Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.