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| Meet the newest addition to my "close at hand" home defense... 7 shell capacity of 12 Gauge Double Ought Buck Shot. |
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| Bedroom Arsenal: .308 Win. (Proven to 1000 yards), 12 Gauge Pump (close range), AR-15 (Mid-Range), .40 S&W (short range), 2 High Intensity Flash lights. |
“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” – Ben Franklin, 1759
“I like gun control. If there’s a gun around I want to be in control of it.” -Clint Eastwood
" … the right to defend one’s home and one’s person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.” – Martin Luther King
”One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”
~Thomas Jefferson
”The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
~Alexander Hamilton
”The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.”
~James Earl Jones
”Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.”
- Unknown
”Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.”
~Lord Baden-Powell
”To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
~George Washington
”An armed society is a polite society.”
~Robert Heinlein
”When seconds count between living or dying, the police are only minutes away.”
~Phillip Van Cleave
“There’s no question that weapons in the hands of the public have prevented acts of terror or stopped them.”
~Israeli Police Inspector General Shlomo Aharonisky
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
-- Alexander Hamilton
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest.
-- From the Declaration of the Continental Congress, July 1775
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
-- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court
"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
-- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
-- Hitler, April 11 1942
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power."
-- Yoshimi Ishikawa
