Saturday, March 13, 2004
Some quotes on the whole gun control issue.
Some scary:
"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees."
-President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
Some interesting:
"Gun Control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety Locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins."
-Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Mafia turncoat, asked about gun control in an interview in Vanity Fair
And some that surprised me:
"...Christian reflection has sought a fuller and deeper understanding of what God's commandment prohibits and prescribes. There are in fact situations in which values proposed by God's Law seem to involve a genuine paradox. This happens for example in the case of legitimate defense, in which the right to protect one's own life and the duty not to harm someone else's life are difficult to reconcile in practice. Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defense."
-Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 1995
A whole bunch more from Aristotle to Rosie O'Donnell to Malcolm X, stating both views of this always hot topic can be found at the following link:
Link
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Some scary:
"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees."
-President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
Some interesting:
"Gun Control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety Locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins."
-Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Mafia turncoat, asked about gun control in an interview in Vanity Fair
And some that surprised me:
"...Christian reflection has sought a fuller and deeper understanding of what God's commandment prohibits and prescribes. There are in fact situations in which values proposed by God's Law seem to involve a genuine paradox. This happens for example in the case of legitimate defense, in which the right to protect one's own life and the duty not to harm someone else's life are difficult to reconcile in practice. Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defense."
-Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 1995
A whole bunch more from Aristotle to Rosie O'Donnell to Malcolm X, stating both views of this always hot topic can be found at the following link:
Link
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