boston Independent Chronicle, Jan. 14, 1790. "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -- Thomas Jefferson "Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace." -- James Madison "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." --- Thomas Jefferson in "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764 "the people have a right to keep and bear arms." -- Patrick Henry and George Mason, Elliot, Debates at 185. __________________ "no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."