It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People have a right to be able to bear arms.
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.
I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.
It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.
A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
Definitely, I am not advocating an arms race.