Tag Archive: Thomas Jefferson
Bryan W. White
June 16, 2014
Quote Check Attributed to Thomas Jefferson: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … only disarm those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes … Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they are serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence…
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Bryan W. White
December 21, 2012
Attributed to Thomas Jefferson on Twitter: “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.” Attributed to Benjamin Franklin on Twitter: “Never trust a government that doesn’t trust its own citizens with guns.” A massacre at a Connecticut elementary school last week has led to a great deal of news about gun control proposals along…
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