“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, via David B. Kopel, Wall Street Journal
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Tags: BitsBlog, Second Amendment
April 19th, 2007 at 6:33
Given that the Democrats have become the party of the gun grabber, it amazes me that they still have the audacity to hold the image of Thomas Jefferson as iconic.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:19
Further irony, Thomas Jefferson both believed in the inherent human right of self-defense and founded the University of Virginia. The government of Jefferson’s state then proceded to allow her citizens in her universities to be denied the same rights that Jefferson held so dear. The liberals are anything but liberal. They loath freedom.