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DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 266 Location: Houston,Texas

It was Captain Jack Sparrow! Very Happy

Kinda of corny I know but I just love to say it.People kind of look at you funny... Im not sure why? Anyway I need to find that monkey. Twisted Evil

yellowdog762 · Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 46

Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776:

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

yellowdog762 · Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 46

A man with a gun is a citizen, a man without a gun is a subject. Our forefathers knew this to be true..... Why do so many of us question their wisdom? -D. Michael Wiechman, May 14, 1996

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
-Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776, Jefferson Papers 344

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them." -- Walter Mondale, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 4/20/94

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -George Mason, during Virginia's ratification convention, 1788

"The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it." -- James A. Donald

"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?" -- Andrew Ford

"Liberalizing concealed carry laws won't lead to a return to the Wild West. ... in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capital robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City's. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown." David Kopel - quoted in the WSJ 28 Feb 1994

`Firearms have been around for over 400 years, yet it is only in the last 20 years that people have begun shouting "gun control". Why then, only recently, has this become such an issue? Moreover, why are there more mass-murderers than at any other time in our known history? It is not because weapons are more powerful -- 200-year-old muzzleloaders have a much greater force-per-round than today's "assault rifles". It is not because weapons are semi- or fully-automatic -- rapid-fire weapons have been available for most of the last century. It is not due to a lack of laws -- we have more "gun control" laws
than ever. It IS, however, because we have chosen to focus on "gun control" instead of crime control or "thug control." It IS because only recently has the public become complacent enough to accept, by inaction, the violence present in our society.' - Kevin Langston, Tuesday, 29 October, 1991

"A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia." --Charlie Reese, syndicated columnist

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. ... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be possible." - Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (1960)

"The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms..." Samuel Adams

Seen on a pickup in Arizona: China has gun control. Afghanistan doesn't.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as h*ll wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. -- William Burroughs

Prohibiting law-abiding people from owning guns because they might be stolen by criminals is like prohibiting women from going out at night because they might be raped. - Unknown

Lt. Lowell Duckett: "Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed." Special Assistant to DC Police Chief; President, Black Police Caucus, The Washington Post, March 22, 1996.

"I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them." -- Hugh Downs, veteran ABC newsman

If the Government doesn't trust us with our guns, why should we trust them with theirs? - Unknown

Hoff · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 769 Location: Warrior Nirvana

Good stuff Yellowdog. Now if we can just convince the ignorant that it is not the gun but the person behind it, much like this quote from Omar Bradley,
"Leadership is intangible, therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it"
It is the people that do good and the people that will do bad, not the instruments, we must have leaders that understand the difference and lead humanity in the right direction, and punish those who commit the crimes.
Hoff

wichaka · Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 111 Location: Washington State

Ignorance can be rectified, but stupidity is forever!

Hoff · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 769 Location: Warrior Nirvana

Fear is temporary,
Regret is forever.

Guardian · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 6

Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
Colin Powell

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 266 Location: Houston,Texas

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. Twisted Evil

- Dante Aligheri -

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 266 Location: Houston,Texas

" LETS ROLL!!! " Twisted Evil

- TODD M BEAMER -

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 266 Location: Houston,Texas

Every man is his own greatest enemy,and as it were his own executioner. Twisted Evil

- Sir Thomas Browne -

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 266 Location: Houston,Texas

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Twisted Evil

- Plato -

fm2 · Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 68

"ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
Charles Darwin (1871)

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 266 Location: Houston,Texas

Its better to be a Lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Australian Nurse

God bless you Sister. A true Warrior at Heart! Twisted Evil

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 266 Location: Houston,Texas

Its courage the world needs, not infallibility... courage is always the surest Wisdom. Twisted Evil

Wilfred T Grenfell
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DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 266 Location: Houston,Texas

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It is the Mastery of fear. It is about getting up one more time than we fall down. Twisted Evil

Arianna Huffington
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