by David Yamane | Feb 6, 2021 | gunpowder, Guns, Quote of the Day, Thomas Jefferson
Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile death, bodily strength, like beauty, good humor, politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground...
by David Yamane | Dec 15, 2020 | Books, france, Guns, militia, Quote of the Day
Louis XIV in 1864 by Hyacinthe Rigaud, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The disarming of the militia was part of the monarchy’s long effort to disarm its subjects, especially its potentially troublesome ones. . . . In the interest of public order, minority groups...
by David Yamane | Sep 12, 2019 | Law, Personal Protection, Quote of the Day
There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which...
