Wisdom from TJ

"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." -- Thomas Jefferson

"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." -- Thomas Jefferson, Author of The Declaration of
Independence, and Third President of the United States

Our rulers can have no authority over [our] natural rights,
only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience
we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable
for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government
extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But
it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are
twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor
breaks my leg.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia Query XVII