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title: "2 Disarmed Citizenry Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-haidt/conservatives-tend-to-see-the-world-more-in-terms-of-good-versus-evil/)

[Jonathan Haidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-haidt/)

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> [One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-cooper/one-cannot-legislate-the-maniacs-off-the-street-these-maniacs-can/)

[Jeff Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-cooper/)

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