Pro gun rights quotes needed, please share your knowledge...

[reconman]

In short, I am doing a speech on gun rights and the 2nd Amendment. The speech is persuasive, and I'm looking for any famous quotes that could apply. I already have a couple that I am using in the speech, just wanted to see if there were any I hadn't heard or thought of. Let me know what ya got! Just give the quote and the author please... and no, famous TBHers don't count. Mine are below...

" All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men to do nothing". - Edmund Burke

" An armed society is a polite society". - Robert Heinlein

" This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration!". - Adolf Hitler

[Shane]

"Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy." - Josey Wales

[Shinesintx]

Law of the Land...




I hear this garbage talking point from the left concerning Obamacare...throw it back at them.

[47]

" the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." --US Constitution

[47]

I carry a gun, because a cop is too heavy.

[tallnhairy]

This is one of my favorites, complete with history: http://www.monticello.org/site/jeffe...arms-quotation

[reconman]

" the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." --US Constitution

Thank you for reminding me! I forgot to mention that I will also be reading the actual 2nd Amendment....

[47]

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. --Rush Limbaugh

[47]

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/famous-gun-quotes

[reconman]

I'm thinking there was one, specifically dealing with defending one's self against a tyrannical government. It wasn't the one from Thomas Jefferson in the link from above though... maybe one of you guys/gals know it...... thanks for the ones so far, keep em coming!

[Geezy Rider]

WHY I CARRY A GUN...

My old grandpa said to me son, there comes a time in every mans life when he stops bustin knuckles and starts bustin caps and usually it's When he becomes too old to take an *** whoopin!

I don't carry a gun to kill people, I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don't carry a gun to scare people, I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid, I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I'm evil, I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I hate the government, I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don't carry a gun because I'm angry, I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone, I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy, I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man, I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate, I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don't carry a gun because I love it, I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves. Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an *** whoopin



"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
--Thomas Jefferson

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
- Thomas Jeffersonj

[Geezy Rider]

Doctors vs. Gun Owners

Doctors

(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.

© Accidental deaths per physician are 0.171.

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.

Now think about this:

Guns

(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.

(Yes, that's 80 million)

The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

© The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.

Statistics courtesy of FBI

So, statistically, doctors are approximately 900 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,

BUT
Almost everyone has at least one doctor.

This means you are over 900 times more likely to be killed by a doctor than a gun owner!!!

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.

We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!

Out of concern for the public at large, I withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause
people to panic and seek medical attention!

[Geezy Rider]

"The Gun Is Civilization"

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.


In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.


When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.


The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.


There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society. But, a firearm makes it easier for an armed mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat - it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.


People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly .


Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.


People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier, works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.


The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply would not work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.


When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...And that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act !!



By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)

[Jerry H]

I know you will not be able to use this, but I like it because that heifer is so anti-gun

If guns cause crime then a spoon made Rosie O’Donnell fat.

[tallnhairy]

http://www.catb.org/~esr/guns/quotes.html