DALAI LAMA:
"If someone has a gun
and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to
shoot back with your own
gun."
-Dalai Lama
JEFFERSON:
"Laws
that forbid carrying 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 crimes."
-Thomas Jefferson
JESUS:
"Let him who hath no sword, let him sell his tunic and buy one".
Jesus
Christ, Luke 22:36, the Holy Trinity Version, Catholic Bible (1951),
and the
King James Version. [rf].
JESUS:
"When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace."
Jesus
Christ, Luke 11:21 KJ
JOHN
ADAMS:
"The
Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the
people of
the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their
own arms."
-Samuel Adams
GHANDI:
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look
upon the Act, depriving a whole nation of arms, as the
blackest."
-Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, An Autobiography, M. K. Gandhi, p.
446
CONSCIENTIOUS
OBJECTORS
"We
in the U. S. have always made room for conscientious objectors - since the
earliest
days of the Republic - and most of us favor continuing this
tolerant policy.
We have always found non-combat service for them and
they have served unarmed. But
make no mistake, it was not the
conscientious objectors who got the job done. They were
not the ones
who threw the royals out of here in the early days. Nor were they the ones
who
prevented Hitler from taking over the world. The job got done by
armed women and men,
trained and competent with firearms. And the same
holds true for home and family defense.
Conscientious objectors refuse to
learn adequate defense and then assume a haughty, arrogant
"moral
superiority" for this stupid, irresponsible, wish-method reaction.
Then they and
their children are helpless, pathetic volunteer victims of
every opportunistic, wanton
rapist/strangler/murderer. Conscientious
objectors? Pathetic, childish, wish-method
self deluded deniers of
awful, brutal, cruel reality. They are entitled to their delusional
views, but it really is sad that their innocent, helpless children are
abandoned to the
criminal brutes. So sad for the little
ones." Anon.