RSS FeedReagan on Gun control and Government power....
Posted on Monday, April 23, 2007 at 12:09 PM by Robby Roberts
I'll Let the Gipper speak for me today...
“There are those in America
today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their
security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in
the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed
to control crime and violence with the means given it by the
Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the
Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their
arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection
from what has always been the chief source of despotism—government. Lord
Acton said power corrupts. Surely then, if this is true, the more power
we give the government the more corrupt it will become. And if we give
it the power to confiscate our arms we also give up the ultimate means
to combat that corrupt power. In doing so we can only assure that we
will eventually be totally subject to it.”
--
Ronald Reagan
