"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.... 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
proven to be always possible."
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
(1911-1978) US Vice-President, US Senator (D-MN)
Source: "Know Your Lawmakers," Guns magazine, February 1960, p.6
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