4 Quotes by Don Kates

A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the “universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims.” That is not a universal judgment today.

Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire – So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?

The ‘militia’ was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so...

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.