imate aim, to reduce death and violence in our society, is one that every civilized person must share. I have, however, come to be convinced that they are barking up the wrong tree." -- James Wright (scholarly research in collaboration with Peter Rossi) "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." -- Justice Robert H. Jackson "The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." -- U.S. vs Cruikshan The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." "The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves." -- John Locke "No slave shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another. Arms in possession of a slave contrary to this prohibition shall be forfeited to him who will seize them." -- A Bill Concerning Slaves, Virginia Assembly, 1779 "Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out just because I might yell, "Fire!" in a crowded theater." -- Peter Venetoklis "This country was founded by religious nuts with guns." -- P.J. O’Rourke "When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril." -- Harry Truman "Life, libe...
