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The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Cesare Beccaria A.K.A Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana (March
15, 1738 – November 28, 1794) was an Italian jurist, philosopher and politician
best known for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned
torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of
penology.
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