Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.