Quotes of the Week

"Okay, from this point forward I'm going to assume that anyone who suggests gun control as a viable solution is a non-serious person, prone to magical thinking and a willful ignorance of the facts."

--Breda

"It's better to have a knife and not need one than to need a knife and NOT have one"

--My Dad (I feel the same about guns)

“By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia’, the ‘security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms’, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason, I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.”

--JFK

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

--Thomas Jefferson