Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Amendment 13
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
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