2nd Amendment: William Seward Burroughs II (5Feb14 - 2Aug97)

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take guns away from the people who didn't do it.  I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."

-- William S. Burroughs, Grand Street, no. 37 (1992). The War Universe

http://wordsofthesentient.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/disarm-the-innocent-william-burroughs/

"A functioning police state needs no police."

-- William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959) From the chapter entitled "Benway", p. 31

There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare.  Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission.  Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

-- William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night (1981)

Captain Mission and the liberal revolution.

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Elián taken by Feds - Remember 'Ruby Ridge' and Waco.

Clint Eastwood -- "At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time?  Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?  At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain.  Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms?  What kind of mentality does that?"

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View more "American Values" & Founding Fathers' quotes at http://harrold.org/quotes

For almost a century following the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the intended meaning and application of the Second Amendment drew less interest than it does in modern times.  "Neither of the two modern theories that have defined public debate over the right to bear arms is faithful to the original understanding of this provision of the Bill of Rights." 

^{a b} Cornell, Saul (2006). A Well-Regulatad Militia — The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-19-514786-5

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