To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. - Louis L'Amour

You can make laws against weapons but they will be observed only by those who don't intend to use them anyway. The lawless can always smuggle or steal or even make a gun. By refusing to wear a gun you allow the criminal to operate with impunity.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

A quiet man I was, and not one to provoke a quarrel, but if set upon I would fight back. I do not say this in boasting, for it was as much a part of me as the beating of my heart. It was bred in the blood-line of those from whom I come, and I could not be other than I am.