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Certainly One Of The Chief Guarantees Of Freedom Under Any Government, No Matter How Popular And Respected, Is The Right Of Citizens To Keep And Bear Arms. This Is Not To Say That Firearms Should Not Be Very Carefully Used And That Definite Safety Rules Of Precaution Should Not Be Taught And Enforced. But The Right Of Citizens To Bear Arms Is Just One More Guarantee Against Arbitrary Government, And One More Safeguard Against Tyranny Which Now Appears Remote In America, But Which Historically Has Proved To Be Always Possible.

Profit And Morality Are A Hard Combination To Beat.

My Friends, To Those Who Say That We Are Rushing This Issue Of Civil Rights, I Say To Them We Are 172 Years Late. To Those Who Say That This Civil-rights Program Is An Infringement On States’ Rights, I Say This: The Time Has Arrived In America For The Democratic Party To Get Out Of The Shadow Of States' Rights And To Walk Forthrightly Into The Bright Sunshine Of Human Rights.

There Can Be No Compromise On The Right Of Personal Security; There Can Be No Compromise On Securing Of Human Rights.

The Right Of Citizens To Bear Arms Is Just One Guarantee Against Arbitrary Government, One More Safeguard Against The Tyranny Which Now Appears Remote In America, But Which Historically Has Proved To Be Always Possible.