Taglines

[johnharris]

Many of you have added taglines to your signatures, here are some from the Gun Zone:

An armed man is a Citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the 'phone.

Glock: The original point and click interface.

Gun Control is not about guns; it's about control.

If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?

If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.

Free Men do not ask permission to bear arms.

If you don't know your Rights you don't have any.

Those who trade Liberty for security have neither.

The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.

What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?

The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.

64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

Guns only have two enemies: rust and Liberals.

Know guns, know peace and safety. No guns, no peace nor safety.

You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

911 - Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.

Assault is a behavior, not a device.

Criminals love gun control -- it makes their jobs safer.

If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.

Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.

You only have the Rights you are willing to fight for.

Enforce the "gun control laws" we have, don't make more.

When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.

The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

"...a government of the people, by the people, for the people...."

Gun control is hitting what you aim at.

Those who live by the sword have a fighting chance. [Also: Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.] (from Peter Aguirre)

Blaming a gun for crime is like blaming a fork for Rosie O'Donnell for being FAT! (from Dan Nowakowski)

My Gun? I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. (from Hank Jackson)

Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. (Stephen Wenger's sig.)

Bill of Rights. Void where prohibited by law. (Mark Moritz via the Libertarian Party)

The day they want my guns they'll have to bring theirs. (Charles E Roberts)

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. (by Robert A. Heinlein in 1942's Beyond the Horizon. Suggested by Shannon Shaneyfelt)

How can you praise freedom, and condemn that which gains and preserves it? (Duke Schechter)

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (from Thomas Paine via Lace Pants)

"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." [...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.] (from Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "the Younger," circa 4 BC-65 AD, via Dr. Peter Wilhelm)

"The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." (from 1951's The Weapon Shops of Isher by A. E. van Vogt, also suggested by Dr. Peter Wilhelm)

"Shooting. The only sport endorsed by the Founding Fathers." (suggested by Patrick J. Parsley)

"My wife and my gun: 'til death do us part." (from Lawrence Smith)

"When they come for your guns, give them the ammo first!" ("Boston T. Party" by way of Arizeder Urreiztieta)

[jarhead]

And yet another..."Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my handgun."

[Anonymous]

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." - Gandhi

[f5fstop]

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."
--- Thomas Jefferson

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
--- Thomas Jefferson

"We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed;..."
---Thomas Jefferson

"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
---Thomas Jefferson

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin

"To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character."
---Alexander Hamilton

"The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
---James Madison

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people.... To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.... "
--George Mason

"The Constitution s hall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
--Samuel Adams

"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms...To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike...how to use them."
--Richard Henry Lee

"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed".

Now, two different quote from two different people...do they sound familiar?
"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves," -- Joseph Stalin

...We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy. We're going to beat guns into submission!" -- Rep. (now Sen.) Charles Schumer

[johnharris]

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