No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to shoot the bastards, but it is not yet practical to do so.

Nut cases only succeed in multiple killings when they can be confident their prospective victims are disarmed.

Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says 'Yes' he's a conservative. If he says, 'Public schools? The Constitution grants the government no power to run any mandatory tax-funded youth propaganda camps,' you have your hands on the wily libertarian.

A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers.