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Argument: Gun bans only disarm citizens that are not inclined to commit crimes

Supporting Evidence

  • Second Amendment Quotes “Try to halt violence by restricting gun ownership and you won’t halt violence. But you will create entire classes of new criminals – people who make paperwork errors, violate technical specification of the law, or rebel against the new restrictions. And you’ll create new bureaus, new enforcement arms, new prisons to punish them. You’ll make hordes of lawyers and bureaucrats very happy. Organized criminals will be grateful to the naive moral crusaders (“useful idiots”) as they profit by selling an illegal product. And ordinary street criminals will bless fools, legislators, and “leaders” for making their job so much safer. – JPFO’s “Bill of Rights Sentinel”, Fall 2001.
  • Second Amendment Quotes ” …arms…discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. …Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived the use of them.” — Thomas Paine
  • Second Amendment Quotes “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
  • Second Amendment Quotes “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
  • β€œTo disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” – George Mason
  • Patrick Henry concurred, imploring future generations: “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”