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"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms within his own lands or tenements."<ref> Jefferson did NOT say: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government" --that quote is a fake.</ref>- [[Thomas Jefferson]]
"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms within his own lands or tenements."<ref> Jefferson did NOT say: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government" --that quote is a fake.</ref>- [[Thomas Jefferson]]
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." - [[Mahatma Gandhi]]
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." - [[Mahatma Gandhi]]
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent... The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." - Supreme Court Justice [[Louis Brandeis]]
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent... The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." - Supreme Court Justice [[Louis Brandeis]]
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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Gun control]]
* [[Gun control]]