Re: Handgun ban in U.S. capital could reach Supreme Court

>> "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.  They are left in
>> full possession of them."
>> -Zachariah Johnson, 3 Elliot, Debates at 646
>>
>> "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
>> -Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson
>> Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
>>
>> "The right of the people to keep and bear...arms shall not be
>> infringed.  A well regulated militia, composed of the people, trained
>> to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country..."
>> -James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434 (June 8, 1789)
>>
>> "The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to
>> prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens,
>> from keeping their own arms."
>> -Samuel Adams, debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the
>>  Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87


Good Quotes!