Fake gun quotes

[BTR]

I thought I'd post this again. My sources:
http://www.guncite.com/gcbogus.html http://www.saf.org/BogusQuotesFounders.html

Real quotes: http://www.saf.org/quotessaf.html


"This year* will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"

---Falsely attributed to Adolf Hitler, "Abschied vom Hessenland!" ["Farewell to Hessia!"], ['Berlin Daily' (Loose English Translation)], April 15th, 1935, Page 3 Article 2, Einleitung Von Eberhard Beckmann [Introduction by Eberhard Beckmann].


"The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace."

---Falsely attributed to Janet Reno, then-state attorney for Dade County, speech to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida B'nai B'rith gathering, ca.1991.


"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us are totally disarmed."

---Falsely (hilariously?) attributed to Sarah Brady of Handgun Control, Inc. supposedly in The American Educator, published by the American Federation of Teachers (or alternatively, attributed to a speech to AARP, late 1991)

The HCI "Five year plan" is also bogus.

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon, and citizen's firearms are indelibly related. From the moment the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this land knows firearms, and more than 99 99/100 percent of them by their silence indicate they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. When firearms, go all goes; we need them every hour."</I>

-Falsely attributed to George Washington


"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

- Falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson

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[Dave D]

There have been some mis quotes bantered around. Here are some verified ones from the Second Ammendment Primer:
Thomas Jefferson: "On every question of construction let us carry ourselves back to the time when the constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning can be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one which was passed"

Thomas Jefferson: "What country can preserve it[]s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people reserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms, the remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them"

George Mason: "To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to enslave them"
"the British Parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith] who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that was the most effectual way to enslave them; but they should not do it openly; but to weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia"

Adolf Hitler: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall"

Hubert H Humphrey: "The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has always proved to be possible"

 

[oberkommando]

BTR
FAKE GUNS 1 Semi automatic assault rifle.
2 Saturday night special (or do they mean "Niggertown saturday night suicide special"?)I doubt that the liberal media will quote where their label came from.
3 Junk gun, I belive that this includes the freedom arms casull, I think the price would dictate another adjetive.
4 AK-47 and its 30 round bannana CLIP. Never thought you could feed an AK from the top. Getting hungry for a fruit salad gotta go.

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[BTR]

I've read that the Hubert H Humphrey quote is disputed. His museum says they have no record of the statement. I have no idea, I've never heard of him, except for that quote.