Elbert Hubbard:

• "So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs."

Oliver Wendell Holmes:

• "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins."

Adin Ballou:

• "How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?"

Scott Adams:

• "I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string."

George Bernard Shaw:

• "And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand."
• "It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind."

Josef de Maistre:

• "Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing."

Cesar Chavez:

• "In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence."

Friedrich Nietzsche:

• "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."

Press Secretary C.J. Cregg, The West Wing:

• "There were 36 homicides last night, 480 sexual assaults, 3411 robberies, 3685 aggravated assaults, all at gun point. And if anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I only remind you that the President of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world."