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"When I heard on the radio about the massacre in Newtown, Conn., I started to cry. I couldn’t believe that a mass murderer had chosen to kill 6- and 7-year-olds, administrators and teachers in an elementary school."
"How we can allow this to occur, over and over again?"
"While I am no constitutional scholar, it is my understanding that our founding fathers created the Second Amendment to allow our citizens to protect themselves from tyrants and aggressors. We need to admit that the Second Amendment does not apply to modern-day America and that the greater threat comes from those who use the Second Amendment as an excuse for the proliferation of handguns and assault weapons. Gun ownership should be a privilege, not a right." ... |
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[The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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