Thread: Potential Ban/Brady Bill part deux?

Quotes by Jefferson are revered mainly because he is saying what the person quoting wants to hear. If another founding father believed in high taxes or for guns to be locked up except upon invasion or whatever they wouldn't be quoted nearly as often.


Most of these quotes were posted on the "Founding Fathers Forum" in 1788 ok so they didn't really have a forum like we do so they posted in the papers of the day... These are just a few, I can go on for days...



“Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American…[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”

Tenche Coxe


“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.”

George Mason

To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.”

John Adams

“[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


“And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms…”

Sam Adams


“The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.”

Zachariah Johnson





I think this one right here bears repeating !!!!!

Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American