Laws that forbid the carrying of
arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit
crimes . . . . Such laws make things
worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to
encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
greater confidence than an armed man.
. . . Cesare Beccaria
On Crimes and Punishment
Quoted by Thomas Jefferson
in
Commonplace Book
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