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“When only cops have guns, it’s a police state.” — Robert Heinlein.

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” — Mahatma Gandhi.

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.” — Adolf Hitler, 1942.

“Every Communist must grasp the truth (that) political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” — Mao Tse-tung