Friday, July 12, 2013
Quote De Jour
"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.
Jefferson's "Commonplace Book,"1774_1776, quoting from On Crimes and
Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764
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