Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The meaning of the Second Amendment (One Perspective) [View all]jimmy the one
(2,714 posts)monticello: The following quotation is sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson:
"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 prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one."
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/laws-forbid-carrying-armsquotation#_note-1
This is not something Jefferson wrote, but rather comes from a passage he included in his "Legal Commonplace Book." The passage is from Cesare Beccaria's Essay on Crimes and Punishments.[1] It appears in Jefferson's commonplace book as follows:
Jefferson's only notation on this passage was, "False idee di utilità."
Jefferson made no remark as to whether he approved or disapproved what Beccaria wrote.
False Idee di utilita means 'false idea of utility' which is what Beccaria was talking about regarding carrying arms (see link), beccaria supported carrying arms of course, in 1764 in italy moreso speaking of bladed weapons & bows not musquettes or pistols.
You gotta pay closer scrutiny when you cite your 2ndAmendment Mythology Bible, discntnt.
dscntnt: When will the pro-RKBA folks learn that in the art and science of determining the intent behind the 2A that Occam's razor doesn't apply?
Occam's razor usually gives a good shave tho, with a nick here & there.