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This article is from the talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ, by Ken Barnes (kebarnes@cc.memphis.edu) with numerous contributions by others.

2. Constitutional issues in the United States (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)

"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing
degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our
own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms
in our own possession and under our own direction, and having
them under the management of Congress? If our defence be
the_real_object of having those arms, in whose hands can they
be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as
in our own hands?"
-=(Patrick Henry, in_Debates in the Several State
Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,"
Jonathan Elliot, ed. 1836, v.3 p.168)=-

 

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