Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

'You are one of the most rational activists I've seen. Another issue related to self defense, could we hear your thoughts on gun control?' Little does he know!

...[T]he Normans, with the usual policy of conquerors, were jealous of permitting to the vanquished Saxons the possession or the use of swords and spears. These circumstances rendered the assistance of the Saxons far from being so formidable to the besieged as the strength of the men themselves, their superior numbers, and the animation inspired by a just cause, might otherwise well have made them.