Quotes on freedom and the RKBA

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." - Daniel Webster

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - S. Freud

"As a card-carrying member of the liberal media, producing this piece was an eye opening experience. I have to admit that I saw guns as inherently evil, violence begets violence, and so on. I have learned, however, that in trained hands, just the presence of a gun can be a real 'man stopper.' I am sorry that women have had to resort to this, but wishing it wasn’t so won’t make it any safer out there." - Jill Fieldstein, CBS producer 29 April 1993.

"You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." - Isoroku Yamamoto, Marshal Admiral, IJN

[jimmy the one]

1. bogus quotes - you'd think she'd learn

dscntnt at it again: "You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." - Isoroku Yamamoto, Marshal Admiral, IJN

this quote is unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus, even though it has been repeated thousands of times in various Internet postings. There is no record of the commander in chief of Japan’s wartime fleet ever saying it.
Prof. Goldstein: I have never seen it in writing. It has been attributed to the Prange files [the files of the late Gordon W. Prange, chief historian on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur] but no one had ever seen it or cited it from where they got it. Some people say that it came from our work but I never said it. … As of today it is bogus until someone can cite when and where. http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/misquoting-yamamoto/

dscntnt citing freud: A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.

This is not a statement that appears in any translation of any of Freud's works. It is a paraphrase of a statement from the essay "Guns, Murders, and the Constitution" (February 1990) by {GUN GURU} Don B. Kates, Jr. where Kates summarizes his views of passages in Dreams in Folklore (1958) by Freud and David E. Oppenheim while disputing statements by Emmanuel Tanay ..
Due to misreading of this essay and its citations, this paraphrase of an opinion about Freud's ideas has been wrongly attributed to Freud himself,
One of the statements by Freud which Kates summarized from in Dreams in Folklore (1958): "The representation of the penis as a weapon, cutting knife, dagger etc., is familiar to us from the anxiety dreams of abstinent women in particular and also lies at the root of numerous phobias in neurotic people." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

[sarisataka]

2. Interesting and maybe revealing?

The representation of the penis as a weapon... also lies at the root of numerous phobias in neurotic people."

I wonder if that is logically transitive. It seems it would be true.

[Eleanors38]

4. Yes, and far more broadly-based in terms of phobia. Thanks, Jimmy.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. re: "...you'd think she'd learn"

She who? Whacho talkin' 'bout, Willis?

[stone space]

5. From our President

President Obama Makes a Statement on the Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut



The White House

Published on Dec 14, 2012

President Obama delivers a statement on today's shooting at a school in Newtown, Connecticut. December 14, 2012.

[stone space]

6. More from our President

President Obama Speaks at Newtown High School



The White House

Published on Dec 17, 2012

President Obama delivers remarks at an interfaith prayer vigil for the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. December 17, 2012.