Bored Friday Night Quotes...Tonight:Guns

[fgarvb1]

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."

By: Thomas Jefferson

 

[BotanyBoy]

 

[Sean]

Go out and buy the gun that is fucking at massacring children?

 

[fgarvb1]

“The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.”

By: Patrick Henry

Context: Speech at the Virginia Ratification Convention

 

[unregistered]

 

[Squibbs]

You'll shoot your eye out.

 

[fgarvb1]

Go out and buy the gun that is fucking at massacring children?

A gun is an object it can do nothing on it's own...well, maybe rust.

 

[fgarvb1]

"A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies."



By: George Washington

Context: First Annual Message to Congress

 

[fgarvb1]

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

By: Thomas Jefferson

Context: Quoted by Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book

 

[fgarvb1]

Back in the day...

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States"

By: Noah Webster

Context: An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution

 

[Squibbs]

Any last words?

 

[fgarvb1]

"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation."



By: Gouverneur Morris
Context: Unknown

 

[Squibbs]

I hate you Mom!

-Adam Lanza

 

[fgarvb1]

I'm throwing this on in just because.

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."



By: John Adams

Context: Address to the Military

 

[fgarvb1]

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."

By: James Madison

Context: Federalist No. 48

 

[fgarvb1]

"We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles. The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."

By: Thomas Jefferson
Context: Letter to John Cartwright

 

[fgarvb1]

Your turn.

Go to work you lazy fuckers!

 

[BotanyBoy]

Go out and buy the gun that is fucking at massacring children?

Got 5 of them.....

Dozens of high capacity magazines for them too...10mm holds 17 fucking rounds +1 in the chanber...HA! talk about OP hand cannon....QQ some more sean.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Kill Kill Kill with the cold blue steel...make the grass grow real green.

 

[Squibbs]

I didn't see him standing there


-Dick Cheney

 

[hogjack]

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."

By: Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson beat slave boys.

His weapon of choice was a whip.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I didn't see him standing there


-Dick Cheney

 

[fgarvb1]

Thomas Jefferson beat slave boys.

His weapon of choice was a whip.

I would think If you go around beating people with a whip you had better carry a gun!

(this isn't one of those BDSM post, is it?)

 

[hogjack]

I would think If you go around beating people with a whip you had better carry a gun!

(this isn't one of those BDSM post, is it?)

Thomas Jefferson carried two six-shooters along with an 8-foot-long whip.

He was the Indiana Jones of Virginia slaveholders.

 

[fgarvb1]

Thomas Jefferson carried two six-shooters along with an 8-foot-long whip.

He was the Indiana Jones of Virginia slaveholders.

Six shooters?

Do you mean "Pepper Boxes"? The multi barreled pistols?

Because six shooters came along some years later...