UNTIL WE CAN BAN ALL OF THEM, THEN WE MIGHT AS WELL BAN NONE. U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum, Democrat, Senate Hearings 1993Laws 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 prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790