"... in all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much
each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry
arms -- and these the best and the sharpest -- for his own protection in
case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and
the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur."
-- James Paterson, Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the
Laws of England Relating to the Security of the Person, (London, 1877),
Vol. 1, p. 441; quoted in Joyce Malcolm, To Keep and Bear Arms. The
Origins of an Anglo-American Right (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1994), pp. 169-170.
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