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.