Desarmamento no mundo
# Desarmamento no mundo

Desarmamento é uma política contemporânea de se controlar a violência através da intervenção do Estado.
       - If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government…
          – Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist (#28) .
       - The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.
          –Noah Webster, “An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (1787) in Pamplets on the Constitution of the United States (P.Ford, 1888)
       - The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
          –Samuel Adams, debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87.
       - Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
          – Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot, Debates at 386.
       - The right of the people to keep and bear…arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country…
          – James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434 (8 de junho de 1789).
       - The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
          – Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-B.
       - The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or the state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People.
          – Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 de fevereiro de 1788.
       - If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg. Self-defence … is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
          - Mahatma Gandhi
       - If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg.
          - Dalai Lama -