My, how things have changed...
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-- Karl T. Frederick, head of the National Rifle Association in 1934
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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Jan 15th, 2013
My, how things have changed...
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"I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses."
-- Karl T. Frederick, head of the National Rifle Association in 1934
My, how things have changed...
-- Karl T. Frederick, head of the National Rifle Association in 1934
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How about another quote from Mr. Frederick, from the same testimony before congress about the national firearms act. .
ReplyDelete"You have put your finger on it. My general objections to most of the regulatory provisions are proposed with that in view. I am just as much against the gangster as any man. I am just as much interested in seeing him suppressed, but I do not believe that we should burn down the barn in order to destroy the rats. I am in favor of some more skillful method of getting the rats without destroying the barn. In my opinion, most of the proposals the regulation of firearms, although ostensibly and properly aimed at the crook, do not reach the crook at all, but they do reach the honest. man. In my opinion, the forces which are opposed to crime consist of two general bodies; one is the organized police and the second is the unorganized victims, the great mass of unorganized law-abiding citizens, and if you destroy the effective opposition of either one of those, you are inevitably going to increase crime, because as you destroy the forces of resistance to the human body to disease, you are going to increase disease. So, by destroying the resistance of any body which is opposed to crime, you are going to increase crime. I think we should be careful in considering the actual operation of regulatory measures to make sure that they do not hamstring the law-abiding citizen in his opposition to the crook."