Locke and Load

"First, criminals don't obey the law. (That's why we call them 'criminals.') Second, no law can repeal the law of supply and demand. If there's money to be made selling something, someone will sell it."

"What's the special risk? As Alex Kozinski, a federal appeals judge and an immigrant from Eastern Europe, warned in 2003, 'the simple truth -- born of experience -- is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.'
'The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do,' Judge Kozinski noted. 'But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.'"

"In 1999 or so, NPR ran a story about an armed gang of about 30 men in Bosnia rounding up all the military-aged men/boys in a village and executing them in their village square. About 300 were killed.
The thought 'it would take a whole lot more than 30 men to kill 300 villagers in an armed society' occurred to me, and I joined the NRA that evening.