Don Kates quotes
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“...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents.”
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“The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national defense; and (3) preservation of individual liberty...”
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“A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success of any regulation. If gun ownership were prohibited, organized crime would step in to provide the firearms that will continue to be procured with criminal intent.”
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“A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.”
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“Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?”
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“The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so.”
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“Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.”
-- Don Kates
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Source : 'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'
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Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press
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“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”
Source : Quoted in James Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 7th ed. (1858)
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“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”
Source : Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50
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“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
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“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
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Source : Abdus Salam, H. R. Dalafi (1994). “Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries”, p.139, World Scientific
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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
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