Quotes for All
Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major … Read more
Every single fact I state in ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ is the absolute and irrefutable truth…Do not let anyone say this or that isn’t true. If they say that, they are lying. Dave Kopel
Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a … Read more
Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows. Dave Kopel
They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every ‘reasonable’ control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible. Dave Kopel
Some people who don’t like guns can’t stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It’s how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange. Dave Kopel