Wiser words were never spoken: Jon Stewart on gun control

[Howzit]

Jon Stewart summed up the gun control debate by uttering these words:

We end up enforcing laws enforcing everyone to live by rules that only attempt to prevent the last thing that was done by the least controllable among us.

See the whole thing here: [url]http://www.yaliberty.org/posts/jon-stewart-on-why-1st-and-2nd-amendment-violating-bans-arent-the-response-we-should-have-to-t[/url]

[gejohnston]

1. Kind of a modern Cesare Beccaria

" false is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousands 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 those only who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Beccaria

[DreamGypsy]

2. "One Arizona shop owner...

...told NBC News that his Glock sales doubled this week."

Which causes Jon Stewart to sum up with:

"or we could go the other way".

Touche' - whoops, that violates federal epee control, pay $5 and go back 3 squares.



Wise words are few....................................and.......................far................................between.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. Not wiser but the Websters said:

Naoh:

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive."

Daniel:

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Great thread. nt