Who is John Galt?

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Nov 112009

Found this “Who is John Galt?” pic at Economic Way of Thinking, including a story behind it.

The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner. Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session (February 1982)
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Ayn Rand
In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson
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Credibility is like virginity. Once you lose it, you can never get it back. Unknown
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