"Assault rifles" are defined by widely accepted criteria. "Assault rifles" are capable of machine-gun-like "automatic" fire. They are designed to wound rather than kill. They fire intermediate power cartridges, more powerful than most pistols, but considerably less deadly than hunting rifles which, by definition, are designed to kill. In any other context, "assault rifle" is a misnomer. --Edgar A. Suter, MD, "Assault Weapons" in the Medical Literature: The Missing Pieces,1992

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. --Henry David Thoreau

Chantry considers the dangers of the unexplored West and potential conflict with warlike Indians: "Being a civilized, cultured human being was all very well, but I must hedge my bets a little or I would be a dead civilized, cultured human being. It needs two to make peace, but only one to make an attack. Humanity, I decided, must be tempered with reason, and reason with reality." --Louis L'Amour, In the novel, The Ferguson Rifle p.40

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. --Machiavelli, The Prince1513

I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. --Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush1800

It is legal because I wish it. --Louis XIV

Just because something is a law doesn't make it right. -- Anonymous letter in American Survival Guide1992

The chief foundations of all states...are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms...where there are good arms there must be good laws... --Machiavelli, The Prince1513

The chief foundations of all states...are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms...where there are good arms there must be good laws... --Machiavelli, The Prince1513

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. --Henry Kissinger

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