Gun Control

I was going to post my thoughts on Clayton Ruby’s opinion piece on the Globe and Mail's editorial page yesterday but Let It Bleed beat me too it.

All there is left to do is ponder these words of wisdom found on Kim du Toit's site:

"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty." --Adolf Hitler (H.R. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talks 1941-1944)

"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

"No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 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.