Founder’s Quote Daily: Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 10:41 AM
Basil Ryan in Founder’s Quote Daily, Gun Control, Obama Administration

"”When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, - who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia." --George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788.

 

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