08-04-2009, 11:43 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Indian Territory
Posts: 4,240
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of 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 homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." ~ Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and Punishment (1764). ~
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html#articlev
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Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions of 1798: "In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
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