A Callous Disregard For The

The Assault Weapons Ban Deals With A Fictional Distinction. You Have Guns That Are Exactly The Same Guns As Are Banned, In Function, That Were Banned Because Of The Way They Look. And You Know, That's The Whole Truth Of This Policy: It's To Make Politicians Look As If They Are Doing Something, When In Point Of Fact, They Are Doing Nothing.

It Is The Absence Of Bars That Makes A Beast Free - But Only The Truth Can Make A Man Free.

From The Time Of The Revolutionary War, When Citizens Stood Forward To Defend Their Liberties Against The Depredations Of Tyranny. All The Way Through Civil War, Through The Great World Wars, This Nation Has Been Defended By The Tradition Of Common Ordinary Folks Who Come From Behind The Plow, Come From The Store-clerking, Come From The Classrooms, And So Forth To Get On The Battlefields - Ordinary Citizens Turned Into Heroes In Defense Of Their Liberty, Because That's The Potential Of Freedom.

I Accept The Republican Nomination For The U.s. Senate, To Represent The State Of Illinois.

The Travesty Of Slavery Wasn't Physical Abuse. It Was The Moral Abuse Of Looking At A Human Being As If They Are An Animal.