"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."
Thomas Jefferson
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India,
history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation
of arms, as the blackest."