Arms Quote by Lord Dunsany

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with…

— Cesare Beccaria

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make…

— Aristotle

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

— Ovid

I don't think the public want to see loads and loads of firearms officers everywhere, what they do want to know is that we…

— Cressida Dick

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

— John Adams

Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to…

— Radley Balko

“Other developed nations don’t have this problem. They have commonsense laws to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Arming domestic police forces with paramilitary weaponry will ensure their systematic use even in the absence of a terrorist attack on US soil; they…

— Glenn Greenwald

Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there's reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm.

— Eric Adams

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

— Thomas Jefferson

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.

— Don Kates

We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use…

— John Steinbeck