“Laws 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 to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
– Cesare Beccaria’s Essay on Crimes and Punishments (although quite often attributed to Thomas Jefferson who copied this passage for his own work “Legal Commonplace Book”)
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/laws-forbid-carrying-armsquotation
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By: AL Letcher on December 23, 2012
at 7:29 pm