Omega Dragon
Active Member
It's true, and as such I will be direct. Gun control is by far, itself, the very method by which the chef is cooking up frog soup. As we all know, unless you slowly turn up the heat, cold-blooded animals like frogs will remain in the pot until it's too late. It happened in Austria, as I described earlier. Truth is, it did happen in Germany as well. Not that it necessarily started around guns, either.
"Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for the crooks and gangster. I want you to have nothing. If I'm the bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins." - Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Mafia Hitman & Informant
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of its arms as the blackest." - Mahatma Gandhi
"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
"Every good Communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, and that gun must remain firmly in the hands of the state." - Mao Tse Tung
"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
"Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and opposed subjects." - Leo Tolstoy
"Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We wouldn't let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" - Josef Stalin
"I cannot go to work. But I have a film to finish. Our editor has been unable to make it in from New Jersey, but he is there now waiting for some word on what to do. I can't even think about this movie. I don't WANT to think about it because if I think about it I will have to face an ugly truth that has been gnawing through my head....This started out as a documentary on gun violence in America, but the largest mass murder in our history was just committed -- without the use of a single gun! Not a single bullet fired! No bomb was set off, no missile was fired, no weapon (i.e., a device that was solely and specifically manufactured to kill humans) was used. A boxcutter! — I can't stop thinking about this. A thousand gun control laws would not have prevented this massacre. What am I doing?" - Michael Moore, Gun Control Advocate
"Because less than twenty years ago I was the target of a terrorist group. It was the New World Liberation Front. They blew up power stations and put a bomb at my home when my husband was dying of cancer. And the bomb didn't detonate....I was very lucky. But, I thought of what might have happened. Later the same group shot out all the windows of my home....And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me." - Diane Feinstein
"Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power." - Cicero
"A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of carrying arms....To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms." - Richard Henry Lee
"Gun control, the theory that 110-pound women should have to fistfight with 210-pound rapists." - Chris Morton
"I ask, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officials." - George Mason
As I will continue to put forward though, there is no reason why any group of humans (but especially the "law-abiding" kind) should legally have less access to their own defense than any other group of humans, even more so when the latter includes a force capable of destroying the world. I'm trained to kill. I'm trained to shoot. I'm trained to wound. I'm even trained to survive. Yet someone finds that I somehow shouldn't be able to use something just because I don't have a non-civilian job. Yeah... I don't think so, especially when this other group is significantly more dangerous than any armed civilian ever could possibly be.