What Did The Founding Fathers REALLY Have To Say About Gun Control?

By BA Staff

The recent debates over the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have raised many questions. But when the amendment says, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” it’s not ending the discussion there.

The Founding Fathers had much more to say outside of the amendment, especially Thomas Jefferson. Here’s some of their best lines collected by Buckeye Firearms Association:

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…”
– George Washington

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.”
– George Mason

“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They 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 …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms