Quotes can be tedious, so I don't want to overdo it here, but, just for reference, here are some "fer" and "agin" regarding private ownership of guns:
"The rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference, they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."--George Washington
"The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, they people would surely shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did."--James Madison
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."--Thomas Jefferson (emphasis added. Were these guys brilliant, or what?)
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."--George Washington (Do you think liberals don't know this?)
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."--Thomas Jefferson
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed...if the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government"--Alexander Hamilton. (Who do you reckon he meant by "the representatives of the people"?)
Of course, there are people who don't agree with the above sentiments....
"Guns, for what?"--Fidel Castro
"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"--Joseph Stalin
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing."--Adolf Hitler
"Control of guns was watertight." (This is speaking of Mao Zedong's China in the early 1940s, Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, p. 272. Especially in the countryside, because all arms had been confiscated, wolves and leopards roamed freely, including into people's yards. Mao told the people to bring their precious livestock directly into their homes to protect them from predators. The resultant filth and lack of hygiene led to many diseases and deaths. Mao was ingenious is his ways of killing people.)
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary
Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles ... that we are unable to
think about reality."--Bill Clinton
"Gun registration is not enough."--Janet Reno
"Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the
local police authority. Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew's possession will
be forfeited to the government without compensation ... Whoever willfully or
negligently violates the provisions ... will be punished with imprisonment and a
fine."--Nazi law, 1938
Never forget, folks, this debate in America over "gun control" is not about guns, it is forever, and only, about control. Please...please...look at the history of the left since the French Revolution. Their aim is totalitarian control! It is no different--NO DIFFERENT!!--in the American left! This is the crucial issue that absolutely must be understood, but so few people do. If we think Barack Obama is different from Joseph Stalin just because Obama is an "American", then we are fools of the highest order. It has nothing to do with country, and everything to do with ideology. When it comes time to put guns to the back of people's necks, they don't want the people shooting back.
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."--Adolf Hitler
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."--Benjamin Franklin