The entire purpose of carrying a gun is because a cop is too heavy.
Category: Second Amendment
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Armed citizens prevent military tyranny
Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superior to any force that exists among the people, or which they can command; for otherwise this force would be annihilated, on the first exercise of acts of oppression.
Continue reading “Armed citizens prevent military tyranny”The ultimate authority lies in an armed populace
The ultimate authority … resides in the people alone … The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition.
Protection against monarchs, etc.
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince.
Swords and plowshares
Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.
Trustworthiness of government
A government that does not trust its law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust.
Government is a threat
A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Natural rights
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Arms are a protection against government tyranny
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.
Arms for free men
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.