TomsTXCHL wrote:VMI77 wrote:It didn't really work in Canada, Europe, or Australia either, as from what I've read there are large numbers of prohibited weapons in all those places.
Yeah let's see. All the criminals would keep their guns of course, and the rest of law-abiding citizens who didn't turn theirs in are now criminals.
Proves the old mantra I suppose: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
"Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." — Frederic Bastiat, The Law
"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
"The laws of this nature are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator? And does it not subject the innocent to all the disagreeable circumstances that should only fall on the guilty? It certainly makes the situation of the assaulted worse, and of the assailants better, and rather encourages than prevents murder, as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons." — Cesare Beccaria, Of Crimes and Punishments
"We can never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”" — Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (16 April, 1963)
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t is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do." — Edmund Burke
"The authority of government … can have no pure right over my person and my property but what I concede to it." — Henry David Thoreau
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." — Henry David Thoreau
Just sayin'
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