When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
To disarm the people is the most effective way to enslave them.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined...