Front Sight, Press

“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages

for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from

men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no

remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying

of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are

neither inclined nor determined to commit crime.”

–Cesare Beccaria, quoted by Thomas Jefferson