Via DP at Wasted Electrons

“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 (1764) — Quoting 18th Century criminologist Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and Punishment

Further proof that they knew what they were doing all those years ago and people of the Brady’s ilk are nothing more than collectivist fraidy-cats who project a distrust of themselves upon everyone else.