Morality is society’s first line of defense against uncivilized behavior
by Walter E. Williams
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Category: guns
Weapon of choice
Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel-plated sissy pistol.
Arms and the man
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry.
Remaining free
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.
Pacifism
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accept the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay — and claims a halo for his dishonesty.
Minute Men needed
In my own native state of Massachusetts, the battle for American freedom was begun by the thousands of farmers and tradesmen who made up the Minute Men — citizens who were ready to defend their liberty at a moment’s notice. Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of America, cannot succeed with any lesser effort.
Individual self defense
Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual discretion … in private self defense.
Gun control
Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty.
Choosing serfdom
People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
The profound tradition of firearm possession
We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities … have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights — the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.