The Second Amendment
"Firearms stand next in importance to the
Constitution
itself. They are the people's liberty teeth keystone... the rifle and
the pistol are equally indispensable...
more than 99%
of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and
sane
hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere
restrains
evil interference. When firearms go, all goes, we need them
every
hour." – George Washington
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms” - Thomas
Jefferson
"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." - Cesare Beccaria, On
Crimes and Punishment
"Forty years ago, when the resolution of
enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament
was advised...to disarm the people; that it was the best and most
effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly,
but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and
neglecting the militia” – George Mason
"Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual
discretion...in private self-defense..." -John Adams
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American...(T)he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." – Tench Cox
“If
ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the
highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of
its experienced
patriots to prevent its
ruin.”– Samuel Adams
Jeff Kaplan
RKBA Personal Safety Training
PO Box 1094
Wrentham, MA 02093-1094
(508) 944-3797
rkba@earthlink.net
