Saturday, January 24, 2009

I quote...

“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.”


-Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment, quoted by Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book, 1774-1776

2 comments:

Ella said...

Jen, you are so right. The guys who are going to enact a crime are going to find the ways to get guns...and then everyone else is left vulnerable

Too bad the liberals don't get this.

The Marchioness said...

Ha! I sent you that.